OpenAI’s Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Friar, has walked back claims she made in an interview with the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.wsj.com/video/openai-wants-federal-backstop-for-new-investments/4F6C864C-7332-448B-A9B4-66C321E60FE7″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.wsj.com/video/openai-wants-federal-backstop-for-new-investments/4F6C864C-7332-448B-A9B4-66C321E60FE7″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Wall Street Journal. Where she originally said that OpenAI was “looking for an ecosystem,” where various institutions could data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-significant-investments-raise-more-questions-than-answers-ceo-sam-altman-remains-tight-lipped-about-how-the-company-will-deliver” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-significant-investments-raise-more-questions-than-answers-ceo-sam-altman-remains-tight-lipped-about-how-the-company-will-deliver”>back OpenAI through financing arrangements, like providing a “guarantee,” she’s now said that wasn’t the intention. Instead, Friar says the company wants the US government to “play its part,” in maintaining industrial capacity, she said in data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-friar_openai-wants-federal-backstop-for-new-investments-activity-7392049356012507136-wAV7/#” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-friar_openai-wants-federal-backstop-for-new-investments-activity-7392049356012507136-wAV7/#” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>a post on LinkedIn.
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