OpenAI is considering eventually helping other businesses tap into the data centers and physical infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence, potentially creating a new revenue line that could offset some of the ChatGPT maker’s immense costs.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is in talks to sell $6 billion in shares owned by its current and former employees to investors, in a deal that would value the artificial intelligence company at roughly $500 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.

OpenAI has ballooned in size since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and is expected to triple in revenue to $12.7 billion this year.

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Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAI's flagship model because the San Francisco company has long positioned its technical advancements as a path toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a technology that is supposed to surpass humans at economically valuable work.

OpenAI CFO says undercompute is the company's biggest constraint as the AI firm reports its first-ever $1 billion month.

OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor likens the current AI boom to the dot-com era, cautioning that not all companies will succeed despite the hype and massive investments. He emphasizes that long-term success in AI depends on providing real-world utility,

Artificial marks the first feature that O’Dowd is doing since 2022’s big-budget fantasy, Slumberland. The Tony Award–nominated and Emmy-winning actor most recently created, directed, and starred in the original Sky series Small Town, Big Story and is generating Emmy buzz for his Black Mirror episode “Common People.”

In late 2024, former OpenAI researcher Sucha Balaji, who raised ethical concerns about OpenAI’s use of protected content and alleged copyright violations, was found dead in an apparent suicide, intensifying scrutiny of the company’s internal culture and transparency.