OpenAI’s incoming head of applications, Fidji Simo, said she sees growing ChatGPT’s customer base to billions of users.“ChatGPT reaches hundreds of millions of people, but fundamentally, AI should change lives for everyone,

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Fedus was part of the team that developed ChatGPT at OpenAI two and a half years ago. He is one of many former OpenAI employees who have decided to start their own companies, capitalizing on the current boom in AI investment.

Now, he’s among the growing group of ex-OpenAI employees seizing on the AI investment boom with startups of their own. Fedus, OpenAI’s former vice president of research for post-training, is raising more than $100 million to launch a company called Periodic Labs that’s focused on AI for material science,

The funds will support Sam Altman-led firm’s next phase of model development and its large-scale data center project, Stargate.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team to achieve a “superintelligence,” machines that are capable of surpassing human capabilities, according to a Bloomberg report.

It’s not surprising, in that context, that Mr. Altman and other OpenAI executives are gently floating the prospect of using advertising after all. In December, Ms. Friar told The Financial Times that OpenAI is considering it,

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that owns and operates ChatGPT, experienced outages on Tuesday into Wednesday. Between the hours of 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Downdetector received dramatics spikes in people reporting the application was down.