• krolden@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I thought they were always for profit.

    Edit: apparently they used to be but technically so are churches.

    They were never going to open source anything past gpt2 and the ‘open’ in their name is just to have a public image of them not being evil.

    OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research organization by Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, among other tech leaders.

    Yesh, definitely not evil