Andrej Karpathy’s remarks come at a time of rising concerns about AI replacing workers, of mass layoffs, with AI being seen as the culprit.

OpenAI on Thursday said it bought Software Applications Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup develops Sky, which allows Mac users to take action on their screens and within apps using text-based prompts.

Take AI startups like Anysphere, whose Cursor app helps software developers write code, Harvey, which provides AI to law firms, and OpenEvidence, which does the same for doctors (and on October 20th raised $200m at a valuation of $6bn).

The move followed a viral controversy in which users of OpenAI’s Sora 2 model, an AI text-to-video generator, generated a realistic AI-made video of actor Bryan Cranston appearing alongside a digital likeness of Michael Jackson—without the actor's consent.

OpenAI, along with Oracle and Vantage Data Centers, will develop a data center campus in Wisconsin, as part of the Stargate project, to keep the U.S. ahead in the global artificial intelligence race,