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Jeremy Kahn

Sam Altman bemoans being on "wrong side of history" with a major aspect of AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on stage sitting in a chair gesturing with his left hand. (Credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi—Getty Images)

yes, we are discussing. i personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy; not everyone at openai shares this view, and it's also not our current highest priority.

That’s a big deal coming from the head of a lab that, while originally founded on the principle of open-sourcing all its research and models, has for the past several years been fully invested in a proprietary AI model, where users can only interact with its software through an application programming interface (API).

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