OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a fireside chat organized by SoftBank Asia Ventures in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023.
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Leader of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google Several U.S. power and utility companies met at the White House on Thursday to discuss the future of U.S. artificial intelligence energy infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter.
According to people familiar with the matter, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Sam Altman), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Dario Amodei) and Google President Ruth Porat (Ruth Porat) are all attended the conference, which focused on bringing the public and private sectors together to discuss energy use for artificial intelligence, data center capacity, semiconductor manufacturing and grid capacity.
An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC that the company believes building more infrastructure in the United States is critical to the country’s industrial policy and economic future. “We applaud the White House for convening this meeting because it is an endorsement of infrastructure’s priority in creating jobs, helps ensure that the benefits of AI are widely distributed, and ensures that the United States will continue to be at the forefront of AI innovation. .
OpenAI shared its economic impact analysis with Biden-Harris administration officials, including the impact of building large data centers on jobs and gross domestic product in a sample of U.S. states including Wisconsin, California, Texas and Pennsylvania, people familiar with the matter said. The estimated impact on the value told CNBC.
CNN First, the meeting was reported.
White House spokesperson Robyn Patterson told CNBC: “President (Joe) Biden and Vice President (Kamala) Harris are committed to ensuring that data centers are built in the United States while ensuring that the technology is developed responsibly, Thus deepening the United States’ leadership in the field of artificial intelligence.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm also attended Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter.
Participants in the meeting included National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan; Ali Zaidi, National Climate Advisor; Kristine Lucius, Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President; John Podesta John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy. White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed also attended the meeting, according to sources.
Previously, as the industry’s concerns about artificial intelligence safety and ethics grew, OpenAI and Anthropic announced in August that they would let the American Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute test their new model before releasing it to the public.
The institute, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Commerce Department, said in a statement Press release At the time it would have “access to each company’s major new models before and after their public launch.”
The group was formed after the Biden-Harris administration issued the U.S. government’s first-ever executive order on artificial intelligence in October 2023, calling for new safety assessments, equity and labor market impacts of artificial intelligence. Civil rights guidance and research.
OpenAI is reportedly negotiating a funding round that would value the company at Over $150 billion. Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI research executives and employees and was most recently valued at $18.4 billion. Anthropic counts Amazon as a major investor, while OpenAI is heavily backed by Microsoft.
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