On Friday 17th November 2023, something strange happened to Open Ai , the well known #chatGPT Artificial Intelligence company with it's HQa in San Francisco. It's CEO was fired and others soon followed. But here's what I know about the company and it's "Ai".
I will keep on adding to this blog post over the coming days/weeks, as this unfolds. Please share this blog. You can contact me at my website : www.dsoundz.co.uk
Note: Please click on the links you see in this document, as they will take you directly to and cite to plenty of evidence in this research document.
Note: All research here is written by me - Sam Downie , please cite to me.
Note: this document is in a draft stage so expect spelling errors until they get corrected.
First I'll start with a introduction and a few questions to ask and consider. I may even throw in a few videos for you to watch and some history to read up on, all about Ai. Then I'll talk about the founder(s) of Open Ai, followed by information about the company. Then I'll talk about how your personal and financial data was used. I'll tell you and inform you about Scams and Fraud, and how the FTC and laws in the USA and the UK protect you as a consumer - Open Ai has never been about security, think about that.
Security wasn't considered.
This document is all part of research I've been doing over the pandemic. At least some of us have been paying attention, watching whats been going on and trying to understand it all and questioning it too.
The History Of It All - How Artificial Intelligence started.
The year was 1963. The place was the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. It was the early days, the time of the civil rights movements, on one side in the Haight-Asbury area of San Francisco the foundation of The Summer of Love in 1967, and on the other side of the Bay in Berkeley at Berkeley University the place where the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement started in 1962.
- Haight-Asbury and The Summer of Love (1967)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury
- Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement (1962)
- https://www.nps.gov/articles/disabilityhistoryrightsmovement.html
What the press reported on, about the Disability Rights movement:
- https://dsp.berkeley.edu/about/dsp-history#:~:text=UC%20Berkeley%20was%20one%20of,opportunities%20for%20persons%20with%20disabilities.
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/08/disability-rights-warrior-hale-zukas-life
- https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/disability-rights-exhibit
And yes, Disabled people (persons) have and did change the world and various legislations still used today such as the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act).
Watch the Oscar nominated Documentary "Crip Camp" (2020), it's a fab watch.
You can WATCH the full feature length documentary on Youtube here, thanks to Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS8SpwioZ4
A year later after it's release, President Barack Obama moderated a conversation with the films directors/producers and subjects of the film. Watch this inspiring chat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG8Vvkn7iPw
In September 2023, at Berkeley UC a new exhibit opened (it's on until February 2024) about Crip Camp and the Disability Revolution. Lots more information including new talks to watch, are on the website found here: https://onthesamepage.berkeley.edu/fall-2023/
Note: if you are disabled, and are a creator of films, animation, documentary's and more, please come and join FWD-Doc a non-profit disabled led group of fun people (including me and the creators of Crip Camp) - the link is : https://www.fwd-doc.org/
So why am I talking about and mentioning Disability in this research about Ai ? well perhaps I'll talk more about it later on, and one of the things I'll talk about, is how Disabled people have been left out and excluded from what Open Ai did and made, and perhaps discriminated against.
And just down the Bay, south from San Francisco, the small beginnings of the "Silicon Valley" formed. And in the 1960's the glimmers of Artificial Intelligence started to appear.
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) was founded by Prof. John McCarthy in the 1960's. John was one of the founding fathers of the field of AI. While the discipline of AI has transformed in many fundamental ways since its inception in the 1950s, SAIL remains a proud leading intellectual hub for scientists and engineers, an education "Mecca" for students, and a center of excellence for cutting edge research work, in Computer Science.
The website for SAIL at Stanford University, can be found here: https://ai.stanford.edu/about/
Unauthorised firm - VISTRA ADVISORS LLC
Address: 465 Columbus Ave, Valhalla, New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NY 10595
Website: www.vistraadvisorsllc.com (which has of course closed down)
Vox Media’s content will enhance the output of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the company will build on OpenAI’s technology to develop products to better serve its audiences.
Openai Inc.
