The Rise of OpenAI - Building Artificial General Intelligence for the Future

The mention of OpenAI starting as a nonprofit and transitioning to a for-profit entity effectively catches the audience's attention. The hook is engaging and thought-provoking.
It actually started as a nonprofit It was backed by Sam Altman who used to run MyCombinator as well as the billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel And it was formed with the idea of creating an artificial general intelligence This is a real kind of sci-fi AI one that is conscious self-learning that could theoretically rethink capitalism as Sam Altman has said or could potentially outstrip human control Building that AGI was something that OpenAI could not do as a nonprofit It couldn't raise enough money to do this so it needed to create a for-profit entity OpenAI does that in 2019 and that's when Sam Altman becomes CEO full-time And not long after we've seen the company become a key ally to Microsoft which has reportedly invested $10 billion recently at a $29 billion valuation This current wave that we're seeing this generative AI wave has been kind of building up for the last couple months now really hitting an inflection point probably summer of 2022.