Sam Altman in touch with TSMC to launch AI chip plant

San Francisco: Open AI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in touch with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to launch an AI chip fabrication plant.

According to The Financial Times, Altman, who aims to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip plant, is also talking with the Taiwanese giant TSMC.

Both OpenAI and TSMC did not comment on the story.

Altman is also reportedly in talks with one of the wealthiest persons in Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, for the semiconductor plant.

Sheikh Tahnoon is brother of Gulf state’s president Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, for whom he is national security adviser.