OpenAI, Walmart and ChatGPT
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Raking in billions though it may be, OpenAI has also committed to spending over $1 trillion over the next decade (yes, trillion). The company has recently locked in deals for more than 26 gigawatts of computing capacity from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom — infrastructure that’ll cost vastly more than what’s coming in.
Seven nonprofits that have been critical of OpenAI say the behemoth sent them wide-ranging subpoenas as part of its ongoing litigation against Elon Musk.
OpenAI is working on new revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising as part of a five-year plan to make good on the more than $1tn in spending it has pledged to create world-leading artificial intelligence.
OpenAI is seeing the adoption of its tools at lightning speeds. With 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, it could dominate the AI market by 2030.
MW AI data center in Patagonia under Argentina’s RIGI, with leaders touting Stargate Argentina as a regional milestone.
A consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI and Microsoft will acquire Aligned Data Centers from private infrastructure funds managed by Macquarie Asset Management and co‑investors in a deal worth $40 billion.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 4.5, a powerful and affordable AI model offering near-premium performance for free, directly challenging OpenAI in the race to democratize advanced artificial intelligence.
The lawsuit seeks treble damages for businesses who might have been overcharged by OpenAI and Microsoft by ‘an eye-popping 100 to 200 times competitors’ prices.’