The CEO of Openai Sam Altman says the company is a “graphics processing units”

Openai Sam Altman CEO said that the company was forced to formulate its latest models, GPT-4.5Because Openai is a “graphics processing units”.

in After xAltman said that the GPT-4.5, which he described as “giant” and “expensive”, will require “tens of thousands” with more graphics processing units before the additional Chatgpt users can reach. GPT-4.5 will come first for the participants in Chatgpt Pro starting on Thursday, followed by Chatgpt Plus customers next week.

This may be partially due to its huge size, GPT-4.5 is very expensive. Openai ships $ 75 per million icons (about 750,000 words) fed up by the form and $ 150 per million symbols created by the model. This is 30x input cost and 15x output cost from Openai’s Workhorm GPT-4O model.

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“We were growing a lot and getting out of graphics processing units,” Al -Taman Books. “We will add tens of thousands of graphics processing units next week and put them to the additional layer and then … this is not the way we want to work, but it is difficult to predict perfectly of growth that leads to a lack of graphics processing unit.”

Altman has previously He said that the lack of computing ability delays the company’s products. Openai hopes to fight this in the coming years Developing its artificial intelligence chips and Building a huge network of data centers.