Of all the magic unleashed by Sam Altman in recent months, the most impressive feat pulled off by the 37-year-old billionaire behind ChatGPT, and its successor chatbot GPT-4, was largely unseen.
Way back in 2015, he convinced Elon Musk to donate $100 million to create a new AI non-profit organisation, OpenAI. He then converted that charity into a company, attracted a $10 billion investment from Microsoft, and binned the organisation’s founding principle: that OpenAI would “open source”,…
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