The Big Changes Tearing OpenAI Apart

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In less than two years, OpenAI—the company behind ChatGPT—has gone from a little-known nonprofit lab to a world-famous organization at the forefront of an artificial intelligence revolution. But the company has faced a series of challenges, culminating last week in another high-profile departure and the decision to become a for-profit corporation. WSJ’s Deepa Seetharaman discusses the permanent change to OpenAI's ethos and what it could mean for the AI industry. Further Listening: - Artificial: The OpenAI Story - Artificial: Episode 1, The Dream Further Reading: - Turning OpenAI Into a Real Business Is Tearing It Apart - OpenAI’s Complex Path to Becoming a For-Profit Company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Open AI, the company behind Chat GPT has had a lot of drama in the past year. There was the sudden firing and almost immediate rehiring of its CEO.
0:18.0	Sam Altman is back as the chief executive of Open AI.
0:22.0	After that, a bunch of Open AI. After that, a bunch of Open AI's top scientists quit.
0:27.0	These are just the latest in a string of departures leading many to wonder just what is going on over there.
0:32.0	The company also very publicly found
0:34.7	itself in hot water for training its chatbot on copyrighted material.
0:38.7	Hollywood Mega Star Scarlet Johanson is taking on one of the biggest names in tech, open AI co-founder Sam Altman.
0:47.6	And then, last week, a couple other bombs dropped. The company's chief technology officer announced she was
0:54.5	stepping down just as news broke that open AI was remaking itself from a nonprofit
1:00.7	to a for-profit corporation.
1:03.8	It's a seismic shift for a company that when it was founded,
1:07.4	pledged to develop artificial intelligence
1:09.5	for the public interest.
1:11.7	The Wall Street Journal's owner, News Corp, has a content licensing partnership
1:15.3	with Open AI.
1:20.2	Our colleague Deepa C. Theraman has reported on open AI's entire saga.
1:25.8	What has it been like covering open AI?
1:29.2	Dynamic.
1:31.8	Great word.
1:33.0	Yes, it's been really fast moving and there'll be lulls and then all of a sudden a bunch of stuff will happen all on top of each other which basically underscores the fact that it's the time of chaos in this company's life.
1:50.0	I mean you have this company that is going through tremendous change and so you're seeing
1:56.1	in real time a company tearing itself apart.
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