What’s common between Sam Altman, the ChatGPT founder and Sundar Pichai, the man behind Google’s success? Both went to…
Sam Altman vs Sundar Pichai: Two of the most popular names that are often taken with high respect in the technology world today are Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Both Sam Altman and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have earned fame in the technology world for their respective innovations in the technology world. While Sam Altman built a chatbot named ChatGPT, Sundar Pichai built a browser that reached almost every phone and laptop named Google Chrome. However, do you know that both the tech leaders share a common point in their academic lives.
What’s common between Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai?
As per media reports, both Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai attended Stanford University, a key commonality in their careers. For those unversed, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. The university is also known as the Hogwarts of Silicon Valley, is famous for producing technology stalwarts.
Who are Sam Altman and Sundar Pichai?
Sam Altman is a Stanford dropout who went on to co-found Y Combinator and later become the CEO of OpenAI, a company that transformed the Artificial Intelligence world with the launch of ChatGPT.
On the other hand, Sundar Pichai belongs from a modest family of Chennai, India. He earned advanced degrees (MS and MBA) after studying engineering. Sundar progressed through Google—from leading Chrome’s development to becoming CEO of Google and eventually Alphabet.
OpenAI continues to be overseen and controlled by nonprofit: Sam Altman
Sam Altman-run OpenAI will continue to be overseen and controlled by the nonprofit and its ‘for profit LLC’ will transition to a public benefit corporation (PBC), giving the nonprofit better resources to support several benefits, the company has announced.
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit, and is today overseen and controlled by that nonprofit.
“Going forward, it will continue to be overseen and controlled by that nonprofit. Our for-profit LLC, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)–a purpose-driven company structure that has to consider the interests of both shareholders and the mission,” the ChatGPT maker said in a statement.
(With inputs from agencies)
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