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lab

[lab] / læb /
NOUN
laboratory
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NOUN
testing ground
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Founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab by Altman, Elon Musk and others, OpenAI burst into the mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

That news comes just a week after rival artificial-intelligence lab Anthropic publicly announced it had confidentially filed with the regulator, allowing it to get feedback before making its financial statements public.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Visitors peered into the Fish Bowl, the glass-walled lab where white-coated preparators carefully clean fossils.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Altman has long toyed with the idea of getting the federal government involved with OpenAI, asking whether it would be interested in funding the AI lab years before ChatGPT launched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

One was a photo of a group of people wearing lab coats.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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