Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, and other tech luminaries founded OpenAI in San Francisco as a non-profit artificial intelligence research company with a $1 billion funding pledge. Their explicit mission was to build safe, open-source Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity, serving as an institutional counterweight to hyper-centralized big tech monopolies.
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Top 5 Structural Foundations: Origins
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