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| 2016 || {{dts|July 8}} || Publication || "Adversarial Examples in the Physical World" is published. One of the authors is {{W|Ian Goodfellow}}, who is at OpenAI at the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/07/fool-ai-seeing-something-isnt/ |title=How To Fool AI Into Seeing Something That Isn't There |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |date=July 29, 2016 |first=Cade |last=Metz |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|August 15}} || || The technology company {{W|Nvidia}} announces that it has donated the first {{W|Nvidia DGX-1}} (a supercomputer) to OpenAI. OpenAI plans to use the supercomputer to train its AI on a corpus of conversations from {{W|Reddit}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/08/15/first-ai-supercomputer-openai-elon-musk-deep-learning/ |title=NVIDIA Brings DGX-1 AI Supercomputer in a Box to OpenAI |publisher=The Official NVIDIA Blog |date=August 15, 2016 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fortune.com/2016/08/15/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-openai-nvidia-supercomputer/ |title=Nvidia Just Gave A Supercomputer to Elon Musk-backed Artificial Intelligence Group |publisher=Fortune |first=Jonathan |last=Vanian |date=August 15, 2016 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://futurism.com/elon-musks-openai-is-using-reddit-to-teach-an-artificial-intelligence-how-to-speak/ |date=August 17, 2016 |title=Elon Musk's OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak |first=Cecille |last=De Jesus |publisher=Futurism |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|November 15}} || || A partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft's artificial intelligence division is announced. As part of the partnership, Microsoft provides a price reduction on computing resources to OpenAI through {{W|Microsoft Azure}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/15/13639904/microsoft-openai-ai-partnership-elon-musk-sam-altman |date=November 15, 2016 |publisher=The Verge |first=Nick |last=Statt |title=Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk's OpenAI to protect humanity's best interests |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/11/next-battles-clouds-ai-chips/ |title=The Next Big Front in the Battle of the Clouds Is AI Chips. And Microsoft Just Scored a Win |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |first=Cade |last=Metz |accessdate=March 2, 2018 |quote=According to Altman and Harry Shum, head of Microsoft new AI and research group, OpenAI's use of Azure is part of a larger partnership between the two companies. In the future, Altman and Shum tell WIRED, the two companies may also collaborate on research. "We're exploring a couple of specific projects," Altman says. "I'm assuming something will happen there." That too will require some serious hardware.}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|December5}} || Software || OpenAI's Universe, "a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications", is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/openai/universe |accessdate=March 1, 2018 |publisher=GitHub |title=universe}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/05/openais-universe-is-the-fun-parent-every-artificial-intelligence-deserves/ |date=December 5, 2016 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=OpenAI's Universe is the fun parent every artificial intelligence deserves |author=John Mannes |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/12/openais-universe-computers-learn-use-apps-like-humans/ |title=Elon Musk's Lab Wants to Teach Computers to Use Apps Just Like Humans Do |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103742 |title=OpenAI Universe |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|March}} || Financial || The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30 million to {{w|OpenAI}} for general support.<ref name="donations-portal-open-phil-ai-risk">{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donor.php?donor=Open+Philanthropy+Project&cause_area_filter=AI+risk |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI risk) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|March 3}} || || OpenAI hosts its first hackathon.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/hackathon/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=OpenAI Hackathon |date=February 24, 2018 |accessdate=March 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/hackathon-follow-up/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Report from the OpenAI Hackathon |date=March 15, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|April 5}}{{snd}}June 5 || || The OpenAI Retro Contest takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://contest.openai.com/ |title=OpenAI Retro Contest |publisher=OpenAI |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/retro-contest/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Retro Contest |date=April 13, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref> As a result of the release of the Gym Retro library, OpenAI's Universe become deprecated.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/openai/universe/commit/cc9ce6ec241821bfb0f3b85dd455bd36e4ee7a8c |publisher=GitHub |title=openai/universe |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|April 9}} || || OpenAI releases a charter. The charter says in part that OpenAI commits to stop competing with a value-aligned and safety-conscious project that comes close to building artificial general intelligence, and also that OpenAI expects to reduce its traditional publishing in the future due to safety concerns.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/openai-charter/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=OpenAI Charter |date=April 9, 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/e5mFQGMc7JpechJak/openai-charter |title=OpenAI charter |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |date=April 9, 2018 |author=wunan |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8azk2n/d_openai_charter/ |publisher=reddit |title=[D] OpenAI Charter • r/MachineLearning |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794194 |title=OpenAI Charter |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/04/10/the-ai-company-elon-musk-co-founded-is-trying-to-create-sentient-machines/ |title=The AI company Elon Musk co-founded intends to create machines with real intelligence |publisher=The Next Web |date=April 10, 2018 |author=Tristan Greene |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
