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19 minutes ago
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Amazon Making $40M Movie About OpenAI Meltdown, ChatGPT AI Safety
Andrew Garfield (center) with "The Social Network" co-stars Jesse Eisenberg (left) and Justin ... More Timberlake (right). Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage The latest entry in the tech founder takedown genre is Artificial, a $40 million feature film being made by Amazon MGM Studios for Prime Video about the sudden and shocking firing of OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman one sleepless Thanksgiving weekend in 2023. For five days and nights, the tech world remained glued to X for blow-by-blow coverage from a cadre of scrappy reporters. It was a nail-biter. But by the time everyone returned to work after the long holiday weekend, all was as it had been. Altman had been rehired and memes of him playing his UNO reverse card were pretty much gone. AI casting call The movie is being billed as a comedic thriller. Follow along to see which characters get cast with this great list posted by CNN as the story was unfolding. Here is what is known about the talent so far. Toplining is The Amazing Spiderman's Andrew Garfield who is set to play Altman. No stranger to corporate meltdown dramas, Garfield, played Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network and television evangelist Jim Bakker in Jessica Chastain's Eyes of Tammy Faye. His real-life girlfriend Monica Barbaro has been cast as OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati who was one of the board members who voted to fire Altman. Following his ousting, she took the helm as Interim CEO for three days, then left to form her own AI unicorn, Thinking Machines, which is now valued at $10 billion with backing from Andreessen Horowitz. Barbaro has received widespread acclaim for her portrayal of Joan Baez in Timothée Chalamet's Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. Oscar-nominated Anora actor Yura Borisov is set to play OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who led the board revolt against Altman and had one of the more bizarre story arcs, which included bringing Altman back after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered to hire all OpenAI employees who were quitting in protest to Altman's firing. Nadella was heralded as a hero and Altman cryptically tweeted the acronym ILYA as I love you always. It was high drama with a lot of Easter eggs. Sutskever later left OpenAI to found his own AI unicorn, Safe Superintelligence Inc., which is also backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway's SV Angel, Yuri Milner's DST Global and Nat Friedman's NFDG, as confirmed by SSI on X. Bloomberg reported his startup has been fundraising at a $30 billion valuation. Snowden and Super Pumped: Battle for Uber star Joseph Gordon-Levitt may or may not be under consideration for Artificial, but perhaps should be as he happens to be married to Tasha McCauley, another former OpenAI board member who was part of the coup to fire Altman over safety issues. Gordon-Levitt has long been vocal about his concerns over data privacy and AI's role in Hollywood, which would make him well-suited to play Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who also served briefly as OpenAI's Interim CEO. Pure speculation mixed with wishful thinking. Gordon-Levitt is currently working on an untitled AI thriller with Anne Hathaway who starred in another tech founder takedown docudrama with Jared Leto in AppleTV's WeCrashed, a miniseries about the rise and fall of WeWork co-founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann. Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, who directed Zendaya's Challengers, is in talks to direct Artificial. Shooting is expected to take place in San Francisco and Italy. Corporate meltdown dramas have been making for gripping cinema in recent years. To get in the mood for Artificial, worth a watch are Hulu's The Dropout, a miniseries about the rise and fall of the Theranos co-founders; AMC's BlackBerry, a feature film about the first smartphone; and AppleTV's Tetris, a thriller about one game developer's determination to license Tetris from the Soviet Union in the 1980s for Nintendo Game Boy. How Amazon really feels about AI drama What makes the making of Artificial for Prime Video so meta, is that Amazon was one of the founding investors of OpenAI alongside Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and others who jointly pledged $1 billion in 2015 to fund the nonprofit foundation to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Yet rather than funding subsequent rounds of OpenAI, Amazon dropped out and gave $8 billion to Anthropic instead, a ChatGPT competitor founded by OpenAI alumni to create a safer and more private AI. Today Anthropic is reported to be valued at $61.5 billion, while OpenAI is far larger, with an estimated 1 billion users and $300 billion valuation. That said, the startup hasn't been able to go public because it's still a nonprofit. To further complicate things, Amazon partners with OpenAI on AWS's Bedrock offering which provides customers access to a variety of foundation models. So likely Amazon's feelings about OpenAI are somewhat mixed. That said, Puck got an early read of the script and reported that Altman and Elon Musk will probably hate their portrayals. So stay tuned, the real AI drama has just begun.
