Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the biggest obstacle that could make artificial intelligence technology fail miserably to develop.
Altman was one of the speakers at the event held Bloomberg in a series of annual World Economic Forum forums in Davos, Switzerland.
He stated, to support the development and adoption of AI, the world needs a breakthrough in the energy sector. The reason is that the computing process to support AI services requires much more power than currently.
Fortunately, according to Altman, currently there are many environmentally friendly alternative energy sources such as nuclear fusion or solar energy. These energy sources are the future of AI.
“There is no way we could have achieved this without a breakthrough. This motivates us to invest more in [teknologi nuklir] fusion,” Altman said.
In 2021, Altman disbursed US$ 375 million of his own money to capitalize a nuclear fusion energy company called Helion Energy. Helion Energy now has a deal with Microsoft as a future electricity provider.
Micro nuclear reactor
AltC Acquisition Corp., the SPAC shell company founded by Sam Altman, has also announced plans to merge with Oklo. Oklo is a Canadian nuclear fission micro reactor startup.
After the merger, Oklo has the ambition to raise up to US$ 500 million in the capital raising process ahead of the initial public offering (IPO).
The funds will be used to strengthen the company's procurement process and supply chain as well as build the first mini power plant facility they designed, named Aurora.
Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) robot ChatGPT which has received billions of US dollars from Microsoft.
According to him, the development of AI-based industry must be accompanied by nuclear development.
Altman met with both Oklo founders. Caroline Cochran and Jacob DeWitte, in 2013. Oklo is a startup looking to build miniature nuclear fission reactors. Nuclear fission, is the technology used in nuclear power plants today, namely harvesting energy from the splitting of atoms.
Altman's SPAC will close fundraising in early 2024 with a fundraising target of US$ 500 million.
Oklo's business development, which is still in its early stages, is quite promising. In May, the company signed an agreement to build two nuclear power plants in Ohio which are targeted to start operating in 2030.
Oklo has also received approval from the US Department of Energy to build a plant at the Idaho National Laboratory in 2027.
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