Sam Altman is tired of money questions

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Sam Altman is tired of questions about OpenAI’s money. And this became obvious during a joint interview with Satya Nadella on the Bg2 podcast.

Host Brad Gerstner, founder of Altimeter Capital, raised an uncomfortable topic. According to some data, OpenAI earns about 13 billion dollars a year. Sounds impressive. But the company committed to spend over a trillion dollars on computing infrastructure in the coming decade. The question is logical: where will the money come from?

Altman answered sharply: “First, our revenue is much more than that. Second, Brad, if you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer”. Nadella laughed, and the OpenAI head continued: “Enough already. There are plenty of people who would gladly buy OpenAI shares”.

“Including me,” Gerstner interjected.

But Altman didn’t stop there. He added that critics who “speak with feigned concern about our compute spending” would themselves be happy to buy company shares.

According to him, there are “rare moments” when he wished OpenAI was a public company. “One of those rare cases is when these people write their ridiculous posts like ‘OpenAI is about to go bankrupt’. I’d love to tell them they can just short the stock. And would love to watch them burn on it”.

Either this is really a strong position, or a very good public play. Time will tell who’s right: those who worry about trillion-dollar obligations, or the OpenAI head who offers them to “burn” on bets against the company.

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