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OpenAI Timeline

(2015 - Present)

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory that aims to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Explore the timeline to learn more about OpenAI's history and important milestones. More Less

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Events

Founding of OpenAI

Dec 14, 2015

OpenAI, a research institute focused on artificial intelligence (AI) driven by safety and ethics concerns, is founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman.

Gym library release

Feb 16, 2016

OpenAI releases the Gym library, an open-source platform designed to help developers and researchers in the field of reinforcement learning test and evaluate their algorithms on a wide range of problems.

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol match

Mar 9, 2016 - Mar 15, 2016

The historic five-game Go match between Google DeepMind's AlphaGo and world champion Lee Sedol ends with AlphaGo winning four out of five matches, demonstrating the power of AI in complex strategic games.

Dota 2 AI Bot "OpenAI Five"

Aug 15, 2018 - Aug 25, 2018

OpenAI's AI system "OpenAI Five" competes in a series of matches against professional human players in the popular video game Dota 2. OpenAI Five demonstrates remarkable teamwork and strategic decision-making abilities.

GPT-2 Language Model Release

Feb 14, 2019

OpenAI introduces GPT-2, a large-scale unsupervised language model capable of generating coherent paragraphs of text, which generates significant excitement and raises concerns about potential misuse of AI-generated content.

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GPT-2 Language Model Release

Partnership with Microsoft

Jul 22, 2019

OpenAI forms a partnership with Microsoft, allowing OpenAI to leverage Microsoft's extensive resources and cloud infrastructure to further advance its research and development in AI.

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Partnership with Microsoft

OpenAI Charter Release

Apr 9, 2020

OpenAI publishes its Charter, outlining its mission, principles, and commitment to cooperative deployment of AI to ensure broad benefits and avoidance of harmful uses.

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OpenAI Charter Release

GPT-3 Language Model Release

Jun 11, 2020

OpenAI unveils GPT-3, a groundbreaking language model with 175 billion parameters, capable of performing a wide range of natural language processing tasks, revolutionizing AI-driven text generation.

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GPT-3 Language Model Release

OpenAI IPO Announcement

Apr 12, 2021

OpenAI announces its plans for an initial public offering (IPO), aiming to secure additional funding and expand its scope of projects and initiatives.

Key Facts

  1. OpenAI was founded in December 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, and Wojciech Zaremba.
  2. The organization is focused on creating AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which refers to highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
  3. In 2019, OpenAI unveiled GPT-2, a language model capable of generating human-like text that raised concerns about potential misuse.
  4. OpenAI launched the GPT-3 model in June 2020, which gained widespread attention for its ability to generate coherent and contextually relevant text.
  5. In March 2021, OpenAI introduced a new API allowing developers to access and utilize the capabilities of GPT-3 in various applications.

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