Part of the 40 billion that they might* get from mostly SoftBank, who said they would give OpenAI substantially less if they don’t restructure into a for profit by the end of 2025. 1
I suspect they’re anticipating the 30 billion from SoftBank to partially fall through.
This kind of shit is pretty common for younger people. I work as a teacher, and I hear students talk about this all the time. I tell them how unhealthy it is blah, blah, blah. My SO tells the younger people at her work “If I had PumpkinSkink’s location sharing on he couldn’t surprise me with cake from the bakery”. She has had more success than I getting people to stop.
Just a funny story, but, I use an Ubuntu laptop as my work computer as a teacher, and once, while I was helping another student with work, a student opened my laptop and began trying to install Roblox. She got far enough to figure out it wouldn’t work, and started searching for how to install it. When I came over she was trying to figure out how to set up Wine. She got pretty close to getting it working before I came over. I was secretly pretty impressed with how fast she figured it out. It couldn’t have been more than a few minutes.
Damn. Labor really wants to lose that election to Farage. Good luck to Corbyn and Sultana, I guess.