The Complete History of OpenAI and ChatGPT: From a Nonprofit Dream to a $730 Billion Corporate Machine
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Discussion of the blog article The Complete History of OpenAI and ChatGPT: From a Nonprofit Dream to a $730 Billion Corporate Machine.
OpenAI started as a nonprofit safety research lab in 2015. Today it's a $730 billion for-profit corporation that removed "safely" from its own mission statement. Here's every major moment that got them there — the good, the bad, and the straight-up alarming.
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