OpenAI

Since the launch of ChatGPT last year, millions of people have singed up on the platform and started using the AI to boost their productivity. Even most of us have heard about ChatGPT but do you know the company behind it. So, today we will talk about Open AI which is the actual brains behind ChatGPT.

History

OpenAI was only founded in 2015 as a non-profit platform by Elon Musk and CEO Sam Altman and in the few short years of its existence, OpenAI has become one of the world's leading artificial intelligence research labs. OpenAI's futuristic research laboratory is housed in San Francisco. It's a small company with only around 400 employees but it's making huge advances in AI. Before starting OpenAI, Altman was the president of the venture capital company Y Combinator which helped launch various big brands such as Airbnb, Reddit, Twitch, and many more. Altman and Musk teamed up with legendary Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and pledged $1 billion toward the project.

How is OpenAI building it's LLM's ?

OpenAI is utilising tremendous amounts of data freely available on the internet to train its language models capable of answering most of your questions and even more. It has launched several of its products besides ChatGPT, in the past year, such as the OpenAI Codex, an AI model which can understand natural language and generate code in response, it is the brains behind GitHub copilot. Another product named DALL-E 2 is an AI model that can generate images and art from natural language.

Future Outlook

OpenAI's current investors include Microsoft, which has invested $10 billion into ChatGPT. Altman says he has high hopes and says future systems will make “ChatGPT look like a boring toy.” OpenAI's president, Greg Brockman tweeted '2023 will make 2022 look like a sleepy year for AI advancement & adoption' OpenAI's website states that its mission “is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” OpenAI's has already launched its next-generation AI model named GPT4 yesterday, which is It also announced the 3D tool Point-E in a research paper last year. It's still a work in process, and 2023 could see further developments. What OpenAI has shown is that a small dedicated team can change the world quickly. Even if the road ahead is difficult. The CEO of OpenAI recently tweeted about the importance of resilience. Altman wrote: “You're supposed to pour your life force into something and it's not supposed to always be easy.” Despite the economic meltdown we all faced in 2022, it's clear there are still innovative companies like OpenAI on the rise. The future is about Artificial Intelligence and how it will make things look easy.