Sam Altman, chief govt of OpenAI, is in South Korea to fulfill semiconductor business leaders, notably from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. His go to primarily focuses on exploring potential partnerships for his AI chip manufacturing enterprise that he has been engaged on for some time, experiences Bloomberg, citing unofficial sources with information of the matter.
The pinnacle of OpenAI arrived in Seoul on Thursday. Altman’s goals in South Korea align together with his ambitions for OpenAI typically and AI-specialized {hardware} specifically. His schedule seems packed as he’s set to fulfill executives from a number of Samsung divisions, together with the System LSI unit that designs chips; Samsung Semiconductor, which produces DRAM and 3D NAND reminiscence; and Samsung Foundry, which builds chips below contracts.
The conferences with completely different items of Samsung could point out that Altman is exploring methods to design his AI processors, produce them, after which equip them with reminiscence. From a strategic viewpoint, he goals to deal with the AI processor scarcity concern and help the rising efficiency calls for of OpenAI in pursuit of synthetic normal intelligence (AGI) growth.
Talking of OpenAI’s AGI, there was a report in regards to the firm’s AI discovery referred to as Q* (pronounced as Q-Star) again in November. Q* was mentioned to be a expertise that would profoundly advance AI reasoning, which brings AI nearer to human beings and is, due to this fact, thought of a basic breakthrough within the growth of AGI. In the meantime, it was believed that Q* was a risk to humankind. But, at that time, Q* was ok to unravel mathematical duties at a degree just like that of elementary faculty college students. That mentioned, maybe OpenAI wants extra (probably exponentially extra) computing assets to develop the challenge to a commercially cheap degree after which scale capability to fulfill demand, which is why it wants its chip provide chain. Or maybe OpenAI wants processors completely different from these provided by Nvidia and different off-the-shelf {hardware} suppliers to realize the mentioned objective.
As well as, he’s reportedly set to fulfill the chief govt of SK Hynix, a big maker of reminiscence, and the chairman of SK Group. This South Korean conglomerate owns SK Hynix and runs varied companies, together with chemical substances, power, and telecoms. OpenAI’s Altman might probably collaborate with SK Hynix over HBM reminiscence provide for his AI processors. In the meantime, his pursuits in SK Group might be outdoors his chip enterprise however throughout the OpenAI framework. Earlier this week, the Monetary Instances reported that Sam Altman met with buyers from the United Arab Emirates to debate the monetary backing of his AI processor enterprise and TSMC to debate the manufacturing of chips.