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Amazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI

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Amazon dropped Artificial, its nearly finished film about Altman’s 2023 OpenAI firing, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI. Other studios are circling.

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Variety and Deadline reported on Thursday. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as Altman, had tested well with early audiences and was being shown to other studios the same day Amazon confirmed it would not release it.

The decision comes four months after Amazon committed $50 billion to OpenAI as part of a $110 billion funding round, a deal that also made AWS the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI’s enterprise platform. Amazon has not said whether its financial relationship with OpenAI influenced the decision, but the timing has drawn widespread attention from trade outlets and tech press alike.

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