OpenAI started as a non-profit in 2015 with initial sponsors chipping in money to get it off the ground
The original premise was to create open and safe AI, which seems at odds with how quickly OpenAI was built in just 13 days
OpenAI was intended to be the anti-Google or the anti-Facebook, with a focus on humanitarian AI that was safe and responsible
TikTok is opening up a “Transparency and Accountability Center” to try to win over skeptics. Is the company’s strategy working? Then, the origin story of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how the company kicked off an A.I. arms race.
Plus: A co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, hopes to make a “TikTok for text.”
On today’s episode:
Kevin Systrom is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of Instagram.
Additional reading:
TikTok is taking a more aggressive approach toward lobbying.