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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 OpenAIas Research Director.<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>
| 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>
| 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>
