According to foreign media reports, seven years ago, Intel missed the opportunity to purchase 15% of OpenAI for $1 billion. At that time, CEO Bob Swan did not push forward with these negotiations. If Intel had made a different decision back then, its trajectory in the era of artificial intelligence could have been significantly altered.
OpenAI was open to this investment at the time, hoping that collaboration with Intel could reduce reliance on NVIDIA's chips and establish its own infrastructure. However, Intel's data center division opposed the deal, unwilling to provide products at cost, which became the key reason the transaction did not go through.
Today, OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, has skyrocketed its valuation to $80 billion.