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An idea proposed by Sam Altman as a potential evolution of UBI, where every individual receives a slice of future AI compute (e.g., GPT-7) which they can use, resell, or donate.

A global music superstar, named the best CEO of 2023 by Jason Calacanis for her massive economic impact through her tour, merchandise, and direct-to-theater movie release.

The governing body of OpenAI, which is structured as a nonprofit. This board was responsible for the decision to fire Sam Altman, citing a need to uphold the mission of safe AGI.

A chaotic week-long event where OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman, leading to a massive employee backlash that resulted in his reinstatement and a restructuring of the board.

OpenAI's video generation model, constrained by massive compute requirements.

Meta's latest open-source large language model, which is noted for its high performance, speed, and for being less 'preachy' than competitors like ChatGPT 4.

A central debate in the AI industry regarding whether AI models should be publicly available (open source) or proprietary (closed source). OpenAI follows a closed-source approach for its frontier models.

Specialized silicon designed to run artificial intelligence workloads more efficiently.

A powerful large language model trained by OpenAI, noted for its significant upfront pre-training costs.

Jason Calacanis's former human-powered search engine, which he cites as an early, pre-AI attempt to provide direct answers, similar to what Perplexity and Google are now doing.

A business model that provides executive assistant and operations support remotely, as exemplified by Chamath's new investment, Athena.

A country in Southeast Asia that is the source of knowledge workers for the virtual EA service company, Athena.