ChatGPT , appeared in early December, quickly resonated with the ability to answer questions, write texts, build scripts … according to users’ preferences. ChatGPT is called “super AI” by the technology world.
ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI. Before that, this company also released some other AI GPT-3 and Dall-E 2 that made an impression and were highly appreciated.
In the last three years, OpenAI under the direction of young CEO Sam Altman — co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, has achieved some great achievements.
Sam Altman, born in 1985, was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, of Jewish descent.
When he was eight years old, Sam Altman’s mother, a dermatologist, gave him his first computer. It was it that helped him shape his future later.
Altman studied computer science at Stanford, but dropped out in 2005 to co-found and become CEO of Loopt, a mobile app and location-based social network that raised $30 million. . But in 2012, Loopt had to close down because it failed to attract attention and was later acquired for $43.4 million.
In 2011, Altman started working as a part-time partner at popular startup incubator Y Combinato. In February 2014, at the age of 29, he was appointed president of the company by co-founder Paul Graham. In 2016, he became the Chairman of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator and others, aiming to fund 1,000 startups per year.
In 2017, he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Waterloo.
In 2019, Altman resigned from YC to focus on OpenAI.
OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Altman with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and many other members with the goal of promoting technology for the benefit of humanity, not pursuing corporate profits.
The company is headquartered in the Mission District, San Francisco. When Altman took the helm in late 2019, he flew to Seattle to demonstrate his latest AI model to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and received $1 billion in funding. The deal gives OpenAI the resources to train and improve AI algorithms, but also gives Microsoft a strategic foothold in the AI race.
OpenAI under Altman has achieved many achievements, especially in 2022. AI Dall-E 2 allows users to use text strings to create works of art, and ChatGPT is described as super-intelligent AI. Smart, multi-talented, can “answer everything like a real person”.
Altman with his new approach helped the initial investors in OpenAI receive a return of 100 times the original contribution. However, this also breaks the company’s non-profit ethos. Many argue that this CEO has gone against the purpose of making research transparent and avoiding enriching shareholders.
According to the WSJ, OpenAI is valued at about $14 billion. The company is currently negotiating the sale of employee-owned shares.
Recently, Altman also did not hide his business intentions for OpenAI. According to an insider source, OpenAI sold the code to other developers and made tens of millions of dollars.
While products like ChatGPT are being appreciated, Altman acknowledges the fact that the actual program’s output contains many bugs and is dangerous “it’s confident”.
Altman rarely shares about his personal life. From a very young age he admitted that he was gay and was a vegan since childhood.