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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been granted Indonesia's first ever golden visa – entitling him to reside in the archipelagic nation for up to ten years – in recognition of his potential to generate inbound investment. "With this golden visa, Altman is expected to contribute to the development of the use of artificial intelligence …

  1. Rikki Tikki

    Good luck with that

    Indonesia has over 700 regional languages, maybe trying to incorporate the smaller languages will finally cause GPT5 to explode.

    As to the "23 million" speakers of Bahasa Indonesia - not sure whether this is quoting Altmann, but no, most Indonesians speak Indonesian, many of them bilingual with their regional language. See here: https://indonesian-online.com/indonesian-native-speakers/

    And finally ... having recently spent 2 merry hours in the queue for immigration at Ngurah Rai airport, I wish Mr Altman a happy time with his golden visa <- sarcasm, in case you were wondering.

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