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Why the AI Industry Is Betting on a Fusion Energy Breakthrough
Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. When Sam Altman arrived at Helion Energy's small Redmond, Wash., office in early 2014, nuclear-fusion textbooks tucked under his arm, the company was focusing its efforts on research and development. By the time he left, several days later, he had persuaded the fusion-energy startup to chart a more aggressive path toward deployment, CEO David Kirtley recalls. A year later, Altman, who was co-founding OpenAI around the same time, invested $9.5 million in Helion, taking the role of chairman.
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