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| 2015 || {{dts|December 11}} || || {{w|OpenAI}} is announced to the public. (The news articles from this period make it sound like OpenAI launched sometime after this date.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/science/artificial-intelligence-research-center-is-founded-by-silicon-valley-investors.html |date=December 11, 2015 |publisher=[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded by Silicon Valley Investors |author=John Markoff |accessdate=July 26, 2017 |quote=The organization, to be named OpenAI, will be established as a nonprofit, and will be based in San Francisco.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/introducing-openai/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Introducing OpenAI |date=December 11, 2015 |accessdate=July 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/11/non-profit-openai-launches-with-backing-from-elon-musk-and-sam-altman/ |date=December 11, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Artificial Intelligence Nonprofit OpenAI Launches With Backing From Elon Musk And Sam Altman |author=Drew Olanoff |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|January}} || Staff || {{W|Ilya Sutskever}} joins OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aiwatch.issarice.com/?person=Ilya+Sutskever |date=April 8, 2018 |title=Ilya Sutskever |publisher=AI Watch |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|January 9}} || || The OpenAI research team does an AMA ("ask me anything") on r/MachineLearning, the subreddit dedicated to machine learning.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/404r9m/ama_the_openai_research_team/ |publisher=reddit |title=AMA: the OpenAI Research Team • r/MachineLearning |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|March 31}} || Staff || A blog post from this day announces that {{W|Ian Goodfellow}} has joined OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/team-plus-plus/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Team++ |date=March 22, 2017 |first=Greg |last=Brockman |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|April 26}} || Staff || A blog post from this day announces that {{W|Pieter Abbeel}} has joined OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/welcome-pieter-and-shivon/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Welcome, Pieter and Shivon! |date=March 20, 2017 |first=Ilya |last=Sutskever |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|April 27}} || Software || The public beta of OpenAI Gym, an open source toolkit that provides environments to test AI bots, is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/openai-gym-beta/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=OpenAI Gym Beta |date=March 20, 2017 |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-plan-to-set-artificial-intelligence-free/ |title=Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free |date=April 27, 2016 |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |accessdate=March 2, 2018 |quote=This morning, OpenAI will release its first batch of AI software, a toolkit for building artificially intelligent systems by way of a technology called "reinforcement learning"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/openai-has-launched-a-gym-where-developers-can-train-their-computers-2016-4?op=1 |first=Sam |last=Shead |date=April 28, 2016 |title=Elon Musk's $1 billion AI company launches a 'gym' where developers train their computers |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
| 2016 || {{dts|June 21}} || Publication || "Concrete Problems in AI Safety" is submitted to the {{w|arXiv}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565 |title=[1606.06565] Concrete Problems in AI Safety |date=June 21, 2016 |accessdate=July 25, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|July}} || Staff || Dario Amodei joins OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dario-amodei |title=Dario Amodei - Research Scientist @ OpenAI |publisher=Crunchbase |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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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>
| 2016 || {{dts|December 5}} || 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|January}} || Staff || Paul Christiano joins OpenAI to work on AI alignment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://paulfchristiano.com/ai/ |title=AI Alignment |date=May 13, 2017 |publisher=Paul Christiano |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> He was previously an intern at OpenAI in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/team-update/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Team Update |date=March 22, 2017 |accessdate=May 6, 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+safety |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI safety) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref> The grant initiates a partnership between Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI, in which {{W|Holden Karnofsky}} (executive director of Open Philanthropy Project) joins OpenAI's board of directors to oversee OpenAI's safety and governance work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/openai-general-support |publisher=Open Philanthropy Project |title=OpenAI — General Support |date=December 15, 2017 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> The grant was criticized by {{W|Maciej Cegłowski}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/848009582492360704 |title=Pinboard on Twitter |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=May 8, 2018 |quote=What the actual fuck… “Open Philanthropy” dude gives a $30M grant to his roommate / future brother-in-law. Trumpy!}}</ref> and Benjamin Hoffman (who would write the blog post "OpenAI makes humanity less safe")<ref>{{cite web |url=http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/openai-makes-humanity-less-safe/ |title=OpenAI makes humanity less safe |date=April 13, 2017 |publisher=Compass Rose |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nqn2tkAHbejXTDKuW/openai-makes-humanity-less-safe |title=OpenAI makes humanity less safe |accessdate=May 6, 2018 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=OpenAI |title=OpenAI donations received |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> among others.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10211478311489366 |title=I'm having a hard time understanding the rationale... |accessdate=May 8, 2018 |first=Vipul |last=Naik}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|April}} || || An article entitled "The People Behind OpenAI" is published on {{W|Red Hat}}'s ''Open Source Stories'' website, covering work at OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories/ai-revolutionaries/people-behind-openai |title=Open Source Stories: The People Behind OpenAI |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |first1=Brent |last1=Simoneaux |first2=Casey |last2=Stegman}} In the HTML source, last-publish-date is shown as Tue, 25 Apr 2017 04:00:00 GMT as of 2018-05-05.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/63xr4p/profile_of_the_people_behind_openai/ |publisher=reddit |title=Profile of the people behind OpenAI • r/OpenAI |date=April 7, 2017 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14832524 |title=The People Behind OpenAI |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |date=July 23, 2017}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|October 11}} || Software || RoboSumo, a game that simulates {{W|sumo wrestling}} for AI to learn to play, is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/story/ai-sumo-wrestlers-could-make-future-robots-more-nimble/ |title=AI Sumo Wrestlers Could Make Future Robots More Nimble |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-openai-virtual-robots-learn-sumo-wrestle-soccer-sports-ai-tech-science-2017-10 |first1=Alexandra |last1=Appolonia |first2=Justin |last2=Gmoser |date=October 20, 2017 |title=Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company created virtual robots that can sumo wrestle and play soccer |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|November 6}} || Staff || ''{{W|The New York Times}}'' reports that {{W|Pieter Abbeel}} (a researcher at OpenAI) and three other researchers from Berkeley and OpenAI have left to start their own company called Embodied Intelligence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/technology/artificial-intelligence-start-up.html |date=November 6, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December}} || Publication || The 2017 AI Index is published. OpenAI contributed to the report.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/1/16723238/ai-artificial-intelligence-progress-index |date=December 1, 2017 |publisher=The Verge |title=Artificial intelligence isn't as clever as we think, but that doesn't stop it being a threat |first=James |last=Vincent |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
