Business Insider1 hour agoA glimpse into Sam Altman's 2-hour-long bid to look like the saner, less chaotic foil to Elon Muskverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Kwan Wei Kevin TanSam Altman is warring with Elon Musk. It's unclear how their legal battle will pan out just yet, but if his recent interview with podcaster Lex Fridman is anything to go by, Altman may just be winning the PR game. The OpenAI chief gave a close to two-hour-long interview on Fridman's podcast, which …
Business Insider1 hour agoMy dad is billionaire Steve Ballmer. Here's what it was like growing up rich — and being kind of ashamed of it.verified_publisherBusiness Insider - As told to Jane ZhangThis as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 29-year-old Pete Ballmer, a standup comedian living in San Francisco and one of the sons of billionaire and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. It has been edited for length and clarity. Up until I was in late elementary school, my …
Business Insider1 hour agoThe superyacht world is speculating that Mark Zuckerberg just bought this 118-meter boatverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Madeline BergIn the world of superyachts, privacy is the most valuable asset. It can be next to impossible to discern the details of a superyacht transaction — and that's particularly true if the vessel in question is worth nine figures. Yet some in the boat blogging world are speculating that Meta CEO Mark …
Business Insider3 hours agoSam Altman says he doesn't think the world 'needs another copy of Google' because 'that's boring'verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Kwan Wei Kevin TanOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he isn't interested in beating Google in the search business. "I find that boring. I mean, if the question is if we can build a better search engine than Google or whatever, then sure, we should go, people should use the better product," Altman told podcaster Lex Fridman …
Business Insider3 hours agoSam Altman says he could do with more collaboration and less of Elon Musk tweeting a silver medal at Jeff Bezos to flex his wealthverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Kwan Wei Kevin TanSam Altman didn't like it when Elon Musk made fun of Jeff Bezos after surpassing Bezos as the world's richest person in 2021. During an interview that aired Monday, podcaster Lex Fridman told Altman that AI's big players must collaborate to achieve artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But Altman …
Business Insider6 hours agoSam Altman says he thought Elon Musk would have 'more empathy' for OpenAI's big dreams because it 'wasn't that long ago Elon was crazily talking about launching rockets'verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Kwan Wei Kevin TanOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he thought his former cofounder Elon Musk would have had "more empathy" for the AI company's huge ambitions. "It wasn't that long ago Elon was crazily talking about launching rockets when people were laughing at that thought, so I think he'd have more empathy for this," …