Source: Wall Street News

media reports,$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, OpenAI, Anthropic,$Microsoft (MSFT.US)$, $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ / $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ Also, several US energy and utility company executives met at the White House on Thursday to discuss the future of America's artificial intelligence energy infrastructure.

Participants included Nvidia CEO Hwang In-hoon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google President Ruth Porat, and Microsoft President Brad Smith. The conference focused on how to combine the public and private sectors to discuss AI's energy use, data center capacity, semiconductor manufacturing, and power grid capacity.

After the meeting, Hwang In-hoon told the media:

“We are at the beginning of a new industrial revolution. The industry will create intelligence, and this requires energy... so we must ensure that everyone understands the upcoming needs, the opportunities, and challenges, and realizes them in the most effective and scalable way. Public-private partnerships may be needed in this area because growth is really fast.”

He also revealed that Nvidia is starting full mass production of Blackwell's chips.

An OpenAI spokesperson said the company believes building more infrastructure in the US is critical to industrial policy and the future of the economy.

“We are grateful to the White House for hosting this conference, which reflects the importance of artificial intelligence in creating jobs, and helps ensure that the benefits of artificial intelligence can be widely applied and that the US continues to be at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence innovation. OpenAI believes infrastructure determines fate, and building more infrastructure is critical to America's industrial policy and economic future.”

People familiar with the matter revealed to the media that OpenAI shared an analysis of AI's economic impact with Biden administration officials, including the estimated impact of building large-scale data centers in US states (such as Wisconsin, California, Texas, and Pennsylvania) on employment and GDP.

The company emphasized the financial benefits of investing in US data center projects, including the potential to create 0.04 million jobs in multiple US states. For example, OpenAI plans to promote an artificial intelligence infrastructure project in the US covering data centers, energy capacity and transmission, and semiconductor manufacturing, which is expected to invest tens of billions of dollars and will attract global investment. The company's executives have been in talks with government officials for several months on a range of issues related to the plan, including national security issues involving foreign investment.

Porat said that a strong US energy infrastructure is essential to ensure America's leadership in the emerging field of artificial intelligence. “Today's White House meeting is an important opportunity to advance the modernization and expansion of America's energy grid,” she said in a statement.

White House spokesman Robyn Patterson said:

“President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris are committed to advancing America's leadership in artificial intelligence by ensuring that data centers are built in the US while ensuring that this technology can develop responsibly.”

According to people familiar with the matter, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (Gina Raimondo) and Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm (Jennifer Granholm) also attended Thursday's meeting.

Other participants included US national security adviser Jake Sullivan (Jake Sullivan), national climate adviser Ali Zaidi (Ali Zaidi), vice president's domestic policy adviser Kristine Lucius (Kristine Lucius), and senior adviser to the president on international climate policy John Podesta (John Podesta). White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zents (Jeff Zions) and Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed (Bruce Reed) also attended the meeting.

Recently, the industry has paid increasing attention to artificial intelligence safety and ethics issues. According to news previously announced in August, OpenAI and Anthropic will allow the U.S. AI Safety Institute (U.S. AI Safety Institute) to test its new models before they are released.

The institute is part of the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (National Institute of Standards and Technology), which says it will “obtain relevant models before and after each company releases new models.”

The agency was established after the Biden administration issued the US government's first executive order on artificial intelligence in October 2023, which required a new safety assessment of artificial intelligence, the formulation of fair and civil rights guidelines, and a study of the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market.

According to reports, OpenAI is in a round of financing negotiations, which will value the company by more than 150 billion dollars. Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI research executives and employees, and has a recent valuation of 18.4 billion dollars. Anthropic's main investors include$Amazon (AMZN.US)$OpenAI, on the other hand, is strongly supported by Microsoft.

Editor/jayden