The competitors include Anthropic, Elon Musk’s xAI, and Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup launched by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. These companies directly compete with OpenAI in advancing large language models,

A symbolic move: xAI has moved into the Pioneer Building at 3180 18th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District, the very office space where OpenAI began its journey in 2015. T

OpenAI received $6.6 billion in investment recently and is now valued at $157 billion. Interestingly, OpenAI does not want it its investors to fund competition and has reportedly shared a list of companies to stay away from.