The history of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, which Elon Musk helped found before parting ways and criticizing – Business Insider Africa

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OpenAI has taken the world by storm since its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, went viral upon its release in November 2022.
The company counts Elon Musk among its cofounders, though he has since cut ties and become a vocal critic of it (while launching his own competitor). Since then, OpenAI CEO and cofounder Sam Altman has become a household name, and even survived an ousting by his board.
OpenAI has kept busy, releasing updates to its massively popular chatbot at a rapid pace as well as new products, like the image-generation tool DALL-E and its upcoming video-generation tool Sora.
Last week, it showed off its latest AI model, the omnimodal GPT-4o, which can do things like translate conversations in real time and assess your physical surroundings to reason and problem-solve.
But the story of OpenAI started years before the first version of ChatGPT was launched to the masses.
Here’s a look at how OpenAI came to be one of the biggest players in the industry.
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