In 2015, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and a handful of AI researchers and technologists met at a fancy Silicon Valley hotel to discuss an exciting possibility: Could they build an AI as smart or smarter than a human? Less than a year later, OpenAI was born.

OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit research lab with lofty ideals. It wouldn’t just build groundbreaking AI—it would do it for the benefit of all of humanity.