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Valve CEO Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an "informal advisory board" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 106 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

A lot has changed since 2018 fwiw

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 74 points 10 hours ago

OpenAI used to be a public benefit company. Or it called itself one anyway

https://qz.com/openai-abandons-the-pretense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_OpenAI

[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago

And a lot was different back then