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:[2015] Founded as a non-profit, designed to democratize and share research benefiting humanity[2018] Releases GPT, open sourcing code and paper[2019] Shares info on GPT-2, doesn't release out of concerns about "malicious applications"[2019] Changes structure to a for-profit* company[2020] Shares info on GPT-3, commercializes model via closed API[2020] Exclusively licenses their GPT-3 model to MicrosoftI'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.* Profit capped at 100x is entirely for-profit in practice, especially since there's nothing stopping them from raising the cap.