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OpenAI, the service behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has shown strong interest in building partnerships with South Korean chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
In response to a Korean reporter’s question about whether the company had any plans to form a semiconductor partnership with a Korean chipmaker during the period, Sam Altman, CEO of the company, said that he has visited South Korea twice in the past six months, and that he has visited South Korea twice in the past six months. He stated that he had a good meeting with SK Hynix. The meeting took place on Wednesday (local time) at our headquarters in San Francisco. Mr. Altman visited South Korea in late February 2024 and met with executives from both Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. This is the first time that he has publicly disclosed his interests to Korean reporters.
The CEO’s unexpected appearance came at an event hosted by the Korean Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Startups focused on promoting cooperation between Korean startups and OpenAI. Mr. Altman held detailed discussions with reporters and startups at the gathering.
When asked about OpenAI’s potential chip manufacturing efforts, Altman emphasized the company’s ambition to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) capable of human-like thinking, learning, reasoning, and problem-solving. Did. Prominent figures in the field such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang predict that his AGI era will arrive within 5-10 years.
The company still appears to have potential for global partnerships. Altman indicated that OpenAI is open to working with established chipmakers such as his Samsung Electronics and his SK hynix, while expressing his intention to minimize AGI development efforts.
Regarding the next version of ChatGPT, GPT-5, Altman expressed confidence in its performance improvements and hinted at advanced inference capabilities without specifying a release date. Industry experts expect significant advances in GPT-5’s inference capabilities, as demonstrated in a recent demonstration featuring a humanoid robot developed in partnership with Figure AI Inc. The robot gave accurate responses, such as handing out an apple when asked for food. By explaining the options.
When asked about the most exciting aspects of the impending AGI era, Altman cited scientific advances, emphasized the potential of AI models to facilitate such discoveries, and hoped that it would lead to sustained long-term economic growth. I think it’s important for.
Altman also expressed concern that AI is learning at a faster pace than human-generated data, and emphasized the need for AI models that can learn efficiently with limited data. However, he predicted that “AI agents” that can understand human speech and perform tasks on behalf of users are still a long way off in terms of network capabilities.
OpenAI is currently one of the world’s largest users of graphics processing units. ChatGPT is used by 100 million people every week, and its AI video generator Sora, scheduled to be released to the public in late 2024, is expected to require significantly more computing power than ChatGPT. It has been.
Written by Lee Deok-joo and Jang Yi-chun
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