Yahoo
35 minutes ago
- Yahoo
AI startups believe Google's Chrome is vulnerable to a new wave of intelligent browsers
AI startups are breaking into the web browser business, posing a threat to one of Google's biggest businesses. Perplexity, which this week launched its own AI-enabled web browser, Comet, is leading the charge. Experts say Google's relative slowness on AI has left an opening that could give AI startups a chance of grabbing market share. A flurry of AI startups are changing the way we search the web and in the process threatening Google's search dominance in the biggest way since its meteoric rise in the late '90s. This week, Perplexity, a San Francisco-based startup most recently valued at $14 billion, launched its own AI-enabled web browser for select subscribers. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is also working on an AI web browser of its own, reported Reuters. These AI web browsers directly aim at Google's dominance over search, especially through its popular Google Chrome web browser, and have the potential to upend the industry as we know it by reimagining the search experience, said Steve Jang, the founder and managing partner at Kindred Ventures, which was an early investor in Perplexity. 'Every tech cycle, everyone questions whether or not a new startup can—how can they possibly defeat or even get significant market share away from these legacy platforms, and they always do,' he told Fortune. Perplexity's AI browser, Comet, for instance, comes with Perplexity's AI chatbot pre-installed to replace searches. It also includes an AI agent called Comet Assistant, which the company claims can automatically book a meeting or send an email, buy something for you, and brief you on what you need to know for the day. The entry of these AI products may also be timely and could take advantage of a 'window of opportunity,' as Google faces an uncertain future thanks to the impending remedies resulting from its antitrust case, said Ari Paparo, a former director of product management of advertiser products at Google. One such remedy could include spinning off the Chrome web browser that the AI upstarts are trying to compete with. Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Still, it's unclear how the search market will ultimately pan out as a result of the new entrants. Google Chrome, for its part, still has an advantage because of its established reach of more than 3 billion users, about 68% of the market, and the massive amount of user data it collects—then there's the friction involved with switching browsers, a challenge in itself. But in terms of AI usage, OpenAI is already competing head-to-head with Google. Twenty-nine percent of consumers say they use OpenAI regularly, versus 30% who say they use Google's Gemini, according to a recent survey by Wedbush. Paparo said the technology from AI web browsers needs to be significantly better to convince consumers to switch products. 'What is it that a browser from Perplexity or a browser from OpenAI will do that'll be 10 times better than what Google does? They already have search, they already have AI, they already have the browser. That's a pretty tough hill to climb,' Paparo told Fortune. What's worse, the AI-enabled Comet, like most other AI platforms, is in some cases still prone to hallucinations, TechCrunch reported. Still, Jang, the VC, said he is still confident the Perplexity team is set up to make major strides. Apart from Comet, the company has also previously launched a mobile app with voice capability and its own take on supercharged AI agents with Perplexity Labs. While Google may be the giant in search, Perplexity is the eager upstart looking for an opening, he said. 'Monopolies in technology are great opportunities for startups, and by design they are meant to be attacked,' he added. This story was originally featured on
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Marc Benioff says the narrative that AI will end white-collar jobs is wrong
AI is radically reshaping business at Salesforce. That doesn't mean that CEO Marc Benioff sees AI as a future mass killer of white-collar jobs. Instead, Benioff forsees "a radical augmentation of the workforce." Marc Benioff said that while artificial intelligence is drastically reshaping Salesforce, it doesn't mean that it will wipe out white-collar workers. "That isn't how I see AI," Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, told Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson during a recent onstage interview at the 2025 AI for Good Global Summit. "Maybe they have AI, I don't have. But in the AI I have, it's not going to be some huge mass layoff of white-collar workers, it is a radical augmentation of the workforce." Benioff's broader view of AI contrasts with how other in tech view the next decade. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who was not mentioned directly during Benioff's appearance, has said AI may eliminate half of entry-level, white-collar jobs within the next five years. People need to get past this type of general "fear," Benioff said. "When I'm talking to our customers, I'm not hearing them say, "Oh, now I'm laying off these people because this A,B,C technology increase because of AI.' So, I think we need to somehow shed the fear of what that all means." For his own company, Benioff says he's paused Salesforce's hiring of engineers, lawyers, and customer service agents for the year so the company can "let AI productivity really take hold." "Right now, for engineering organization, because of the incredible productivity opportunity, for AI in engineering this year, let's take some time to actually incorporate that in so we're not focused on hiring another thousand, 2,000, 3,000 engineers," he said. At the same time, Benioff said Salesforce is ramping up sales-related hires due to customer demand to deploy AI. That's likely because, in his view, we're on the edge of "a radical explosion in small and medium businesses." "You're just going to see a lot more SMBs and a lot more general business and mid-market business, because their capabilities are radically amplified by the AI," he said. Read the original article on Business Insider
