2010
DeepMind founded by English scientists – Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Shane Legg. Funding from Peter Thiel (PayPal) and Elon Musk (Tesla).
DeepMind Original Logo (2010)
2014
DeepMind sold to Google.
Musk not happy with Google as little influence. Founds OpenAI with Sam Altman.
2015
OpenAI founded by Sam Altman*, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Wojciech Zaremba*, John Schulman, Andrei Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Vicki Cheung
2017
September
September 21, 2017 – Atlantic Crypto founded by Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, an Brannin McBee and Peter Salanki. Operated as a crypto mining company mining ethereum using GPUs
2018
Cryptocurrency crash
2019
Atlantic Crypto renames to CoreWeave. Provides cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPUs) infrastructure to AI developers
2023
August
OpenAI acquireG Global Illumination – deploys AI to develop digital infrastructure and creative tools.
2024
June
OpenAI acquire Multi – remote collaboration
2025
February – Elon Musk tries to buy OpenAI – rejected (the holding non-profit)
March – OpenAI acquire $350M share of CoreWeave. Gets access to AI infrastructure (GPUs)(Microsoft CW biggest customer)
May – OpenAI acquires io AI hardware start-up for $6.5billion (with a B) founded in 2024
September – OpenAI acquire product testing startup Statsig for $1.1B in
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