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Oklo Inc: Sam Altman-backed Oklo signs power agreement with data centre operator

Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup Oklo said on Wednesday it has signed a non-binding agreement to provide power to Las Vegas-based data centre operator Switch. Under…

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Sam Altman recently teased that AGI could arrive as soon as 2025 and will be achievable on existing hardware, with it being possibly made by weaving together OpenAI's large language models(Reuters)
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts this technology will be more ‘significant’ than AGI: Report

OpenAI chief executive officer (CEO) Sam Altman has apparently downplayed the risk associated with artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, he warned that the ‘super intelligence’…

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Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Altman and Brockman, before leaving the company in 2018. Then Microsoft in 2019, invested $14 billion into OpenAI and now holds exclusive rights to commercially license its technology along with a 49% stake in its for-profit subsidiary.(Reuters)
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Elon Musk targets Microsoft in OpenAI lawsuit: ‘Trying to eliminate competitors’

Nov 16, 2024 11:17 AM IST Elon Musk updated his OpenAI lawsuit, now accusing Microsoft as well of attempting to “monopolize the generative AI market.”…

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The AI giant's CEO Sam Altman announced this on Thursday, November 7, 2024, by simply posting the URL on X (Formerly Twitter) without any description or reasoning.(AFP)
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OpenAI buys new domain chat.com for over $15 million, it redirects to ChatGPT

OpenAI has bought the domain chat.com. Clicking on it automatically routes you to the ChatGPT website. The AI giant’s CEO Sam Altman announced this on…

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Kevin Scott, executive vice president of AI and chief technology officer of Microsoft Corp., right, and Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, at the Microsoft Build event in Seattle, Washington, US, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.(Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg)
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‘The best bromance in tech’ is under strain: it’s between OpenAI and Microsoft

Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI called its partnership with Microsoft, “the best bromance in tech,” but this is at risk now as Microsoft tries…

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British-Canadian professor Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physicsfor discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved the way for the artificial intelligence boom.(Reuters)
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Nobel Prize 2024 winner proud of ex-student’s role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI ouster

Oct 10, 2024 09:51 AM IST Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Prize winner, expressed pride in former student Ilya Sutskever’s role in Sam Altman’s dismissal from…

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OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, announced her resignation through an X post that went viral. (File Photo)
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Who is Mira Murati? CTO who resigned from Microsoft-backed OpenAI | Trending

Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer (CTO), announced her resignation from the Microsoft-backed company through an X post. She shared that she is leaving the…

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OpenAI is considering a shift to a for-profit structure, granting CEO Sam Altman a 7% equity stake. This change follows the departure of key executives and aims to align profit generation with its mission of benefiting society. No timeline has been set.(Reuters)
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OpenAI plans to convert to a for-profit company, give Sam Altman 7% stake

Sep 26, 2024 08:24 AM IST OpenAI plans to give CEO Sam Altman a 7% equity stake and transition to a for-profit model. This follows…

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FILE - Sam Altman, right, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and Mira Murati, chief technology officer, appear at OpenAI DevDay, OpenAI's first developer conference, on Nov. 6, 2023 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay, File)(AP)
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Open AI CTO Mira Murati, 2 others resign, CEO Sam Altman reacts | World News

Sep 26, 2024 07:26 AM IST Mira Murati in a written statement posted on X said she has made the difficult decision to leave the…

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Sam Altman shared on 'Life in Seven Songs' how psychedelics changed his perspective, turning him from an anxious person into a calm one. He emphasized a retreat in Mexico as particularly significant and mentioned his occasional psychedelic experiences at Burning Man.(Reuters)
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says doing psychedelics in Mexico changed his life: ‘Made me calm’

Sep 25, 2024 10:21 AM IST Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder, recounted transformative psychedelic experiences noting they helped him overcome anxiety and unhappiness. Sam Altman, OpenAI…

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