Episode Details

Suddenly nobody wants to be on OpenAI’s board, even as observers. I’ll tell you why. More on how AI has thrown everybody’s carbon neutral plans into chaos. A monster raise in the AI and robotics space. And a16z has found a way to get chips into the hands of their AI startups.

Links:

• Microsoft and Apple drop OpenAI seats amid antitrust scrutiny (FT)
• Microsoft gives up observer seat on OpenAI board (Axios)
• Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Says It Reached a Climate Goal Seven Years Early (NYTimes)
• Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new ‘Standard’ tier (The Verge)
• This $1.5 Billion AI Company Is Building A ‘General Purpose Brain’ For Robots (Forbes)
• Andreessen Horowitz Is Building a Stash of More Than 20,000 GPUs to Win AI Deals (The Information)

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