The Pentagon deal capped a remarkable 24 hours for OpenAI. Earlier Friday, the company announced it had closed $110 billion in new fundin g at an $840 billion post-money valuation, the largest private financing in history according to Crunchbase data.

Sam Altman is trying to steer OpenAI through the most volatile stretch of the artificial intelligence boom, racing to keep his company relevant as rivals close the gap and the market shifts beneath his feet. The contest is no longer just about having the ...

OpenAI is getting squeezed from every direction, and the pressure is beginning to show. Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Thursday, Sam Altman told CNBC that Chinese tech firms’ progress across the AI stack is “remarkable.

OpenAI's Sam Altman calls SpaceX's ambitious space data center plans "ridiculous" while Elon Musk pushes for orbital AI computing within two to three years.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently acknowledged that Google’s efforts were not as effective in 2023 as it is now. He said that if Google had chosen to focus on OpenAI at that time, the ChatGPT-maker would have been in a “really bad place.” Speaking on ...