From next to nothing, in February, Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI.
Amazon MGM Studios reportedly scraps Sam Altman biopic artificialHowever, this has almost come to an end after the company deepened its partnership with OpenAI. according to DiversityThe film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, has already had several test screenings, receiving a positive response. Amazon already had a copy of all iterations of the script before Guadagnino joined the project, so it knew what kind of film it was greenlighting and even fast-tracking last year.
A spokesperson told the publication, “We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker – not to mention a long-standing relationship that we look forward to continuing.” “We believe that artificial It would have been better if it was released by a different studio and we are working closely with the film production team to find a new home for the film.”
Five months after reports surfaced that Amazon was developing a film about Sam Altman, OpenAI signed a $38 billion multi-year cloud contract with Amazon. It gives OpenAI access to “thousands” of NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs through Amazon Web Services for inference and training of its next-generation models. The companies expanded their partnership in February this year. Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI, and they completed another deal for AWS to run OpenAI models for enterprise customers.
artificial Revolves around Altman’s controversial dismissal and reinstatement as CEO of OpenAI in 2023. It stars Andrew Garfield as Altman, Monica Barbero as former OpenAI CTO Mira Muratti, who served as interim CEO at the time, as well as Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist and board member. Ike Barinholtz will play Elon Musk, who was one of the early funders of OpenAI and is now embroiled in a legal battle against it. Diversity says that the film portrays Altman and Musk as the least sympathetic characters in the story. The film has already been screened for other companies, but it is not yet clear which studio wants to portray the head of OpenAI negatively.
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