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Interestingly, it is not the companies investing money that have stipulations.

But full exclusivity deals are less common.

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Notably, SSI was co-founded byIlya Sutskever, who also co-founded OpenAI.

Microsoft and NVIDIA were part of this funding round, which saw $6.6 billion invested into OpenAI.

Apple was reportedly interested in being involved butbacked out at the last minute, according to reports.

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Musk, who issuing OpenAIat the moment, has xAI.

NVIDIA debuted itsopen-source advanced AI modelthis week.

OpenAI needs to continue to improve its models and roll out new features to compete.

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Withoperating costs measured in the billions, OpenAI will have to find ways to better monetize its platform.

That could include costlysubscription fees ofco up to $2,000 per month.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted thatdeveloping tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted content is impossible.

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But he also claims thatcopyright law does not prohibit using copyrighted content to train AI models.

Those stances and the actions of OpenAI have led to the company facing severalcopyright infringement lawsuits.

Altman claims that AI superintelligence could be “a few thousand days” away.

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Many, including a former OpenAI researcher, claim thatOpenAI is not preparedto handle that achievement.

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