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Oct 2024
23m 23s

The Big Changes Tearing OpenAI Apart

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & GIMLET
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In less than two years, OpenAI—the company behind ChatGPT—has gone from a little-known nonprofit lab to a world-famous organization at the forefront of an artificial intelligence revolution. But the company has faced a series of challenges, culminating last week in another high-profile departure and the decision to become a for-profit corporation. WSJ’s Deepa Seetharaman discusses the permanent change to OpenAI's ethos and what it could mean for the AI industry.


Further Listening:

- Artificial: The OpenAI Story 

- Artificial: Episode 1, The Dream 


Further Reading:

- Turning OpenAI Into a Real Business Is Tearing It Apart 

- OpenAI’s Complex Path to Becoming a For-Profit Company 


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