OpenAI co-founder on company's past approach to openly sharing research: 'We were wrong' - The Verge

The closed approach is a marked change for OpenAI, which was founded in 2015 by a small group including current CEO Sam Altman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (who resigned from its board in 2018), and Sutskever. In an introductory blog post, Sutskever and others said the organization's aim was to "build value for everyone rather than shareholders" and that it would "freely collaborate" with others in the field to do so. OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit but later became a "capped profit" in order to secure billions in investment, primarily from Microsoft, with whom it now has exclusive business licenses.