OpenAI said Tuesday that Chairman Adebayo Ogunlesi, founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), will join the board of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. A year ago, BlackRock announced that it was buying GIP for $12 billion, and making Mr Ogunlesi a senior managing director at BlackRock.
BlackRock recently invested in OpenAI. OpenAI is building the “airports”, “railways”, “roads”, and broad infrastructure of the 21st century. Yes, the foundational pillars of the AI (artificial intelligence) age. It does make sense for them to ask him to drive it for them since he is a legend on building infrastructures
We congratulate him for his peerless ascension in America’s business sphere. This is a big deal because OpenAI is a category-king company. Here, the kings are gathering at scale.
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