If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon of ChatGPT yet, it is a Chatbot trained by Open AI, which works on their Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) models. It is the fastest to gain 1 million users, that is, in 5 days!
You can call it your friendly AI assistant, who knows the answers to pretty much everything. It can help right from your daily task list to generating code. It’s heading towards being the next big thing in the world of tech.
It relies on human feedback and Large Language Model (LLM) to learn about the real world and gather information about it. Currently offering Free and Paid services both, ChatGPT will change the way we search and gather information.
ChatGPT Founders: Who Owns ChatGPT
ChatGPt was founded in 2015 by the likes of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and other industry giants. Some other founders are Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever. They started off as a non-profit organization with the goal of advancing general intelligence (AGI) in a safe and beneficial manner for humanity.
In an effort to raise more capital and serve its mission at the same time, Open AI diversified into Open AI LP, a new “capped profit,” and also to ensure that employees and investors get a capped return if they succeed in their mission.
Does Microsoft own ChatGPT?
Apart from the contrary belief, Microsoft does not own Open AI. But Microsoft is a lead investor for Open AI, which recently extended its collaboration with Open AI.
Microsoft has already adopted Open AI’s GPT 4 module into its signature chatbot “Bing AI” for further advancements in the internet searching genre.
Why did Elon Musk leave ChatGPT?
Elon Musk, who was one of the co-founders and lead advisor for Open AI, reportedly provided initial funding for the company and proved to be an important advisor.
Musk parted ways with the company because he wanted to focus more on the ongoing challenges back then at Tesla and SpaceX.
Is ChatGPT a publicly listed company?
Open AI is not a listed company on the stock exchange, and hence, direct investments are not possible in the company.
It is still a non-profit, with its board acting as governing body for all Open AI activities.
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What does the future hold for ChatGPT?
That said, Open AI is not just about ChatGPT and is much more than just a chatbot. Open AI has recently launched ChatGPT Plus with a subscription model with the capability of using a live search engine to break its knowledge limits.
It is one of the pioneers in AI text-to-image generators and are proud brains behind DALL E 2.
They are also working on Whisper API, which is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data. It is basically a speech-to-text model providing human-level accuracy.
FAQs: Who Owns ChatGPT
Many other worthy players give tough competition to ChatGPT. First is ChatGPT Plus itself and others such as Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing AI.
ChatGPT has an application for iOS devices, a free-to-use app that syncs your history across devices.
Currently only available in the United States, Open AI will expand to other countries in the future.
