SadaNews – A new report revealed that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is looking to build, fund, or acquire a rocket company to compete with billionaire Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, in the space race.<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal reported that Altman is considering buying or partnering with an existing rocket launch service provider.<\/p>\n
The report noted that Altman’s goal is to support space data centers to operate the next generation of artificial intelligence systems.<\/p>\n
The paper stated that Altman may have already contacted “Stock Space”, at least one rocket company based in Washington, over the summer, and discussions gained momentum in the fall.<\/p>\n
Among the proposals is a series of investments worth billions from OpenAI, which could eventually give the company a controlling stake in the rocket firm.<\/p>\n
The report indicated that these discussions have cooled since then, according to sources close to OpenAI.<\/p>\n
According to the Wall Street Journal, Altman’s contact with the rocket company came at a time when his company is facing scrutiny over its ambitious expansion plans.<\/p>\n
OpenAI entered into new commitments worth billions, although it has not clarified how it will finance the large-scale expansion.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Altman expressed significant concern at the company level after the “ChatGPT” program began to decline against Google’s “Gemini” chat robot; leading OpenAI to postpone other launches and ask employees to redirect their teams to focus on improving its flagship product.<\/p>\n
Altman sees his interest in rockets aligning with the idea that AI’s demand for energy will push computing infrastructure off-planet.<\/p>\n
He has long advocated for the creation of space data centers to harness solar energy in space while avoiding the environmental difficulties on Earth.<\/p>\n
Both Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, share similar ideas.<\/p>\n
Stock Space, which was founded by former Blue Origin engineers, is developing a fully reusable rocket called “Nova”, which reports suggest is comparable to what SpaceX aims to achieve.<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal noted that the proposed partnership would provide Altman with a shortcut opportunity to enter the space launch sector.<\/p>\n
Altman\u2019s talks shed light on the ongoing rivalry between him and Musk. The two co-founded OpenAI in 2015, then clashed over the company’s direction, leading Musk to leave after three years.<\/p>\n
Since then, Musk has launched his own AI company, xAI, while Altman has expanded OpenAI\u2019s ambitions and recently backed projects that compete directly with Musk’s ventures, including a startup focused on brain-computer interfacing.<\/p>\n
Altman hinted at his aspirations in space earlier this year, saying: “I think a lot of the world will eventually be covered by data centers. Maybe we’ll build a large Dyson sphere around the solar system and say: hey, it doesn’t make sense to put this on Earth.” <\/p>\n
Then in June, he wondered: “Should I start a rocket company?” before adding: “I hope humanity can eventually consume a significantly larger amount of energy than we can generate on Earth.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SadaNews – A new report revealed that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is looking to build, fund, or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247,97341,48940,97340],"class_list":["post-178536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space","tag-97341","tag-48940","tag-97340"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}