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Sam Altman Unleashed
OpenAI’s Sam Altman's falling away of the facade of fakeness
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One of the greatest pleasures in seeing millennials found and run companies is the final falling away of the facade of fakeness that is expected of all businesspeople. OpenAI’s Sam Altman did not disappoint recently:
Just before the Wall Street Journal report on the $7 trillion fundraising, possibly in response to a request for comment:
we believe the world needs more ai infrastructure--fab capacity, energy, datacenters, etc--than people are currently planning to build.
building massive-scale ai infrastructure, and a resilient supply chain, is crucial to economic competitiveness.
openai will try to help!
— Sam Altman (@sama)
6:17 PM • Feb 7, 2024
Shortly thereafter, in response to his brother, Jack, who had complained of being forever titled “brother of Sam Altman,”
mind your own business and let us cook
— Sam Altman (@sama)
8:25 PM • Feb 9, 2024
In response to why he’s suddenly posting
just a WFH friday and feeling a little bored
— Sam Altman (@sama)
10:54 PM • Feb 9, 2024
How many GPUs can you buy with $7 trillion?
@pbeisel probably a lot of fucking gpus idk why?
— Sam Altman (@sama)
10:58 PM • Feb 9, 2024
Was this a burn or just friendly banter? Alex Wang is the founder and CEO of ScaleAI, which does a lot of the human feedback training for large AI companies. Scale’s revenue tripled last year… off the backs of firms like OpenAI.
this is authoritative, truly no one flies in and out to more parties than you, it looks like a full time job
— Sam Altman (@sama)
9:02 PM • Feb 10, 2024
Alternate uses of trillions
obviously we need the ai to find the aliens bro
— Sam Altman (@sama)
9:29 PM • Feb 10, 2024
More banter with brother Jack
@ me next time
— Sam Altman (@sama)
8:59 PM • Feb 10, 2024
which continued
round is very tight but we have huge respect for you and i think we can look at a .002143% allocation for you if you can decide today, unfortunately we won’t be able to make the data room available
— Sam Altman (@sama)
9:39 PM • Feb 10, 2024
Of course, it was not all play
quite a lot, actually
— Sam Altman (@sama)
9:49 PM • Feb 10, 2024
The inside joke below being that Roon (@tszzl), an OpenAI employee, had disappeared from Twitter for 3 days after a series of angsty adolescent tweets, leaving his 100k+ followers lost
Mr Beast, probably the most famous and richest Youtuber of all time, hijacking the thread to make a plea for funding below
I was thinking, if you get that 7 trillion dollars you could give me like .01% of that and it’d fund my videos for a long time. Thx for considering
— MrBeast (@MrBeast)
5:31 AM • Feb 11, 2024
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