OpenAI, co-founded by Sam Altman (left), is considered a leader in the world's artificial intelligence market – one of the main investors is Microsoft and its CEO Satya Nadella.archiveBild: cornerstone
US company OpenAI is further expanding its presence in Europe and has poached three artificial intelligence researchers from its main rival.
December 4, 2024 13:25December 4, 2024 13:31
OpenAI was recently valued at $157 billion. As announced on Wednesday, the American company has now opened a branch in Zurich.
Three leading researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) will work in the city of Limmat. The statement described Zurich as one of Europe's leading technology hubs. Tech giant Google has been there for 20 years.
Meanwhile, OpenAI announced the hiring of three world-leading researchers in the field of so-called “artificial intelligence.” multimodal artificial intelligence known. They all previously worked at archrival Google:
- Lucas Bayer Become an expert in machine learning systems that support multimodal artificial intelligence. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at Google and DeepMind for six and a half years.
- Alexander Kolesnikov Played a key role in the further development of vision-based artificial intelligence. Previously, he worked as a researcher at Google and DeepMind for six and a half years.
- Xiaohua Zhai Brings extensive experience in multimodal learning and computer vision. He has worked at Google and DeepMind for more than ten years.
“While each of the three individually achieved significant research breakthroughs, their collaboration over the past six years has resulted in groundbreaking advances in the field of multimodal artificial intelligence.”
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Multimodal AI refers to language models that can handle a variety of user inputs (prompts), including text, images, audio, and program code. The development of such large language models (LLMs) requires significant funding and expertise.
OpenAI has expanded its presence in Europe over the past two years, opening new offices in Dublin, London, Paris and Brussels, the statement said.
Controversy with Elon Musk
The US company is a non-profit organization founded in 2015 by Tesla boss Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, among others. Currently, it aims to become a “benefit corporation” – a non-profit, for-profit company – to attract more investment.
Musk resigned in 2018 and has taken legal action against OpenAI several times since then. Most recently, he described the company as “a de facto for-profit subsidiary of Microsoft.”
Tesla boss Musk has repeatedly warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence, even describing artificial intelligence as “our greatest existential threat.” At the same time, the world's richest man in the stock market is investing heavily in artificial intelligence and founded his own artificial intelligence development company, xAI.
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Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in March over its business adjustments. In the lawsuit, the tech billionaire argued that the company is a nonprofit organization. However, it is now actually a for-profit subsidiary of software company Microsoft.
With the release of the first version of chatbot ChatGPT in 2022, OpenAI is making generative AI technology available to a broad audience for the first time. OpenAI, under the leadership of its boss Altman, has become a global market leader in artificial intelligence.
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