OpenAI Mafia

In 2015, Elon Musk, alongside Sam Altman and other prominent Silicon Valley leaders, including Peter Thiel, Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman and India's former Infosys chief Vishal Sikka among others,

Since its founding,?OpenAI?has grown significantly and has?attracted top talent?in the field of artificial intelligence. It has also formed?strategic partnerships?with companies like?Microsoft,?Shutterstock, and others. The company is also pioneering some of the latest advancements in the field of AI, including the?breakthroughs in transformer models?like?GPT-3.5?and open-source GPU programming language?Triton, alongside?ChatGPT, text-to-image?DALL.E 2, multilingual speech recognition system?Whisper, auto-coding platform Codex (GitHub Copilot) and others.?

Interestingly, it has successfully produced tech entrepreneurs, who are now leading cutting-edge projects across industries. This includes?Anthropic,?Pilot,?Covariant,?Adept,?Living Carbon,?Quill?(acquired by Twitter),?Daedalus, and others. In the last five years, close to 30 employees have left OpenAI to start their own AI ventures – aka?'OpenAI Mafia,'?a large majority of them belong to senior to mid leadership roles.

And some are even in junior roles. In 2021, a former research intern at OpenAI,?Anish Athalye, started?Cleanlab, a data-centric AI platform that automatically finds and fixes errors in ML datasets. Another former research engineer at OpenAI,?Taehoon Kim, recently founded?Symbiote AI, a real-time, 3D avatar generation platform.?

It is fascinating to see new tech entrepreneurs born out of the?OpenAI ecosystem, which is acting as a training ground for future AI leaders. "For a company like ours, the researchers and engineers that create the tech have far more impact than the CEO,"?said?Altman.

OpenAI currently has about 375 employees and published close to 13 research papers last year, followed by nine in 2021. It has also set up a?Startup Fund?to identify talent early on and help them in their journey. A quick look at its work culture shows that OpenAI encourages its employees to take creative risks in pursuit of advancements in AI and emphasis on collaboration, open communication and more.?

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