During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the AI developer’s finance chief talked in detail about the company’s restructuring, Elon Musk’s legal actions and IPO best practices.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who's very "close" to the Stargate deal, confirms the company's ability to financially back the AI project and urges Elon Musk to compete for "the right things."

Microsoft’s absence from OpenAI’s Stargate announcement follows months of tension between the companies and signals a new era in which the longtime partners will be less reliant on each other. At a White House press conference,

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23rd, 2025. Alexandr Wang, whose company Scale AI provides training data to key artificial intelligence players including OpenAI, Google and Meta, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an "AI war."

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei expressed skepticism about the financing for rival OpenAI’s $500 billion infrastructure venture and called the planned project “a bit chaotic.”

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S.

French AI startup Mistral, dubbed Europe's OpenAI, plans an IPO, not a sale, as it expands globally with over €1 billion raised since 2023.

Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump.

OpenAI Inc. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar characterized Elon Musk’s legal challenge to stop the ChatGPT maker from becoming a for-profit company as competitive maneuvering.

On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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