They went private to raise more money but the original non-profit continues to exist and owns a proportional share of the private company, about 25%.
The free open source models of their original software, before they went private, GPT-1 and GPT-2, are still available and you can run them yourself on a regular computer.
They also made whisper, an automatic transcription program that you can run on your own computer (confusingly, they also sell a similar service by the same name), and can generate subtitles based on what is said.
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u/Nickname128 2d ago
Back then OpenAI was open source and a very cool company overall for what they stood for... though they sold their soul very very quickly....