OpenAI

Here are some key facts about OpenAI:

• OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others.
• Their goal is to promote and develop friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity.
• OpenAI is structured as a non-profit organization and is based in San Francisco.
• Some notable projects include the GPT language models (GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3, GPT-4), the Rubik's cube solving robot hand, and AI agents for playing games like Dota 2 and Starcraft II.
• OpenAI's researchers have made advances in areas like transfer learning, few-shot learning, and language model training techniques.
• The startup gained attention in 2019 after releasing GPT-2, which showed impressive text generation abilities.
• OpenAI's GPT-3 model has 175 billion parameters, allowing amazingly human-like text generation with extreme versatility.
• Microsoft invested $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019 and extended this partnership in 2021 with additional funding.
• OpenAI uses a for-profit arm to develop products and balance open research with revenue, while capping investor profit.
• The company has faced criticism about the potential dangers of powerful AI models like GPT-3.
• OpenAI aims to develop AI safely and equitably while pushing forward the leading edge of what's possible in AI research.