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As OpenAI attracts billions in new investment, its goal of balancing profit with purpose is getting more challenging to pull off

  • Written by Alnoor Ebrahim, Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business, Tufts University
As OpenAI attracts billions in new investment, its goal of balancing profit with purpose is getting more challenging to pull offWhat's in store for OpenAI is the subject of many anonymously sourced reports.AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct. 2, 2024, it announced that it had obtained US$6.6 billion in new funding from investors and that...

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