“Artificial” star Andrew Garfield is weighing on Amazon MGM Studios’ decision to drop the Luca Guadagnino-directed film about Sam Altman and OpenAI. “I was and I wasn’t [surprised],” the Oscar winner told me Wednesday while promoting his new movie “The Magic Faraway Tree.” “I think there are certain things that fit certain places and don't fit other places and they [Amazon] were nothing but supportive and nothing but encouraging while we were making the film. Luca has a really great...
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Altman is one of the most powerful execs in the booming artificial-intelligence sector as the head of OpenAI — currently valued at $157 billion, with investors that include Microsoft and Nvidia. Co-founded by Altman in 2015, the company is responsible for the revolutionary AI chatbot ChatGPT and the recently launched Sora gen-AI video system. Originally, OpenAI was established as a not-for-profit research lab; Altman is now navigating the company’s path forward as a commercial venture. (Elon Musk, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, has sued the company, alleging it has violated its nonprofit charter.) Before being named CEO of OpenAI in 2019, Altman was president of start-up accelerator Y Combinator. He studied computer science at Stanford University before dropping out to form Loopt, a location-sharing app start-up.