OpenAI: From lofty ideals to chatbot stardom in 7 years
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Founded in 2015 by high-profile tech leaders and AI experts, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with over $1 billion in funding
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Released the OpenAI Gym in 2016 for developing and testing reinforcement learning algorithms
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In 2018, OpenAI Five beat professional players at complex video game Dota 2 and Elon Musk departed OpenAI's board
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Transformed from non-profit to for-profit status in 2019 through $1 billion partnership with Microsoft
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Launched revolutionary natural language AI models GPT-3 (2020), Codex, and DALL-E (2021), culminating in widespread success of ChatGPT chatbot (late 2022)