December 2015
Sam Altman co-founds OpenAI
OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. launched in December 2015 with Sam Altman as co-chair — a research lab aimed at safe artificial general intelligence.
What it was for
OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. pivoted from nonprofit research to the APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. and ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users. products that triggered the generative AIModels that create new content — text, images, audio, or code — from learned patterns. boom. Altman became the public face of frontier model deployment and developer-facing LLMLarge language model — a neural network trained on vast text to generate and reason about language. APIs.
People
- Sam Altman — co founder
Companies
- OpenAI
Why it's here
OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. under Altman defined the consumer and APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. LLMLarge language model — a neural network trained on vast text to generate and reason about language. era.
Why it mattered
It moved frontier models from labs into everyday software products.
What it solved
Powerful AI was locked in research without safe, accessible deployment paths.
Media
ImageSam Altman首相官邸ホームページ, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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