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| 2019 || {{Dts|March 11}} || Organization || OpenAI announces the creation of OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company owned and controlled by the OpenAI nonprofit organization’s board of directors. The new company is purposed to allow OpenAI to rapidly increase their investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize their mission.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Khari |title=OpenAI launches new company for funding safe artificial general intelligence |url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/11/openai-launches-new-company-for-funding-safe-artificial-general-intelligence/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Trazzi |first1=Michaël |title=Considerateness in OpenAI LP Debate |url=https://medium.com/@MichaelTrazzi/considerateness-in-openai-lp-debate-6eb3bf4c5341 |website=medium.com |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{Dts|March}} || Staff || {{w|Sam Altman}} leaves his role as the president of {{w|Y Combinator}} to become the {{w|Chief executive officer}} of OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sam Altman’s leap of faith |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/18/sam-altmans-leap-of-faith/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=24 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down amid a series of changes at the accelerator |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/y-combinator-president-sam-altman-is-stepping-down-amid-a-series-of-changes-at-the-accelerator/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=24 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{Dts|April 23}} || AI development || OpenAI announces Sparse Transformers, a deep neural network for learning sequences of data, including text, sound, and images. It utilizes an improved algorithm based on the attention mechanism, being able to extract patterns from sequences 30 times longer than possible previously.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Alford |first1=Anthony |title=OpenAI Introduces Sparse Transformers for Deep Learning of Longer Sequences |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/05/openai-sparse-transformers/ |website=infoq.com |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=OpenAI Sparse Transformer Improves Predictable Sequence Length by 30x |url=https://medium.com/syncedreview/openai-sparse-transformer-improves-predictable-sequence-length-by-30x-5a65ef2592b9 |website=medium.com |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Generative Modeling with Sparse Transformers |url=https://openai.com/blog/sparse-transformer/ |website=openai.com |accessdate=15 June 2019}}</ref>
