The story
OpenAI began as a nonprofit research lab after a dinner in Menlo Park. It bet on scaling models, and ChatGPT was estimated at 100 million users about two months after launch in late 2022.
No. 041 · 2015 · San Francisco
OpenAI
A nonprofit dinner on Sand Hill. Then a low-key preview.
Fastest-growing app of its day
Make my startup a legend- 1 2015. A dinner at the Rosewood.
- 2 A nonprofit. Pledged: $1B.
- 3 Years of robot hands and video games.
- 4 Then they scale one idea: bigger models.
- 5 Nov 2022. A "low-key research preview."
- 6 100 million users in two months.
- 7 Nov 2023: fired on Friday. Back by Wednesday.
- 8 Now the math is in gigawatts.
- Founders
- Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever and others
- Founded
- 2015, San Francisco
- What they do
- ChatGPT and the GPT models.