Nonprofit research lab OpenAI is announced, with $1 billion pledged
Announced the founding of OpenAI as a nonprofit research organization, with $1 billion in funding pledged
Why it matters
The launch of the organization that would become the starting point for the GPT series and the shift to commercialization
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