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Behind Elon Musk’s $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid

2025/2/12
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Craig Martell: 我认为现在的政策思维还停留在“第一个造出盒子的人会赢”的旧观念上,但这种观念在人工智能领域已经不适用了。试图阻止开源技术的发展是徒劳的,因为这项技术已经存在,无法被封锁。DeepSeek的出现对开源社区来说是一个胜利,而不是中国超越美国的标志。Meta的Llama项目证明了开源的价值,只需少量额外投资就能获得巨大的成果。我们有责任在合理利用纳税人的钱和保留人才之间找到平衡。在进行人员调整时,既要考虑节约纳税人的钱,又要确保不流失关键人才。官僚机构的优点在于它能够抵御政府换届带来的变化。我们尝试通过重新调整现有人员和空缺职位,将非技术岗位转变为人工智能技术岗位,从而更明智地利用资源,而不是直接裁员。

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Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in a $97.4 billion dollar bid to buy OpenAI’s assets. WSJ reporter Berber Jin tells host Julie Chang what that could mean for the ChatGPT-maker as it looks to transform to a for-profit company, and why it puts pressure) on its CEO Sam Altman. Plus, the U.S. Department of Defense’s former chief digital and AI officer talks about what DeepSeek and DOGE could mean for the future of war.

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