OpenAI is arguably the most sought-after AI lab in the world, though tech leaders like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have attributed its immense success in the AI space to a 2-year runway for building and developing ChatGPT uncontested. Perhaps more interestingly, we recently learned that Bill Gates was against Microsoft making a $1 billion bet on the ChatGPT maker in 2019. “You’re going to burn this billion dollars,” Gates warned Satya Nadella.
However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that

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