Altman will meet with employees of the Microsoft campus in Herzliya as well as prominent Israeli tech entrepreneurs.
Globes, founder and CEO of OpenAI, has learned that Sam Altman will visit Israel next week as a guest at the Microsoft Development Center Israel. Altman will meet with employees at Microsoft’s Herzliya campus as well as prominent Israeli tech entrepreneurs, as part of the company’s worldwide meetings.
Altman, who comes from a Jewish family in St. Louis, Missouri, was the head of startup accelerator Y Combinator before founding OpenAI, which raised a large investment from Microsoft upon its founding. Last year, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot. Since the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI and Microsoft have come close to collaborating with OpenAI to provide Microsoft with AI capabilities for most of its products including the Bing search engine, Azure cloud platform, and Office software.
Published by Globes, Israel business news – en.globes.co.il – on May 28, 2023.
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