Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Jaden Schaefer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6788 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

And going from $40 billion to $110 billion, like they're proving that they are capable of raising money.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

And this is just the start of the round as well.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

It's open.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

We're going to see a lot more.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

I think the biggest thing that a lot of people are talking about here is the Amazon partnership.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

This is particularly big.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

OpenAI is planning to build an entire new stateful runtime environment for its model on Amazon Bedrock.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

So they're also basically, I think, expanding a lot of their existing AWS agreements.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

They have an additional $100 billion on top of the previously committed $38 billion in compute services, and this is kind of part of the deal.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

OpenAI is going to use at least 2 gigawatts of AWS Tranium compute, and they're also going to develop some custom models to help support Amazon consumer products.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

So Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that this whole collaboration is going to allow developers to run OpenAI-powered services on AWS with some new capabilities that make AI apps and agents a lot more powerful and persistent.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

And there's a bunch of earlier reporting that came out that basically suggested $35 billion of Amazon's investment may be contingent on opening either achieving AGI or completing an IPO by the end of this year.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

So Amazon is, I mean, giving them $50 billion, but it feels like there's these contingencies where money could be clawed back if they don't reach certain milestones, if they don't achieve certain things.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

I mean, achieving AGI by the end of the year, that's a pretty...

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

That's a pretty big gamble.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

And I mean, no one's really defined what AGI is.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

So that's an interesting term to have embedded in there.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

What's interesting to me is that OpenAI actually did confirm that there was some sort of contingency.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

They didn't say exactly what the contingency set was.

AI in Business
OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users

They just said that that additional $35 billion is going to be delivered, quote, in the coming months when certain conditions are met.