Watch the Emmy award winning short film about SAIL at Stanford University, and the history of Artificial Intelligence, here:
The website for SAIL at Stanford University, can be found here: https://ai.stanford.edu/about/
Question: So what does SAIL have to do with Open Ai ? - the quick answer is.. nothing. Open Ai had no connection to SAIL or any academic research from this university.
So What do the Values say on Ai from this university ? you can find them here:
https://hai.stanford.edu/about/values
Under "Humanity" they state this fact.
We value the well-being of humans and humanity, and are committed to ensuring that the power of AI is used to improve the human condition, not diminish it. As such, we focus on applications that augment and enhance human capabilities rather than simply displacing or replacing them. In a time of increasing automation, we aim to better understand its implications and find technical as well as policy mechanisms to manage this transition. We study the global impact of AI on the economy and society, in hopes of promoting positive outcomes and mitigating the negative.
Open Ai - the company LLC registration.
Open Ai is a private and quite separate entity. Remember this !
What I found strange, was how the company LLC was registered in the UK, in Bristol Southwest England. The company listing is made public when you register, and this can be found here, along with it's directors and company documents.
Link to Companies House (UK):
Company status: ActiveCorrespondence address: Ste 100, 3180 18th Street, San Francisco, United States, 94110
Registered: 21 September 2022
Legal form: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Registered: 21 September 2022
Legal form: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Register location: DELAWARE, USA
Registration number: 3692745
Registration number: 3692745
which links to this company in the UK:
The company directors/officers listed here are:
a) Vistra Cosec LTD
who are based in Bristol, England at this address : First Floor, 10 Temple Back, Bristol, BS1 6FL
Companies House listing here:
Vistra Cosec (also known as Jordans) is a company formations company, and seems to have a longlist of other companies who are well known for money laundering and financial scams (such as Black Rock).
b) Jason Kwon
who is the Counsel for Open Ai and who sits on the board of Open Ai.
Companies House listing: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/4SAc-uGJJDG8UNAR_qlOB-edGzM/appointments
The address listed for Jason is : Suite 1, 3rd Floor, 11-12 St James Square, London SW1Y 4LB
They also updated the address of the comapny to: Suite 1, 7th Floor, 50 Broadway, London, SW1H 0BL
Note: Open Ai LLC / UK was registered on : 21st September 2022.
Therefore Open Ai is a very recent and new company and hasn't been doing Ai for a long time
as its business history is very short.
There are several Company Incorporation documents, that outline the company objectives as well as the shares that each of the directors/companies have. I'll list the links to the PDF documents via the filing information here:
The FCA (Financial Conduct Agency - UK) Warning !
The FCA (Financial Conduct Agency - UK) has a warning out about the company formation company that Open ai used, called Vistra Cosec - here listed as Vistra Advisors LLC, who are the same company with their office based in the USA:
Address: 465 Columbus Ave, Valhalla, New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NY 10595
Website: www.vistraadvisorsllc.com (which has of course closed down)
- Question ? - did Open Ai use this company in the USA to form and register the company
- Question ? - is this a scam company formations company, and was it connected to Open Ai
VOX Media Connection (feb 2024):
So, just to let you know that if you read VOX or The Verge etc, then this partnership is creating a false pretence, and journalists there who report on OpenAi now have conflicts of interest, alas thought they don't declare this.
OpenAi as... a Charity ? :
Yes OpenAi is registered as a charity, a 501(c) on the IRS tax website found here.
Use the search features on this IRS tool to look up the business, listed as :
EIN: 81-0861541
San Francisco, California, United States
Other Names
Other Names
OPENAI INC
And also of note, listed as a "small company" eh?
Form 990-N (e-Postcard)
Organizations who have filed a 990-N (e-Postcard) annual electronic notice. Most small organizations that receive less than $50,000 fall into this category.
