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Nonprofit research lab OpenAI is announced, with $1 billion pledged

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Announced the founding of OpenAI as a nonprofit research organization, with $1 billion in funding pledged

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The launch of the organization that would become the starting point for the GPT series and the shift to commercialization

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Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/

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