[camjw]

I know this is just a short history but I think it is inaccurate to say "2015: Ilya Sutskever founds OpenAI." I get that we all want to know what he saw etc and he's clearly one of the smartest people in the world but he didn't found OpenAI by himself. Nor was it his idea to?

[trashtester]

Ilya may not be the only founder. Sam was coordinating it, Elon provided vital capital (and also access to Ilya).

But out of the co-founders, especially if we believe Elon's and Hinton's description of him, he may have been the one that mattered most for their scientific achievements.

[espadrine]

Short histories remove a lot of information, but it would be impractical to make it book-sized. There were numerous founders, and as another commenter mentioned, Elon Musk recruited Ilya, which soured his relationship with Larry Page.

Honestly, those are not the missing parts that most matter IMO. The evolution of the concept of attention across many academic papers which fed to the Transformer is the big missing element in this timeline.

[jll29]

> but it would be impractical to make it book-sized

Not really:

History: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11279 (75 pp.)

Survey: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7828 (88 pp.)

Conveniently skim-read over the course of the four weekends on one month.