Tax Period:
2015 (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)
EIN:
81-0861541
Organization Name (Doing Business as):
OPENAI INC
Mailing Address:
335 Pioneer WayMountain View, CA 94041
United States
Principal Officer's Name and Address:
Chris Clark
335 Pioneer WayMountain View, CA 94041
United States
Gross receipts not greater than:
$50,000
Organization has terminated:
No
Website URL:
The principal officer - Chris Clark - was the Mayor of Mountain View, when he registered OpenAi on the IRS website as a "small company" which didn't earn more than 50,000 dollars.
own website : https://www.electchrisclark.com/
twitter/X : https://x.com/clarkcr
council website : https://californialocal.com/localnews/santa-clara/ca/government/show/80-city-of-mountain-view/representative/123-chris-clark/
April 10, 2024 News : The New spat between Elon Musk and OpenAi - Read the court papers here
Musk V Altman and OpenAi
*why isn't there anyone reading this court case and covering it ?
So what is this spat about ? well, it's about the "charity" side of OpenAi. Seems the company set it up to tax dodge, to funnel funding through as well as make it's users think that it was a not-for-profit, to make it look "good".
News: Sam Altman for President (2014):
News: Sam Altman steps down from.. YCombinator in Mountain View:
News: How Musk and Altman plan to STOP computers (ai) from taking over (the world):
They have collectively pledged more than a billion dollars to be paid over a long time period.
The co-chairs are Musk and Sam Altman, the CEO of Y Combinator, whose research group is also a funder. (As is Altman himself.) Musk, a well-known critic of AI, isn’t a surprise.
But Y Combinator? Yep. That’s the tech accelerator that started 10 years ago as a summer project that funded six startup companies by paying founders “ramen wages” and giving them gourmet advice so they could quickly ramp up their businesses.
Since then, YC has helped launch almost 1,000 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, and Stripe, and has recently started a research division. For the past two years, it’s been led by Altman, whose company Loopt was in the initial class of 2005, and sold in 2012 for $43.4 million. Though YC and Altman are funders, and Altman is co-chair, OpenAI is a separate, independent venture.
Essentially, OpenAI is a research lab meant to counteract large corporations who may gain too much power by owning super-intelligence systems devoted to profits, as well as governments which may use AI to gain power and even oppress their citizenry.
It may sound quixotic, but the team has already scored some marquee hires, including former Stripe CTO Greg Brockman (who will be OpenAI’s CTO) and world-class researcher Ilya Sutskever, who was formerly at Google and was one of the famed group of young scientists studying under neural net pioneer Geoff Hinton in Toronto. He’ll be OpenAI’s research director. The rest of the lineup includes top young talent whose resumes include major academic groups, Facebook AI and DeepMind, the AI company Google snapped up in 2014.
There is also a stellar board of advisors including Alan Kay, a pioneering computer scientist.
wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
In October 2024, the firm subleased 486,600 square feet of offices in two buildings from Uber at 1455 and 1515 Third Street in Mission Bay.
In April, the company behind ChatGPT was nearing a deal to lease a 315,000-square-foot office building from Divco West at 550 Terry Francois Boulevard, at Old Navy’s former headquarters in Mission Bay.
In February, Musk sued OpenAI, alleging the company and its CEO Sam Altman had abandoned its mission by putting profit over public good. The complaint said Musk, through his Musk Industries, had leased OpenAI’s headquarters “and paid the monthly rental expenses.”
Musk withdrew the February suit in June, then revived the spat in federal court this month.
The Pioneer Building’s value has benefitted from the presence of OpenAI and Neuralink, a Musk-founded neurotechnology company that once had its headquarters there, according to the Business Times.
A year after OpenAI moved in, an affiliate of American Realty Advisors bought the building from New York-based Bridgeton for $31.7 million, or $854 per square foot, according to the Business Times. Bridgeton had bought the Pioneer Building in 2014 for $17.5 million, or $471 per square foot.
The building is now owned by an affiliate of Washington, D.C.-based Artemis Real Estate Partners, who acquired it from American Realty Advisors for an undisclosed price, according to the Business Times.
Uber, the ride-hailing giant, has leased two of the four buildings of its Mission Bay headquarters in San Francisco to OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The lease encompasses 486,600 square feet at 1455 and 1515 Third Street — the largest in the city since 2018 — and is particularly notable because the aftermath of the pandemic has stifled new lease agreements, especially for large office spaces.
