{"id":138226,"date":"2023-09-02T04:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=138226"},"modified":"2023-09-02T04:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:42:57","slug":"openai-just-bought-a-game-studio-but-why-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/openai-just-bought-a-game-studio-but-why-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Just Bought a Game Studio\u2014But Why? – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ChatGPT developer OpenAI announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Global Illumination, saying the entire team has joined OpenAI and will work on various projects, including ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited for the impact they\u2019ll have here at OpenAI,\u201d OpenAI said in a brief statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Co-founded by engineers Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon, and designer Joey Flynn in 2021, New York-based Global Illumination<\/a> is the company behind the MMORPG Minecraft-clone Biomes<\/a>. The young firm comes with an impressive pedigree, with team members having cut their teeth on projects for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, and Riot Games.<\/p>\n

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OpenAI has acquired the team at Global Illumination. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT. The team previously designed and built products early on at Instagram and Facebook and have also made significant contributions at YouTube,\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 OpenAI (@OpenAI) August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The move, and scant details, have prompted speculation on whether OpenAI might get into developing customized environments, or get more broadly into gaming\u2014perhaps adding a touch of AIs to NPCs.<\/p>\n

Although not a gaming company, OpenAI’s acquisition of Global Illumination certainly sees value to the team, if not its metaverse tech.<\/p>\n

Global Illumination CEO Thomas Dimson is the original author of Instagram\u2019s content ranking algorithms and served as Director of Engineering at Instagram; CPO Joey Flynn worked as a designer at Meta\u2019s Facebook and Instagram; and CTO Taylor Gordon worked as an engineer at Facebook AI, Instagram, and YouTube.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Fast Company<\/i><\/a> named Dimson one of the most creative people\u00a0when Dimson, Alex Karpenko, and Chris Connolly launched Hyperlapse for Instagram, letting smartphone users create time-lapse videos.<\/p>\n

An advocate of open-source technology, Dimson has both supported and criticized calls to open-source algorithms. Last year, Dimson called<\/a> OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk\u2019s call to open-source the Twitter algorithm valid but overly simplistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe call for transparency is valid, and it can begin with disclosure into experiments similar to the one I led at Instagram,\u201d Dimson said. \u201cUseful transparency, I\u2019d argue, lies in open-source experimentation rather than algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helping OpenAI make acquisitions like Global Illumination is a treasury of over $13 billion, amassed partly due to Microsoft’s investments, which integrated ChatGPT into its Bing browser<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n

Last month, OpenAI removed access to the \u201cBrowse with Bing\u201d feature in the subscription-based GPT-4 after abuse by users.<\/p>\n

“We have learned that the ChatGPT Browse beta can occasionally display content in ways we don’t want,” OpenAI wrote<\/a> in a post.<\/p>\n

OpenAI has not yet responded to Decrypt\u2019s<\/i> request for comment.<\/p>\n

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ChatGPT developer OpenAI announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Global Illumination, saying the entire team has joined OpenAI and will work on various projects, including ChatGPT. \u201cWe\u2019re very excited for the impact they\u2019ll have here at OpenAI,\u201d OpenAI said in a brief statement. Co-founded by engineers Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon, and designer Joey Flynn in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-138226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148153,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138226\/revisions\/148153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}