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it house reported on september 30 that a report in the new york times last week revealed the inside story of openai ceo sam altman’s meetings with senior executives of multiple chip manufacturers during his visit to asia last year. the report stated that,altman's huge investment plan was strongly questioned by tsmc executives, who thought the idea was so ridiculous that they nicknamed altman the "podcasting bro."

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altman plans to invest us$7 trillion (it home note: currently about 48.94 trillion yuan) to build 36 new chip manufacturing factories and data centers to promote the development of artificial intelligence. however, tsmc executives believe that this plan is too radical and extremely risky. adding a few more chip manufacturing plants is already extremely risky because there is so much money involved, let alone 36.

tsmc’s new chairman wei zhejia has also publicly questioned altman’s views before, believing that they are too radical.

altman reportedly proposed similar plans to samsung and sk hynix executives during his visit to south korea, but an agreement could not be reached due to national security concerns.

altman’s original plan was for the uae to fund the construction of multiple chip manufacturing plants, and then nvidia would use these semiconductor chips to make more ai chips. finally, openai and other companies would use these ai chips to build artificial intelligence data centers. altman's plan would cost as much as $43 billion to build each chip manufacturing plant. however, the plan will lower the cost for chip companies, such as tsmc, to make chips.

openai's business model is currently unconvincing, with annual revenue of approximately $3 billion and expenses as high as $7 billion. altman's grand plan appears to be based on the theory that artificial intelligence will be like electricity, and as it becomes more ubiquitous, people will find more and better ways to use it. however, leading technology companies have yet to find the killer application for artificial intelligence.