Elon bids to buy OpenAI, AI in Paris, DOGE, Gelephu
Sam Altman offers three observations.
OpenAI plans to unify the o-series and GPT-series.
Elon offers to buy OpenAI (the nonprofit) for $97.4B (a). Matt Levine has a good analysis (a):
If you are the board of directors of a nonprofit organization and a consortium led by Elon Musk comes to you with a $97.4 billion hostile takeover offer, are you obligated to get the highest possible price, or are you allowed to consider other factors in deciding whether or not to accept his offer?
Man: I do not know! It seems very unlikely that any nonprofit board has ever faced this problem before, and when I put it like that, it sounds completely incoherent. Nonprofits do not get hostile takeover offers, nonprofits do not get acquired by investor consortiums for $97 billion, and surely nonprofit boards do not have an obligation to maximize their valuation? Like, generally, the opposite? Of all of that?
And yet there is something extremely clever here...
Ilya's Safe Superintelligence Inc. may soon be valued at $20 billion USD(!)
At the Paris AI Summit: "The US has also demanded that the final statement excludes any mention of the environmental cost of AI, existential risk or the UN." Dario on the Summit. Zvi's roundup.
Eliezer in 2007 (re: the Paris Summit?)
Another throwback: Beware Trivial Inconveniences (re: user adoption of ChatGPT, DeepSeek...)
Open Philanthropy requests proposals for AI safety research. They intend to grant $40M over the next 5 months.
The clarion-minded Kelsey Piper led a hackathon double-clicking into whether PEPFAR is as good as it appears (thread, full report). (tl;dr – PEPFAR good.)
Bhutan's Mindfulness City now has a website.
An official website of the United States government.
On Serena Williams' Super Bowl halftime cameo.
"Over 50% of adults in Philadelphia are considered functionally illiterate, meaning they read at about a fifth-grade level or below."
OpenAI's Super Bowl ad.