CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that OpenAI’s complicated corporate structure as a for-profit endeavor under the umbrella of a non-profit is set to change, “likely sometime next year,” reports Fortune.
The reconfiguring, which has been rumored before, would reportedly shift the company “away from being controlled by a non-profit.” OpenAI told the outlet that the “non-profit is core to our mission and will continue to exist.”
OpenAI unveiled the first in a series of “reasoning” models on Thursday, accompanied by a safety card highlighting some alarming capabilities. It’s also the first time the startup has rated a model “medium” risk.
The weirdest part, as Transformer points out, is that the researchers found that the new model “sometimes instrumentally faked alignment during testing” and would strategically manipulate “task data in order to make its misaligned action look more aligned”.
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That’s 1 million paid users for corporate services including ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and ChatGPT Edu for universities, Bloomberg reports. Enterprise pricing varies, but one person claimed it could cost “around $60 per user per month” with a 150 user minimum and a one-year contract, according to TechCrunch.
I always thought the only way AI might make some cash is through enterprise software bundling, especially with all the free users.
OpenAI’s ex-chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who left not long after attempting to oust fellow co-founder Sam Altman, has now raised $1 billion for his competing lab, Safe Superintelligence (SSI). Backers include a16z, which has opposed California’s AI safety bill, and OpenAI investor Sequoia.
SSI’s CEO tells Reuters there’s no product yet, and there likely won’t be one for a few years.
