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A comment on OpenAI LP.

Re:OpenAI LP by chaseadam17 on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:42PM (#19361603)
Presumably OpenAI created a lot of IP with donor dollars under the original nonprofit entity. Who owns that IP now? I imagine it got appraised and sold by the original nonprofit to the new OpenAI LP. That seems like a difficult process, given no one really knows what this type of IP is worth. If this is what happened, who did that appraisal and how was it done?

If no IP was sold to the new OpenAI LP because some or all of the IP created under the original nonprofit OpenAI was open sourced, will the new OpenAI LP continue that practice?

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Re:OpenAI LP by gdb on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:50PM (#19361680)
(I work at OpenAI.)

See my tweet about this: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1105173883378851846

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Re:OpenAI LP by david2016 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:42AM (#19414256)
> We had the fair market value of anything transferred from the nonprofit to the LP determined by an outside firm.

Greg, would you please elaborate more on this part of your tweet? Also, can the OpenAI LP commercialize work/research produced by OpenAI non-profit? Can you use grants that were raised by the non-profit into recruiting for the LP?

Thanks for talking questions and engaging in conversations to make things clear for our community.

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