Musk confused how non-profit OpenAI became $30 bn profit-making firm

As Microsoft-owned OpenAI rakes in huge moolah after its ChatGPT AI conversational chatbot, Elon Musk on Thursday once more raised questions over how a non-profit has grow to be a $30 billion maximum-profit firm for Satya Nadella-run tech large.

Musk had donated $100 million to OpenAI. He stepped down from OpenAI’s board of administrators in 2018 and not owns a stake within the firm.

“I’m nonetheless confused as to how a non-profit to which I donated $100 million in some way became a $30 billion market cap for-profit. If that is authorized, why does not everybody do it?” he quipped.

He has additionally paused OpenAI entry to Twitterdatabase.

OpenAI was based as a non-profit synthetic intelligence analysis firm in 2015.

Its analysis director was Ilya Sutskever, one of many world specialists in machine studying and CTO was Greg Brockman, previously the CTO of Stripe.

OpenAI’s co-chairs had been Sam Altman and Musk.

The Twitter CEO in February this yr additionally raised the identical query, saying OpenAI was created as an open supply (which is why I named it “Open” AI), a non-profit firm to function a counterweight to Google.

“But now it has grow to be a closed-source, maximum-profit firm successfully managed by Microsoft. Not what I meant in any respect,” he posted, criticising Microsoft for making income by way of OpenAI.

The AI chatbot ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI which is now a Microsoft firm, has grow to be a rage and the tech large has infused $10 billion into it to make it extra helpful for throughout industries.

(With inputs from IANS)