Epistemic Overview
OpenAI has academic collaborations and licensing arrangements with universities including Oxford.
Research Domains
Timeline
Dec 2015
OpenAI is founded as a non-profit research lab by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others.
2019
OpenAI restructures as a 'capped-profit' company and receives a $1 billion investment from Microsoft.
Jun 2020
OpenAI publishes the 'GPT-3' (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) paper, 'Language Models are Few-Shot Learners'.
Nov 30, 2022
OpenAI launches 'ChatGPT', a public-facing conversational AI, which becomes the fastest-growing app in history.
Mar 2023
OpenAI launches 'GPT-4', its next-generation multimodal model.
2024
OpenAI engages with Oxford (e.g., the Institute for Ethics in AI) for policy and safety discussions.
Influential Papers / Notable Research
GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series: The foundational models (e.g., GPT-3, GPT-4) powering ChatGPT.
DALL-E: AI system that generates novel images from natural language text descriptions.
Codex / GitHub Copilot: An AI model that can write and suggest code, trained on billions of lines of source code.