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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rumors I have read:<br>
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1) Sam Altman was looking for money from sovereign wealth fund from Saudi Arabia to fund an NVIDIA competitor. And this was one example of him working side gigs not related to the Open AI mission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2) That the energy demands of LLMs on Azure are just too expensive, and the money lost per query is becoming too expensive, even for Microsoft’s hosting of OpenAI.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3) That there was a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence and Sam Altman wouldn’t press the brakes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Pietro Terna <pietro.terna@unito.it><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 2:29 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Open AI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Adobe Garamond Pro",serif"> Dear All,<br>
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can you explain to an old Italian friend the Open AI soap opera or drama?<br>
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Best, Pietro<br>
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<pre>"It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth." Neils Bohr.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>A <a href="https://terna.to.it/breviArticoli.html">https://terna.to.it/breviArticoli.html</a> riporto dei miei brevi articoli su temi di attualità.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Asterischi da Verso Itaca a <a href="https://verso-itaca.it/asterischi-da-verso-itaca/">https://verso-itaca.it/asterischi-da-verso-itaca/</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Home page: <a href="https://terna.to.it">https://terna.to.it</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/@pietroterna">https://twitter.com/@pietroterna</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Mastodon: <a href="https://mastodon.uno/@PietroTerna">https://mastodon.uno/@PietroTerna</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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