According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes to raise as much as $5 to $7 trillion for a new project that will increase global chip manufacturing capacity.。This amount is larger than the current global chip market, and even more than the combined market capitalization of Apple and Microsoft.。

Only a few tech companies need a lot of AI chips, and these companies are in desperate need of more。Due to the high cost of chips, well-resourced tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon are building their own chips in-house。Tech industry leaders have long complained about a shortage of Nvidia's $40,000 H100 chip, the most powerful AI chip on the market.。

The US government is also involved.。Against the backdrop of a chip shortage and fierce competition from the world that dominates artificial intelligence, the White House today announced it will invest more than $5 billion in semiconductor-related research, development and staff needs to expand chip production in the United States.。

Sam Altman's new project aims to solve OpenAI's chip constraints。Not only do the chips need to be used to power ChatGPT, they will pave the way for the company's ambition to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), which refers to artificial intelligence systems that can reason like humans.。