A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom

A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom
An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination.

Sam Altman, a founder and chairman of OpenAI, a lab that is popularizing generative artificial intelligence. The company is now in talks on a tender offer.Credit...Mike Cohen for The New York Times