On December 7, "Time" magazine announced the best CEO of 2023 - Sam Altman of OpenAI on its official website.
In addition, Messi was selected as the best athlete of the year, Taylor Swift was selected as the best person of the year, and Alex Newell won the annual breakthrough award.
"Time" magazine released a list of "The 100 Most Influential People in the Field of AI in 2023" on September 8 this year.
Robin Li, CEO, chairman and co-founder of Baidu, Kai-fu Lee, chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and Sam were named global AI industry leaders.
After OpenAI released ChatGPT, it took only 2 months to become the fastest-growing consumer application in the world, and then released one of the most powerful models, GPT-4.
With the help of a series of innovative products, Sam built OpenAI into a hot technology company in Silicon Valley with a valuation of over US$80 billion.
Then in November this year, the sudden recall of the board of directors turned Sam into a homeless "down-and-out child", which also affected the nerves of the global media.
After five days of continuous flipping farce, Sam staged the return of the king like Steve Jobs of Apple, but he still feels incredible about the incident.
Sam has experienced a script that is more dreamlike than "Inception" in such a short period of time, and he is well-deserved for this selection.
OpenAI start-up history
Let’s take the timeline back to 2015, that hot summer. At that time, Sam found Ilya Sutskever, a well-known machine learning researcher at Google Brain.
The two had dinner at a burger restaurant near Google's headquarters and talked about their views on AI and AGI. By the time the two finished their meal, Sam felt that he had found the person he wanted.
Subsequently, Sam found Stripe Chief Technology Officer Greg Brockman and well-known artificial intelligence scientist Wojciech Zaremba, and discussed with Musk the idea of forming a non-profit AI company.
In December 2015, OpenAI was officially established. The founding board members include Sam, Musk, Ilya, and Greg. In addition, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel pledged to donate $1 billion to OpenAI.
It is worth mentioning that OpenAI, which was originally established, did not have a CEO. Sam only participated in the daily affairs of OpenAI remotely. At that time, his main energy was in the Y Combinator incubator.
In 2018, OpenAI proposed a core development concept: to provide AGI technology to humans in a safe and stable way. Ilya became the biggest advocate of this idea.
As a developer, Ilya is well aware of the power of neural networks. Through training with massive data, it can generate various texts and understand your intentions.
But when its neurons and training data reach a certain level, it may go out of control, which also lays the foundation for future "removal events".
In the same year, Musk wanted to serve as the CEO of OpenAI because of his development philosophy, but he failed. Then he quit the board of directors and left OpenAI completely.
In 2019, OpenAI has released a series of products such as GPT, GPT-2, and Gym. However, despite poor revenue, development costs are getting higher and higher. The two investors who promised to invest US$1 billion at the time only gave US$130 million.
In March of the same year, OpenAI announced the reorganization of the company from a non-profit company to a for-profit company, hoping to obtain investment from investors to continue to help OpenAI blood transfusion, and Sam became CEO.
Subsequently, Sam found his savior in Microsoft and soon received $1 billion. With the support of Microsoft's large amount of funds and AI computing power, in 2020, OpenAI released the 175 billion parameter GPT-3 model, which was also the most powerful model at the time. Microsoft also made its first attempt at commercializing the model.
In November 2022, ChatGPT, a generative AI chat robot based on the GPT-3.5 model, was officially released. In just two months, it has swept all industries around the world and become a hall of fame application.
Everyone knows what happened after that. OpenAI successively released a series of super functions such as GPT-4, plug-in functions, code parser, DALL·E 3, GPT-4 Turbo, custom GPT, etc., becoming a generative AI The absolute leader in the field.
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