David Remnick
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And just recently it was reported that Microsoft is considering whether to sue OpenAI and Amazon for a deal that seems to go around Microsoft.
Explain what this is all about because it seems like a mess to me.
Andrew, how big is OpenAI?
Does it make a profit?
They certainly had lots and lots and lots of investing.
Where does the money go?
So this is great for the environment.
But that's where the money is.
Everywhere.
I'm going to ask you both this first, Ronan.
I get the sense that we all know what Elon Musk at this point means and what Elon Musk wants.
Sam Altman is more mysterious, it seems to me, Ronan.
What does Sam Altman want?
What's the grand ambition here?
To be the richest man in the world?
At some point he says that he was more interested in power than he is in money.
What's your sense of that?
And I personally— Or he might argue that something happened in the research on AI that—
Made him less alarmist.