Evan Ratliff’s feature on Guy Ravine and the real origin of OpenAI.
Guy Ravine originated Open AI/OpenAI in 2015. Much of the court reporting reduces this to a fight over “the OpenAI trademark and open.ai domain” and follows OpenAI’s telling of events; the fuller history is in the counter-complaint. The deepest independent account is Bloomberg Businessweek’s feature by Evan Ratliff.
Evan Ratliff’s feature on Guy Ravine and the real origin of OpenAI.
The appeal challenging the summary judgment is now before the Ninth Circuit.
We fundamentally disagree with the summary judgment and are appealing.
Judge Collins’s dissent called the lower court’s findings “confusing, internally inconsistent, and inadequately explained.”
Community discussion of the Bloomberg feature — it “casts a shadow over OpenAI’s origin story.”
Bloomberg Technology segment with Evan Ratliff on the story behind the feature.
On the counterclaim: the co-founders took the idea of an open AI venture — and Ravine held the first federal “Open AI” registration.
Read the counter-complaint we filed against Altman, Brockman and OpenAI.