OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion

How OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion
The company behind GPT-3 and Codex isn’t as open as it claims.
Alberto Romero
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8 min read·
Aug 30, 2021
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OpenAI logoThe best intentions can be corrupted when money gets in the way.
OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit company whose primary concern was to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be created safely and would benefit all humanity evenly.
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Written by Alberto Romero
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AI & Tech | Analyst at CambrianAI | Weekly AI Newsletter: https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/ | Contact: alber.romgar@gmail.com
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