It seemed like Sam Altman was trying to do this himself. That may be some or all of why he got fired from OpenAI in the first place. Doing the chip making thin

It seemed like Sam Altman was trying to do this himself. That may be some or all of why he got fired from OpenAI in the first place. Doing the chip making thing under OpenAI's auspices reads a bit differently than Sam Altman trying to do both separately. It felt to me like trying to start your own thing while also working for OpenAI would be fraught with impossible to juggle conflicts of interest.