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If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has committed to spending more than $1 trillion to build out AI infrastructure, totaling 26 gigawatts of compute capacity from tech companies including Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, according to the Financial Times‘ calculations. And that’s just over the last month. Recouping these astronomical costs isn’t just OpenAI’s problem, either — vast portions of …

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Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M vaccine research at Oxford • The Register

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M vaccine research at Oxford • The Register

A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK’s Oxford University. Oxford Vaccine Group is leading the project to study the human immune system’s response to serious bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, targeting diseases including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli. Led …

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