This week’s episode of StrictlyVC Download was recorded live at the Elevate Festival in Toronto. TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos sat down with Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, to discuss the company’s newly launched video generation tool Sora, the complexities of copyright and fair use in AI training, and the massive infrastructure buildout required to keep pace with China. Lehane also explained OpenAI’s approach to iterative deployment, why the company believes it will need a gigawatt of energy per week in the near future, and what keeps waking him up at 3 AM.

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