It is anticipated to provide a positive push to the market, although the persisting high vacancy rate of 34.7 percent remains a challenge, the outlet reported, citing data from CBRE.
After subleasing 486,600 square feet of offices from Uber last fall, the creator of ChatGPT is on the hunt for more at 550 Terry Francois Boulevard, in Mission Bay, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing unidentified sources.
The question is: How many more offices does the artificial intelligence startup need? Real estate sources say OpenAI is looking to expand its offices by 400,000 square feet, and has considered Silicon Valley locations.
While the fast-growing tech firm doesn’t appear to want to grow its footprint at 1455 and 1515 Third Street, where it subleases two of Uber’s campus buildings, it could set up shop nearby.
OpenAI has charted a course for Old Navy’s former headquarters at 550 Terry Francois Boulevard, according to the Chronicle, with one source confirming the firm has toured the building owned by DivcoWest.
The six-story, 315,000-square-foot building represents a “logical expansion for OpenAI,” as it sits adjacent to Uber’s headquarters, according to the newspaper. The building now sits empty.
In a shocking turn of events, the AI world is buzzing with controversy!
Further News:
Yet, we also now have this announced September 2024.
News: OpenAi to become a for-profit company:
And people are still confused in how the company is run... No one seems to understand OpenAI’s corporate structure.
News - October 16th 2024 :
1. Open Ai departs its main HQ in San Francisco due to not paying rent on it's lease of the building, co owned by MUSK.
In October 2024, the firm subleased 486,600 square feet of offices in two buildings from Uber at 1455 and 1515 Third Street in Mission Bay.
In April, the company behind ChatGPT was nearing a deal to lease a 315,000-square-foot office building from Divco West at 550 Terry Francois Boulevard, at Old Navy’s former headquarters in Mission Bay.
In February, Musk sued OpenAI, alleging the company and its CEO Sam Altman had abandoned its mission by putting profit over public good. The complaint said Musk, through his Musk Industries, had leased OpenAI’s headquarters “and paid the monthly rental expenses.”
Musk withdrew the February suit in June, then revived the spat in federal court this month.
The Pioneer Building’s value has benefitted from the presence of OpenAI and Neuralink, a Musk-founded neurotechnology company that once had its headquarters there, according to the Business Times.
A year after OpenAI moved in, an affiliate of American Realty Advisors bought the building from New York-based Bridgeton for $31.7 million, or $854 per square foot, according to the Business Times. Bridgeton had bought the Pioneer Building in 2014 for $17.5 million, or $471 per square foot.
The building is now owned by an affiliate of Washington, D.C.-based Artemis Real Estate Partners, who acquired it from American Realty Advisors for an undisclosed price, according to the Business Times.
Uber, the ride-hailing giant, has leased two of the four buildings of its Mission Bay headquarters in San Francisco to OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The lease encompasses 486,600 square feet at 1455 and 1515 Third Street — the largest in the city since 2018 — and is particularly notable because the aftermath of the pandemic has stifled new lease agreements, especially for large office spaces.
It is anticipated to provide a positive push to the market, although the persisting high vacancy rate of 34.7 percent remains a challenge, the outlet reported, citing data from CBRE.
After subleasing 486,600 square feet of offices from Uber last fall, the creator of ChatGPT is on the hunt for more at 550 Terry Francois Boulevard, in Mission Bay, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing unidentified sources.
The question is: How many more offices does the artificial intelligence startup need? Real estate sources say OpenAI is looking to expand its offices by 400,000 square feet, and has considered Silicon Valley locations.
While the fast-growing tech firm doesn’t appear to want to grow its footprint at 1455 and 1515 Third Street, where it subleases two of Uber’s campus buildings, it could set up shop nearby.
OpenAI has charted a course for Old Navy’s former headquarters at 550 Terry Francois Boulevard, according to the Chronicle, with one source confirming the firm has toured the building owned by DivcoWest.
The six-story, 315,000-square-foot building represents a “logical expansion for OpenAI,” as it sits adjacent to Uber’s headquarters, according to the newspaper. The building now sits empty.
