Sam explicitly commented on this claim. He said we’ll _collectively_, _eventually_ need to spend 7 trillion dollars on compute to meet demand. Not OpenAI raising 7 trillion to build all the capacity itself.
This is true and I'm sad to see the hacker news crowd blindly repeating falsehoods.
After getting laughed at he walked back his initial proposals?
Can you cite a source for this? When was this said? Was this something said before these meetings or a walk back after they laughed him out of the room.
there's a recent a clip of Masa at a bloomberg conference quoting 9T on a similar idea, i think he said he thought it was actually a good buy