Open Source · Anthropic · AI Agent · OpenAI · Claude · China · The Guardian Technology
OpenAI has filed to list on the stock market with a reported valuation above $850bn, likely this year or next
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It has been locked in a race with rival Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, to develop more and more capable AI models.
Key facts
- Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher who quit in 2024 and last year founded a non-profit organisation that has warned unchecked AI progress will result in a 10-30% probability of human
- His organisation, the AI Futures Project, predicts AI super-intelligence could be achieved by 2030, but is calling for governments to prevent that from happening until a decade later to give AI
- OpenAI has filed to list on the stock market with a reported valuation above $850bn, likely this year or next
- A safety deal with China is also considered important with President Xi Jinping, due to meet Trump in Washington on 24 September
Summary
A senior leader at OpenAI has said people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, persistent” cyber-attacks from AIs, as cutting-edge artificial intelligence models gain advanced capabilities to plan and launch offensives. The leading AI company this week announced a pause in development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety fears, and Chris Lehane, its chief global affairs officer, said: “We are hitting a different chapter, a different moment within AI, in terms of what the capabilities of this technology can do.” He spoke to the Guardian after cutting-edge AI agents-in-training unexpectedly broke out of a supposedly secure “sandbox” environment, accessed the internet, and hacked into another company, Hugging Face in late July.