Zack Kass

GPT-3 comes out in February, 2021.

It's our first dollar, so first dollar that OpenAI will ever make.

Prior to GPT-3, by the way, there was no product you could buy from OpenAI.

A lot of OpenAI's history was building robotics or even multi-agent games like Dota.

It was trying to solve real-world stuff and then the large text model became the particular interest.

But GPT-3 comes out and it's popular among researchers, but it's not particularly popular among companies.

And I'm actually traveling around the world at the time with one of my best friends on earth, Boris Power, who officiated my wedding.

And Boris and I are showing, he's the head of research engineering, and we're showing people this GPT-3.

We go into the boardrooms, and we put it up on the board, and we demo our product.

And we finish the demo, and we go, oh, what do you think?

And these guys go, I don't care.

I don't care.

And for a long time, and this happened 10 or 15 times before we figured out, for a long time, we were like, man, these guys are corporate bozos.

They're going to get smoked.

They're going to get left behind.

And then we realized that actually something else was going on, which is that the model, GBD-3, was still slow.

It was expensive, and it wasn't actually that good.

It wasn't actually commercially or economically viable.

And so after a while in these demos, we'd show a demo for like five minutes.

In fact, we did this once in June, 2021.