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OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Founded: December 2015
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA

AI Development Timeline

Track the evolution of OpenAI's AI technologies and key milestones.

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GPT-4o Release

Model Release

OpenAI released GPT-4o, a multimodal model with significantly improved speed, cost efficiency, and capabilities across text, vision, and audio.

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Sora Text-to-Video Model

Model Release

OpenAI unveiled Sora, a text-to-video model capable of generating realistic and imaginative scenes from text prompts, demonstrating significant advancements in video generation technology.

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GPT-4 Release

Model Release

OpenAI released GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept image and text inputs and produce text outputs, demonstrating human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.

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22

ChatGPT Launch

Product Launch

OpenAI launched ChatGPT, an interactive conversational model based on GPT-3.5, which quickly became one of the fastest-growing consumer applications in history, reaching 100 million users within two months.

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22

DALL-E 2 Announcement

Model Release

OpenAI announced DALL-E 2, a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from natural language descriptions, with improved resolution and accuracy compared to the original DALL-E.

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21

Codex Model

Model Release

OpenAI released Codex, a model that translates natural language to code, powering GitHub Copilot and capable of interpreting simple commands in natural language and executing them.

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21

DALL-E Announcement

Model Release

OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a neural network that creates images from text captions, demonstrating the ability to combine concepts, attributes, and styles in creative ways.

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20

GPT-3 Paper Published

Research Publication

OpenAI published the paper introducing GPT-3, a 175-billion parameter language model that demonstrated remarkable few-shot learning capabilities across a wide range of tasks.

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19

Transition to Limited Profit Company

Company Milestone

OpenAI transitioned from a non-profit to a 'capped-profit' company called OpenAI LP, with the goal of raising capital while still serving its mission.

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19

GPT-2 Release

Model Release

OpenAI announced GPT-2, a 1.5-billion parameter language model capable of generating coherent paragraphs of text, but initially withheld the full model due to concerns about potential misuse.

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OpenAI Five Dota 2 Team

Research Project

OpenAI introduced OpenAI Five, a team of five neural networks that learned to play the complex game Dota 2 through self-play and eventually competed against professional human players.

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OpenAI Founded

Company Milestone

OpenAI was founded as a non-profit artificial intelligence research company by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, and Wojciech Zaremba, with the goal of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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