Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model
I think the folks working at OpenAI are really good at what they do and I respect them immensely, but as an outsider, OpenAI-the-company as originally imagined has been completely transformed. The frog has been boiled, so to speak:<p><i></i>[2015]<i></i> Founded as a non-profit, designed to democratize and share research benefiting humanity<p><i></i>[2018]<i></i> Releases GPT, open sourcing code and paper<p><i></i>[2019]<i></i> Shares info on GPT-2, doesn't release out of concerns about "malicious applications"<p><i></i>[2019]<i></i> Changes structure to a for-profit* company<p><i></i>[2020]<i></i> Shares info on GPT-3, commercializes model via closed API<p><i></i>[2020]<i></i> Exclusively licenses their GPT-3 model to Microsoft<p>I'd like to believe that there's a non-cynical take here, and I'm curious if folks working there are still fully bought into the mission with all the changes.<p>* Profit capped at 100x is <i>entirely</i> for-profit in practice, especially since there's nothing stopping them from raising the cap.