OpenAI
is an American research organization with commercial operations, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit. In 2019, it established a capped-profit subsidiary to attract investment, including from . It is widely recognized for its work in and , notably the (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model family, including and , and , a conversational product rather than a model in that series. Other notable systems include for , for and speech-to-text transcription, and for , whose associated product availability has changed over time. OpenAI’s stated mission centers on ensuring that benefits humanity, with research and development encompassing , , and the training and deployment of large-scale .
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Ethics, safety & society
Moving as fast as the field, and easier to overlook
- Explainable AI
- Interpretability
- Model Card
- AI Audit
- Algorithmic Bias
- Disparate Impact
- Digital Divide
- WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
- AI Alignment
- Red Teaming
- EU AI Act
- NIST AI RMF (AI Risk Management Framework)
- Frontier Model
- Deepfake
- Content Credentials
- AI Watermarking
- Job Displacement
- Prompt Injection
- Data Poisoning
- Differential Privacy
- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
- Zero-Day
- End-to-End Encryption
- Data Broker
Infrastructure, markets & the economy
The compute, power and capital behind the boom