Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories

His fundraising for his other companies is widely known and has been happening consistently for years.

Well wait a minute...I don't think it would be competing with them in the end and I can't see him overcharging OpenAI, of all companies, for the use of this product. I honestly feel like this appears a genuine effort to help the interests of OpenAI and can't really find any conflicts or cause for this particular endeavor to engender dishonesty from him.

I have a feeling they might not actually need the latest fab tech.

What matters is FLOPS/dollar (production cost) and FLOPS/kilowatt (energy use of resulting chips).

If you can use an older tech fab to get production cost down enough, it might be worth living with bigger transistors that use a little more energy.

AI stuff is massively parallel, unlike most other tech stuff, so they don't actually need super low latency and high clock speeds.

can't you?