The early days of artificial intelligence research had a community feel — to openly share ideas, and work together to improve technologies. But for some, especially hardware makers, handing over control of AI to a few wealthy tech companies is bad for business. These companies are supporting an emerging open source movement, so AI technologies are cheap and accessible.

The company started in 2015 as a nonprofit with the aim to promote and share AI research.

Besides OpenAI, tech giants Google, Facebook, and Nvidia are developing their own Large Language Models and deploying them to hardware.

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