Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman’s Showdown at OpenAI

Sam Altman was in Las Vegas for the largest occasion of the weekend, the Components One race, when he opened the Google Meet hyperlink that will set off a whiplash-inducing company energy battle about the way forward for synthetic intelligence. 

Within the moments earlier than he clicked on the hyperlink in his resort room, the 38-year-old CEO was dwelling a charmed life. Ever since his firm, OpenAI, ushered within the AI age a yr in the past with the discharge of ChatGPT, Altman had been jet setting around the globe assembly with presidents and prime ministers, shaping the worldwide agenda on AI coverage. And he was nearing a fundraising that will worth OpenAI at almost $90 billion, roughly triple what it had been earlier within the yr.