Context:

• Recently, the Open AI board fired CEO, co-founder Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman.

OpenAI’s Inception and Mission

• Establishment: Founded in December 2015 as a non-profit AI research organization.
• Mission: Develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits humanity and prevent tech monopolies.

Founding Members and Funding

• Founding members include Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Amazon Web Services, Infosys, and others.
• Collective pledge of $1 billion to advance AGI research.

Evolution and Challenges

• Transition to For-Profit Model: In 2019, Open AI transitions into two entities: a capped-profit organization (Open AI Global LLC) and a non-profit sole controlling shareholder (OpenAI Inc).
  • Altman secures $1 billion in funding from Microsoft, facilitating the commercialization of OpenAI’s technology.
• Breakout with ChatGPT: OpenAI gains prominence with the release of ChatGPT, based on the GPT-3.5 architecture.
  • Over a million people sign up for the free preview within the first five days.
  • A GPT is a neural network, or a machine learning model, which functions like a human brain and is trained on input, such as large data sets, to produce outputs, meaning answers to users’ questions.

News Source: Indian Express