OpenAI is a U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015, researching artificial intelligence with the declared intention of developing “safe and beneficial” artificial general intelligence, which it defines as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work”. As one of the leading organizations of the AI Spring, it has developed several large language models, advanced image generation models, and previously, also open-source models. Its release of ChatGPT has been credited with starting the artificial intelligence spring.
The organization consists of the non-profit OpenAI, Inc. registered in Delaware and its for-profit subsidiary OpenAI Global, LLC. It was founded by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk serving as the initial board members. Microsoft provided OpenAI Global LLC with a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a $10 billion investment in 2023, with a significant portion of the investment in the form of compute resources on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.
As of 2021, OpenAI’s research focused on reinforcement learning (RL). OpenAI is viewed as an important competitor to DeepMind.
Announced in 2016, Gym aims to provide an easily implemented general-intelligence benchmark over a wide variety of environments—akin to, but broader than, the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge used in supervised learning research. It hopes to standardize how environments are defined in AI research publications, so that published research becomes more easily reproducible. The project claims to provide the user with a simple interface. As of June 2017, Gym can only be used with Python. As of September 2017, the Gym documentation site was not maintained, and active work focused instead on its GitHub page.
OpenAI is launching $10M in grants to support technical research towards the alignment and safety of superhuman AI systems, including weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight, and more.
Benefits
- They are offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers.
- For graduate students, they are sponsoring a one-year $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship: $75K in stipend and $75K in compute and research funding.
Eligibilities
- Open to academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers.
** No prior experience working on alignment is required; they are actively looking to support researchers who are excited to work on alignment for the first time.
Eligible Regions: Open for all.Application Process
- Eligible candidates should apply through the organisation’s official web portal with the necessary documents. The web portal can be accessed by clicking on the “Apply Now” button below.
Application Deadline: February 18, 2024
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