Sam Altman news and trends

OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment
artificial intelligence // December 08, 2024

OpenAI could reportedly give Microsoft access to its as-yet-unrealized artificial general intelligence (AGI). As it stands now, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup has a provision that blocks Microsoft from accessing OpenAI’s AGI, or AI that can think and perform tasks at or above the level...

Elon Musk Sues to Stop OpenAI’s For-Profit Transformation
artificial intelligence // December 01, 2024

Elon Musk has reportedly taken legal action to halt OpenAI’s transformation to a for-profit company. The billionaire and his artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI have filed for a preliminary injunction in federal court to halt the conversion, CNBC reported Saturday (Nov. 30). The injunction would...

OpenAI CEO: Computing Capacity Is Slowing Product Rollouts
artificial intelligence // November 03, 2024

OpenAI’s CEO says a dearth of computing capacity is hindering his company’s product rollouts. “All of these models have gotten quite complex,” Sam Altman wrote in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session when asked why OpenAI’s next artificial intelligence (AI) models were taking so...

Report: OpenAI Plans to Restructure and Become For-Profit Benefit Corporation
artificial intelligence // September 25, 2024

OpenAI reportedly plans to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that won’t be controlled by its nonprofit board. Under this plan, the OpenAI nonprofit will own a minority stake in the for-profit company, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 25), citing unnamed sources. The...

Interviews & Exclusives
Altman-Backed Slope’s Bid to Create GPT Business Payments

October 10, 2023
The business-to-business (B2B) payments economy represents a $125 trillion opportunity for the right innovation to unlock. But those trillions of dollars being shuffled around between businesses don’t sit lightly — and their historic weight has served to entrench the way that organizations transact with and pay one another, leading to a host of ingrained habits and […]

Is a Gen AI-Powered Connected Device in the Cards?

September 27, 2023
A holistic user experience considers every aspect of a product. Think about Apple’s iPhone and computer products. By establishing them as hardware platforms running the company’s own proprietary iOS software,...

Is Going for Broke With ChatGPT Bankrupting Sam Altman’s OpenAI? 

August 16, 2023
A promise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is its potential to cut costs. Unfortunately, the realities of the unit economics inherent to building and running foundational AI models might result...

Quick Reads
OpenAI Pitches Its Usefulness to Trump Amid Musk Rivalry

December 15, 2024
There’s a new variable in the Sam Altman/Elon Musk rivalry: President-elect Donald Trump. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Dec. 15), executives at Altman’s OpenAI have been preparing to deal with the next administration, though that process has been made more complicated by Musk’s recent closeness to Trump. According to the report, the artificial […]

OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment

December 08, 2024
OpenAI could reportedly give Microsoft access to its as-yet-unrealized artificial general intelligence (AGI). As it stands now, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup has a provision that blocks Microsoft from accessing...

Elon Musk Sues to Stop OpenAI’s For-Profit Transformation

December 01, 2024
Elon Musk has reportedly taken legal action to halt OpenAI’s transformation to a for-profit company. The billionaire and his artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI have filed for a preliminary injunction...

OpenAI CEO: Computing Capacity Is Slowing Product Rollouts

November 03, 2024
OpenAI’s CEO says a dearth of computing capacity is hindering his company’s product rollouts. “All of these models have gotten quite complex,” Sam Altman wrote in a Reddit Ask Me...