New York (EFE) ” that will consume the development of AI in the immediate future.
Oklo, created by Altman himself in 2014, announced Tuesday that it will soon go public through a SPAC (a shell company created for that sole purpose) called AltC Acquisition Corporation and that it will disappear in 2024.
Aurora …
With this operation, Oklo hopes to raise 500 million dollars that will allow it to launch a supply chain and build a pilot plant for its reactor, which it has named Aurora, Oklo co-founder Jack DeWitte explained to CNBC.
“Aurora” will be of the so-called “small modular reactor” (SMR), a device still little developed in the United States and with which Altman intends to gain a foothold in the competitive energy market where technological innovations are crucial to gain an advantage. before other energies that depend on the meteorological circumstances.
Altman told the Wall Street Journal that he sees AI and nuclear energy as two areas that feed off each other: on the one hand, Artificial Intelligence can bring great advances to the world of nuclear fission; and conversely, nuclear power will help provide “the tremendous amount of power” demanded by AI.
Fervent supporter of nuclear power
Altman, a fervent supporter of nuclear energy -which contributes 20% of the energy mix in the United States- has created other companies in the field in the past, such as Helion Energy, which has already signed an agreement with Microsoft.
In a recent interview with CNBC, Altman wanted to appear as a visionary: “My overall idea of the world is that the future can be radically improved, and the two things we need most are lowering the cost of energy and lowering the cost of intelligence. If we do, it will be amazing how different the future can be.”