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OpenAI Takes Its Mask Off: Another restructure, and the clearest signal yet of what the company really is
Another restructure, and the clearest signal yet of what the company really is
To top it off, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg reported that OpenAI is planning to turn away from its nonprofit roots and become a for-profit enterprise that could be valued at $150 billion. In the six months following the release of GPT-2, OpenAI would make many more announcements, including Altman stepping into the CEO position, its addition of a for-profit arm technically overseen and governed by the nonprofit, and a new multiyear partnership with, and $1 billion investment from, Microsoft. That was when I first noticed a growing divergence between OpenAI’s public facade, carefully built around a narrative of transparency, altruism, and collaboration, and how the company was run behind closed doors: obsessed with secrecy, profit-seeking, and competition.
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