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Chat GPT has reached new heights of popularity in the last few months – and it is no surprise! The online language model can do some pretty mind-boggling stuff, but who created Chat GPT?
For those who aren’t familiar, Chat GPT is an artificial intelligence model which has been available to the public since the end of November. The model is capable of understanding and responding to human dialogue in a very sophisticated and speedy manner.
You can ask the model to do pretty much anything. It even has the ability to write poetry, summarize long texts, create code and so much more.
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Who owns Chat GPT?
Chat GPT is owned and developed by AI research and deployment company, OpenAI. The organization is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded by some prominent players – including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Jessica Livingston, and Linkedin cofounder Reid Hoffman.
Following its creation in 2015, Elon Musk has since resigned from OpenAI’s board. This was to avoid conflicting developments occurring in his other company Tesla.
Since its introduction last year, the AI bot has been sparking various concerns about people using artificial intelligence to replace human writing.
The largest concern is around students using the model to compose essays and assignments. Universities and anti-cheating software firms are already playing a game of cat-and-mouse, trying to develop tools to combat this.
Recently, they may have struck gold. OpenAI has released its own AI text classifier to the market and another AI detector tool GPTZero has already popped up.
Is OpenAI owned by Microsoft?
Back in 2019, OpenAI joined forces with tech giant Microsoft making them a key strategic investor. Microsoft supported OpenAI’s efforts by providing a one billion dollar funding boost in exchange for an exclusive license to the AI firm’s technology.
In recent news, Microsoft announced they are increasing their investment by giving an additional ten billion dollars to the company! This partnership is likely to pose a large threat to Google’s AI firm, DeepMind. There is already talk that Google will release its version of an AI chatbot, Chinchilla AI, which is likely to be a direct rival to Chat GPT.
Why did Elon Musk leave OpenAI?
Elon Musk is one of the founding members of OpenAI. Despite still being listed as a sponsor of the company, Musk departed from the Board of Directors in 2018.
Unsurprisingly, Musk took to Twitter to explain why he left the AI company. He says in a tweet: “I had to focus on solving a painfully large number of engineering & manufacturing problems at Tesla (especially) & SpaceX.”
He also claims there were conflicting developments occurring at Tesla which made his role in the company difficult. Moreover, he quite simply states that he “didn’t agree with some of what (the) OpenAI team wanted to do”.
There are a lot of reasons there. But, most of them stem from his commitment to Tesla and perhaps a different vision for the future of OpenAI.
Who owns OpenAI?
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that transitioned to a “capped-profit” organization back in 2019. The firm was co-founded by major tech leaders, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, alongside other prominent Silicon Valley figures.
OpenAI LP is overseen by OpenAI’s board which consists of Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and Sam Altman alongside other non-employee members.
Final Thoughts
Chat GPT has become wildly popular with users across the globe. The tech firm, OpenAI, has done an outstanding job of delivering AI technology to the public. But what is next for the company?
Rumor has it that the organization is seeking to expand into robotics and has already formed partnerships with major players in the tech industry. It appears that OpenAI plans to utilize its capabilities for these companies, making its technology widespread.
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