2. Open Ai registers its new "office" at a co-working SPACES in SF
*as listed when you do a Trademark search for Open Ai* also of note there's only 8 listed trademarks for open ai.
Trademark search tool : https://tmsearch.uspto.gov
| SERIAL NUMBER | 86847151 |
|---|---|
| REGISTRATION NUMBER | 5258002 |
| MARK SECTION | |
| MARK | OPEN AI (standard characters, see https://tmng-al.uspto.gov/resting2/api/img/86847151/large) |
| OWNER SECTION(current) | |
| NAME | OPEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INC. |
| MAILING ADDRESS | 95 3RD STREET |
| CITY | SAN FRANCISCO |
| STATE | California |
| STATE/COUNTRY/REGION/JURISDICTION/U.S. TERRITORY | United States |
| ZIP/POSTAL CODE | 94103 |
Hi, I’m Guy Ravine. If you are looking for the origin story of OpenAI, you can find part of it in the counter-complaint we filed against Altman, Brockman and OpenAI.
This Bloomberg article uncovers part of the real origin of OpenAI (there's a lot more that wasn't covered). Altman and Brockman have been trying to rewrite the origin of OpenAI by throwing millions of dollars at lawyers.
October 2024 - Why a Guy is at war with Open Ai, Altman and Musk ?
Hold onto your hats, people, because this story is about to get wild!
Bloomberg reports on who owns Open Ai and it's trademarks and businesses :
Did Musk and Altman steal the idea of Ai ?
Guy Ravine, a lesser-known figure in the tech industry, has dropped a bombshell claim that’s shaking the foundations of one of the most prominent AI companies.
Guy is a forward-thinking tech expert who creates new ideas for the future. He’s really good at working with AI, teaching computers to learn, building smart robots, and making advanced computer programs.
His work helps shape how we’ll use technology in the years to come, has come forward with a jaw-dropping accusation: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and other groundbreaking AI technologies, allegedly stole his idea for “open artificial intelligence.”
Guy is a forward-thinking tech expert who creates new ideas for the future. He’s really good at working with AI, teaching computers to learn, building smart robots, and making advanced computer programs.
His work helps shape how we’ll use technology in the years to come, has come forward with a jaw-dropping accusation: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and other groundbreaking AI technologies, allegedly stole his idea for “open artificial intelligence.”
“I am really glad that you are going to make the back story public. More people need to know about this.”
- Yann LeCun, the Father of Deep Learning, and Meta’s Chief AI Scientist.
Tom Gruber, the co-founder of Siri and Apple’s former leader in AI, encapsulated the circumstances:
“If OpenAI achieves its mission of developing Artificial General Intelligence, that power would now be concentrated in the hands of a few individuals with apparently no independent oversight rather than shared widely with humanity. It is tragic that the hijacking of Open AI from Guy Ravine may have historic consequences. Whoever gets AGI first will have a tool that could be used to exert enormous power over economic and political systems. This power should rest in a democratically governed society rather than a few people who report to no one.”
By early 2015, Ravine had held discussions with top industry leaders on the foundation, launch, and support of the Open AI non-profit initiative for the benefit of humanity.
As Ravine and others who worked with him held discussions at the top echelons of Silicon Valley about Open AI the word began to spread.
Among those with whom Ravine spoke was Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, who was Brockman’s boss. Stripe had received its initial funding from Sam Altman’s Y Combinator. The two made plans to stay in touch on the Open AI endeavor and in fact, Ravine followed up with emails to Collision.
At or around that same time, Brockman decided to leave the company and was trying to decide what to do next. According to Brockman's blog post, he sought advice from both Collison and Sam Altman. After communicating with Collison, Brockman recalls in his blog, immediately thereafter: “My goal was to figure out what deep learning was.”
It is important to note that because word spread, additional mutual individuals in connection with the two groups were well aware of Ravine’s Open AI..
The court papers can be found here:
Note:
Mentions a college textbook that it's text was copied by the Open Ai founders.
