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OpenAI · 2015-12-11
openai.com announcement
“OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.”
Both sentences are in the founding pile. The blog kept one. The cap table kept the other. Mission-split is not a later fall. It is two audiences on day one.
The tell · Read the launch post next to the compensation sentence. The company is the space between them.
How this became public: Musk v. Altman exhibits; Business Insider founding-mail story.