for his contributions to artificial intelligence , especially after Microsoft invested billions of dollars in OpenAI. The company's ChatGPT chatbot gained significant public attention towards the end of last year. However, Altman's vision for a better future relies on simultaneously developing AI and energy technologies.
“My whole view of the world is the future can be radically better, and the two things that we really need for that are to lower the cost of energy and lower the cost of intelligence. And if we get those, we’ll be quite surprised about how different and how much better the future is,” Altman explained to CNBC.
According to Altman's vision of the future, the increased use of AI will require significant energy. In 2013, Altman came across Oklo's co-founders and invited them to, a startup hub in Silicon Valley where he served as president from 2014 to 2019. Caroline Cochran and Jacob DeWitte accepted the invitation and became part of Y Combinator in 2014. Altman then led Oklo's seed round in 2015 and assumed the board's Chairman role.“I’m all-in on energy.
“The alternative to not having enough energy is that crazy de-growth stuff people talk about. We really don’t want that,” Altman told CNBC. “I think it’s insane and pretty immoral when people start calling for that," he added.