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News of the day
1. Sam altman-backed helion in talks to sell fusion power to openai, aiming for 50 gigawatts by 2035. a strategic move for clean energy. → Read more
2. Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic ‘retaliation’. The AI lab refuses military use of its tech. → Read more
3. Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform valued at $6.6 billion, is actively seeking acquisitions to expand its team and capabilities. The company, which recently reported $400 million in ARR and over 200,000 new projects daily, aims to attract innovative startups and teams to join its mission. → Read more
4. OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed 17.5% return to secure enterprise joint ventures in the race against Anthropic. → Read more
Our take
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Sam Altman is stepping down from the board of Helion Energy, the fusion startup he has been funding for over a decade. The reason? OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy a share of Helion's electricity output. We're talking 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035. For perspective, 50 GW is more than the peak electricity consumption of Switzerland and Portugal combined.
The timing is far from coincidental. AI is devouring energy at a pace nobody truly anticipated. US data centers currently consume around 4.4% of the nation's electricity, and the trajectory is vertical. OpenAI has announced plans to multiply its consumption by 125 by 2030. Electricity prices in the US have surged 42% since 2019, partly driven by this pressure. The energy problem is no longer a side issue, it's THE bottleneck in the race to AGI.
Helion reached 150 million degrees in February inside its Polaris prototype, three quarters of the threshold needed for commercial operations. That's impressive. But the company still hasn't demonstrated scientific breakeven, meaning producing more energy than the reaction consumes. And they're promising 800 operational reactors by 2030. For context, each prototype currently takes between 2 and 4 years to build. Let's just say the timeline reads more like investor storytelling than an industrial roadmap.
What's truly fascinating here is the strategic play. Altman funds Helion. Altman runs OpenAI. Altman steps down from Helion's board to enable a partnership between the two. It's the exact same playbook he used with Oklo last year. The man is building his own energy value chain, from the power source all the way to the GPU. You can call it visionary or a little too convenient, but one thing is certain: nobody else in tech is playing on this many boards at the same time.
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