“Mathematics of Autonomy: Mathematical Methods for Cyber-physicalcognitive Systems,” by Darryn J. Reid, Michel J. Piling, and Vladimir G. Invancevic.
[update added: 20th November, 20204]
The UK GOV website has a new chat Ai, which is powered by OpenAi.
Oops. Also has no clue on how the internet works, or what scraping is, or what a RSS feed is or even how it's own dataset is being scrapped and reused, all without copyright.
Other links about this GOV Ai, are here:
UK Ai Safety GOV Institute
here's their thoughts on Ai, but they misquote and don't understand maths or history very well, it seems.
UK / US Ai Summits/events
the 1st summit by UK Gov in the world : https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/ai-safety-summit-2023
Soul but run by the UK Gov : https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/ai-seoul-summit-2024
usa: in 2024 the US planned on holding a ai summit : https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-convene-global-ai-safety-summit-november-2024-09-18/
united nations: the UN held this but it does seem too good to be true, because Sam Altman (OpenAi is a speaker) - https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit24/
Patents, Trademarks and Copyright - are all important, say lawyers
[update] 1st January 2025
Here's what UK parliament say on Ai Scams in 2024
The CPS uk has this on cybercrime, yet Ai not included (hmm?)
Yet the .GOV website has this on Ai and no links to any legislations and laws in the UK
What is X Ai and What is/are it's business and Why is it not registered as a TM ?
[update] 2nd January, 2025
New UK Company Registration: X AI London
Office only, no staff.
(company of a similar name)
FAQ X Ai : https://x.ai/legal/faq
X-Corp SEC Company Files
Twitter to X - SEC Company changes
Note: look into the X Holdings companies for which all funds got put into.
Shares from Sale when into : Computershare Trust Company
sold by Ned Segal, Chief Financial Officer (twitter inc) - who then ran for mayor of San Francisco, who is now (late 2024) the housing officer for the city.
which looks like a company : https://www.computershare.com/uk
Who Is Jared birchall ? the guy behind the guy that everyone is talking about
go here: https://excession.llc/
using a web browser, use its developer mode to look at the sites code to find hidden things within the website page. It's badly written also, and run by a man who is worth billions ? yet they can't find a coder in silicon valley to create a proper website ?
UK Companies House has him listed here:
Whats the link between him and Twitter UK ? well
Important note : Twitter UK moved to the same address as X Ai London in late 2024.
Important person - Who is : KIN FAI CHEUNG
well...
Its a fake alt-ego name made up by MUSK.
(more will be added)
Who's in the group of X and connected to the group of Y ?
1. Jared birchall
2. Sriram Krishnan
3. David O. Sacks
4. Shivon Zilis
5. Alex Spiro
6. Jason Calacanis
all worth looking at further.
[update] 8th February, 2025
Elon's new chum.. Eliza (ai framework) :
1. Read the Concerned Bird's substack : https://theconcernedbird.substack.com/
2. find the framework : https://www.elizaos.ai/framework
3. find the Github : https://github.com/orgs/elizaOS/repositories
4. Read the Documentation here : https://elizaos.github.io/eliza/docs/core/characterfile/ and find references to tRump and co
5. so what and who is Eliza ? https://elizaos.github.io/eliza/docs/intro/
6. Marc is the main backer behind it : https://a16z.com/author/marc-andreessen/ and then listen to : https://a16z.com/podcast/trump-is-about-to-change-everything-for-tech-startups/
7. who funded xAi https://a16z.com/investment-list/
8. who created Eliza and it's "OS framework" ? Shaw Walters who lives in the bay area. this is their github page : https://github.com/lalalune/lalalune and he's into Bitcoin, OneCoin (hmm), Web3 etc
>> the coders of Grok (xAi) : https://github.com/xai-org . just three.
>> Intel, uses xAi tools : https://github.com/intel/intel-xai-tools
[important update: 10 Feb, 2025]
A bill to protect DOGE "employees"
OpenAi Start up Fund
A database of OpenAi and Ai companies all related to each other:
Long sec document on company acquisitions :
Sec search using Edgar :
Sec - the Crypto currency begins: