Amir Efrati

3 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

By hiring Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to manage OpenAI’s business, CEO Sam Altman can focus on his primary ambition: attaining artificial superintelligence. The term refers to technology that would help humans solve fundamental scientific challenges around energy and physics to become multiplanetary, colonizing other planets and eventually other star systems, according to a person who has heard him speak about it.

4 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

Source: PoliticoOpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Thursday told a U.S. Senate committee that the U.S. government doesn’t need to set standards for how AI should be developed, Politico reported. The comments appear to diverge from Senate testimony two years ago in which he said the government should pass legislation and safety standards to allow the field to continue growing while lowering its potential negative effects.

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

Update: OpenAI confirmed it is hiring Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to oversee some of the company’s divisions in a major leadership restructuring at the artificial intelligence firm. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, confirming an earlier report by The Information, said he would continue overseeing research and infrastructure teams that are core to the company’s AI development, while leaving much of the rest of the company to Simo.

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Amir Efrati

OpenAI’s decision on Monday to change course on its corporate restructuring looks to be a smart business choice. OpenAI has avoided a possible protracted conflict with Delaware—whose attorney general oversees nonprofits registered in the state, like OpenAI and implied she had something to do with the about-face.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Amir Efrati

13 hours agoOpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit organization, after the company initially announced that it planned to convert to a for-profit organization. According to the company, OpenAI’s business wing, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will …