Elon Musk, one of the founding members of the artificial intelligence research laboratory and the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, once tried taking over the firm and failed.
According to a report by Semafor, Musk considered giving up on OpenAI, the AI research firm he helped create with other notable people, after feeling it had fallen behind Google in 2018.
According to sources, Musk suggested taking over OpenAI and becoming its boss, but the other founders, including current CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, rejected his proposal, leading to his departure from the company and an unfulfilled promise.
Soon, Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors, citing a conflict of interest due to Tesla’s development of AI for autonomous driving. While that was what Musk said, some at OpenAI did not believe it was why he went, especially after a speech by Musk was not received well by employees.
Musk backs out, Microsoft steps in
Despite promises to continue funding $1 billion to the lab, Elon Musk did not donate to OpenAI after his departure, leaving the nonprofit unable to afford the high costs of training AI models on supercomputers. Then, OpenAI announced the creation of a for-profit entity in 2019 to raise capital.
Within six months, OpenAI received $1 billion from Microsoft, which provided funding and infrastructure expertise. Together both built a supercomputer that trained massive models, including ChatGPT and DALL-E, and GPT-4, the latest language model, has 1 trillion parameters.
In November, last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT went on to become the hottest new tech in the town, sending Google and almost every other tech giant into a frenzy.
There was one other person who was not happy with the success of ChatGPT. Any guesses? It is none other than Elon Musk, the early backer of OpenAI.
Musk, who had just bought Twitter then, was angry and pulled OpenAI’s access to the Twitter “firehose” of data. He tweeted his frustration in a number of tweets, even questioning how a non-profit he donated to became a for-profit controlled by Microsoft with a $30B market cap.
Since then, ChatGPT has been on everyone’s mind and well-integrated into every other service of Microsoft. Meanwhile, Google has the Bard out of the bag now. And not just that, many companies have either partnered with OpenAI for its AI model or have been building one of their own.
According to a report by Semafor, Musk considered giving up on OpenAI, the AI research firm he helped create with other notable people, after feeling it had fallen behind Google in 2018.
According to sources, Musk suggested taking over OpenAI and becoming its boss, but the other founders, including current CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, rejected his proposal, leading to his departure from the company and an unfulfilled promise.
Soon, Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors, citing a conflict of interest due to Tesla’s development of AI for autonomous driving. While that was what Musk said, some at OpenAI did not believe it was why he went, especially after a speech by Musk was not received well by employees.
Musk backs out, Microsoft steps in
Despite promises to continue funding $1 billion to the lab, Elon Musk did not donate to OpenAI after his departure, leaving the nonprofit unable to afford the high costs of training AI models on supercomputers. Then, OpenAI announced the creation of a for-profit entity in 2019 to raise capital.
Within six months, OpenAI received $1 billion from Microsoft, which provided funding and infrastructure expertise. Together both built a supercomputer that trained massive models, including ChatGPT and DALL-E, and GPT-4, the latest language model, has 1 trillion parameters.
In November, last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT went on to become the hottest new tech in the town, sending Google and almost every other tech giant into a frenzy.
There was one other person who was not happy with the success of ChatGPT. Any guesses? It is none other than Elon Musk, the early backer of OpenAI.
Musk, who had just bought Twitter then, was angry and pulled OpenAI’s access to the Twitter “firehose” of data. He tweeted his frustration in a number of tweets, even questioning how a non-profit he donated to became a for-profit controlled by Microsoft with a $30B market cap.
Since then, ChatGPT has been on everyone’s mind and well-integrated into every other service of Microsoft. Meanwhile, Google has the Bard out of the bag now. And not just that, many companies have either partnered with OpenAI for its AI model or have been building one of their own.
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