OpenAI to set up new office in Switzerland

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, says it intends to set up an office in Zurich. The move is the latest development in the company's European expansion plans, after setting up offices in London, Paris, Brussels and Dublin. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Three leading AI researchers will work in Zurich for OpenAI, according to a statement published on Wednesday. Switzerland's biggest city is a "leading technology centre in Europe", it said. The internet giant Google recently celebrated 20 years' in Zurich. + Google celebrates 20 years in Switzerland OpenAI was founded in 2015 by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The company is now valued at approximately $157billion. Launched as a non-profit, OpenAI intends to become a for-profit public benefit corporation to attract more investors. + ChatGPT: intelligent, stupid or downright dangerous? Musk jumped ship in 2018 and has since taken OpenAI to court on several occasions. He accuses the start-up of being a ...