OpenAI’s Altman Concentrates Power on Path to Massive Funding (1)

Five years ago, OpenAI was a scrappy startup run by a handful of executives, with a heavy emphasis on research. The company was so concerned about people misusing its latest artificial intelligence model — a text-generating program known as GPT-2 — that it initially decided not to release the software.

The OpenAI of today bears little resemblance to its earlier self. Since sparking an AI frenzy in late 2022 with the release of its ChatGPT chatbot, OpenAI has been rolling out and selling ever-more sophisticated AI services that can write, speak and draw to a growing number of businesses and ...