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Report: The Openness of AI | A Contrary Research Deep Dive

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Have a different take on our research? Want to contribute to this piece? Send our research team a note. Email us Disclosure: Contrary is an investor in Nomic and Replit through one or more affiliates. Kyle Harrison: General Partner @ Contrary. Kyle leads Contrary’s investing efforts for companies at Series A and beyond. He’s previously worked at firms like Index and Coatue, and has invested in companies like Databricks, Snowflake, Cohere, and Replit*. Andriy Mulyar: Co-Founder @ Nomic*. Prior to Nomic, Andriy was a Ph.D. student at NYU studying interpretable machine learning and an early employee at Rad AI where he built and deployed multi-billion parameter LLMs in 2019. Brandon Duderstadt: Co-Founder @ Nomic*. Nomic is a company aiming to improve the explainability and accessibility of AI models. Before Nomic, Brandon built and deployed AI in several domains, including defense (JHU APL), medicine (Rad AI), and finance (Square). Alex Liu: Research Fellow @ Contrary Research. Alex is al

Actionable Summary As technologists attempted to make artificial intelligence a reality, machine learning and data science rose to prominence as incremental progress. As Moore’s Law progressed and the internet brought about the age of “big data”, the stage began to be set for the acceleration of AI capabilities. In 2015, OpenAI was founded as a non-profit with a focus on building AI for everyone. As OpenAI’s research progressed, the company’s emphasis increasingly became focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI). In March 2017, OpenAI’s leadership decided the company’s non-profit status

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