How OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion

The company behind GPT-3 and Codex isn’t as open as it claims.

Alberto Romero
OneZero
Published in
8 min readAug 30, 2021

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The 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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