OpenAI is now one of the world's most talked-about companies, and the ongoing legal spat between co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has resulted in some truly juicy revelations around exactly what was going on in the firm's earliest years. One example: it turns out Gabe Newell gave the company over $20 million, and was the sole member of its "informal advisory board" in 2018.
One of the first times OpenAI attracted wider attention was when one of its bots defeated pro Dota 2 player Danil "Dendi" Ishutin in a 1v1 match at the 2017 The International (TI) tournament. This "much simpler" variant was then built out into an AI called the OpenAI Five, a bot that taught itself Valve's MOBA through the simple technique of playing 180 years' worth of games against itself every single day. The goal was to beat a human team in a 5v5 matchup, and it did.
