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Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?

The creation of a new market is like the start of a long race. When in 2017 researchers at Google published a paper describing a revolutionary machine-learning technique they christened the “transformer", OpenAI’s boffins realised that they could scale it up by combining untold quantities of data scraped from the internet with processing oomph. “We’re not for everybody," says Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer and its financial guru. OpenAI’s most recent model, GPT-4, is estimated to have cost around $100m to train, several times more than GPT-3. The fact that OpenAI’s models are a black box also reduces its appeal to some potential users, including large businesses concerned about data privacy.

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