OpenAI
Organization referenced as the early developer of versions of ChatGPT; one of Hinton's students left OpenAI citing safety concerns.
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Videos Mentioning OpenAI

Ep. 220: The Two Types Of Ambition
Cal Newport
A research organization focusing on AI, mentioned as a potential affiliation for a location-independent professional.

High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
Latent Space
Mentioned as the current employer of C Chan, who previously worked at Tesla with Karpathy. Also, the company behind GPT-3 and ChatGPT, whose release prompted Jason Lou to apologize for his prior dismissal of LLMs.
![Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jX1nuoTs2WU/maxresdefault.jpg)
Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
Latent Space
Mentioned as a provider of closed models like GPT, influencing content owners to block crawling. The scale of their training budget is implicitly referenced when discussing compute requirements.

Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?: A Conversation with Mustafa Suleyman (Episode #332)
Sam Harris
Company known for its advancements in LLMs like GPT, with a philosophy of open development.
![Best of 2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/76EL7YVAwVo/maxresdefault.jpg)
Best of 2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Latent Space
Mentioned as the creator of Sora and for their advancements in large language models and potentially vision capabilities.

Breaking down the OG GPT Paper by Alec Radford
Latent Space
Developed GPT and published the paper 'Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-training'.
![The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HM1d7kMebEI/maxresdefault.jpg)
The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Latent Space
Leading AI research lab, whose models were previously dominant but now face increased competition.

E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
All-In Podcast
David Friedberg's 2023 business prediction, which turned out to be a huge winner with massive revenue and market cap gains.

Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
Latent Space
Mentioned as a provider of powerful planning models, alongside clouds, that Codium's systems integrate with.

0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Latent Space
AI research and deployment company, developer of ChatGPT and other models. Discussed in the context of their strategy to build products on top of their APIs and their models' performance.
![[Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VIqXNRsRRQo/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx
Latent Space
Mentioned for their embedding offerings, which are typically a starting point due to existing API keys, though not always the best performing. They were the first to acknowledge the relevance of Matryoshka embeddings.

Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
All-In Podcast
The AI research and deployment company at the center of a recent drama involving CEO Sam Altman's firing and rehiring, and a major breakthrough called Q*.

The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
Latent Space
Collaborated with Anthropic on creating Sweet-Bench Verified by manually reviewing and filtering tasks to ensure they are fully doable.
![[Paper Club] BERT: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V64q3p7DNjc/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Paper Club] BERT: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
Latent Space
A research organization that develops AI models. Mentioned in the context of infrastructure and potential API mirroring practices before switching to BERT.

Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
Latent Space
A research organization where Stanislas Polu worked before founding Dust.tt. It was a significant part of his career, particularly in AI research.

Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
Latent Space
A rival company in the AI space, notably for its announcement of ChatGPT and its influence on Fireworks AI's strategic direction. Also mentioned in the context of advanced models like GPT-4 and Sora.

Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
Latent Space
Discussed in the context of AI safety, its products, and potential competition with Lindy AI.

Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
All-In Podcast
AI research and deployment company that held Developer Day, releasing powerful tools like Dolly 3 API and a custom GPT builder. Discussed as building a platform business model.
![[Paper Club] Intro to Diffusion Models and OpenAI sCM: Simple, Stable, Scalable Consistency Models](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/epwgOz8mZMw/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Paper Club] Intro to Diffusion Models and OpenAI sCM: Simple, Stable, Scalable Consistency Models
Latent Space
Mentioned as the source of many cutting-edge research papers in this field, including potentially using techniques discussed.

Personal AI Meetup - Bee, BasedHardware, LangChain LangFriend, Deepgram EmilyAI
Latent Space
Mentioned in the context of their API for LLM interaction and Whisper for transcription.

Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
Latent Space
David Luan was an early hire at OpenAI, serving as VP of Engineering for over two years, and involved in leading large model initiatives.
![[Paper Club] SWE-Bench [OpenAI Verified/Multimodal] + MLE-Bench with Jesse Hu](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ULcwHlxfSkQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Paper Club] SWE-Bench [OpenAI Verified/Multimodal] + MLE-Bench with Jesse Hu
Latent Space
Mentioned as the creator of the Verified work for SWE-Bench and as a provider of models (like GPT-4) and API credits, with a research team focused on coding.

At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang
Y Combinator
Mentioned for its 'Universe' project, which uses virtual 3D environments to train robots, an example of leveraging AI with less need for physical data collection.

E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
All-In Podcast
AI research and deployment company discussing a $1 billion funding round and potential consumer device design with Jony Ive.