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A leaked 2023 memo from a different company proclaimed “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does [this company]” in describing the (15[1])success of open source projects. In 2021, a significant number of engineers at this company, including VP of research Dario Amodei, split to form the startup Anthropic. (15[1])This company’s (15[1])charter (15[1])states “Our primary (15[1])fiduciary duty is to humanity”, which might conflict a bit with their 2019 decision to shed their (*) non-profit status and become “capped-profit”, with a 100-fold limit on investors’ returns. Microsoft later invested over 10 billion dollars in this company and worked with them to develop GitHub Copilot. As a probable publicity stunt, this company didn’t release the full model, claiming it would be too dangerous, when they revealed their language model GPT-2. For 10 points, name this competitor to DeepMind co-founded by Sam Altman, whose name is no longer very accurate. ■END■

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