We resisted making any changes to our offerings for as long as we could. IPv6 addresses remain free.Īkamai faces the same macroeconomic headwinds of growing costs for data center space, energy, and hardware as other providers.
Our shared Nanode plan remains unchanged at US$5 per month.Īdditional IPv4 IP addresses will increase from US$1 to US$2 per month. The price of Shared and Dedicated compute plans will increase by 20%. The company’s decision was likely a result of its desire to compete with Big Tech rivals like Google and ended up receiving a $1 billion investment shortly after from Microsoft.Īrtificial Intelligence Business ChatGPT Elon Musk Microsoft Open-source Software Web In its founding statement, the company declared its commitment to research “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” The blog stated that “since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact,” and that all researchers would be encouraged to share “papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world.”īy March 2019, OpenAI shed its non-profit status and set up a “capped profit” sector, in which the company could now receive investments and would provide investors with profit capped at 100 times their investment. OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research organization by Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, among other tech leaders. While the firm has always looked toward a future where AGI exists, it was founded on commitments including not seeking profits and even freely sharing code it develops, which today are nowhere to be seen. This blog post and OpenAI’s recent actions-all happening at the peak of the ChatGPT hype cycle-is a reminder of how much OpenAI’s tone and mission have changed from its founding, when it was exclusively a nonprofit.
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