OpenAI Coming to China?

SCMP reported that the US company filed an application to register the trademarks 'GPT-6' and 'GPT-7' for the purpose of scientific research and the field of technology and design.

The application is currently under review by the National Intellectual Property Administration of China.

OpenAI currently has no services available in China or Hong Kong. Sources said the company that owns ChatGPT filed for trademarks 'GPT-4' in April and 'GPT-5' in July, but did not receive final approval.

ChatGPT was originally built on GPT-3.5, which has 175 billion parameters. In March, OpenAI introduced a more advanced version of GPT-4.

The company did not disclose specifically how many parameters there are, but news site Semafor said that the number of parameters in GPT-4 can be estimated at more than a trillion.

Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview with The Financial Times that the company is working on GPT-5 and plans to raise additional funding from Microsoft to further develop the research.

The interview was published just days before the company's board of directors made a shocking surprise announcement that Altman was being fired.

However, under pressure from investors and company employees, the board of directors had to reinstate this co-founder.

Reuters reported that one reason behind the decision to fire Altman was said to be due to concerns that powerful AI developments could threaten humanity.

Within the company, some employees believe the project, codenamed “Q*,” could be a breakthrough in artificial superintelligence (AGI).

Currently, AGI has not appeared, so it is defined differently by different sources, but is generally understood as a form of "super intelligence", able to learn all knowledge, have awareness and surpass human intelligence.

Many famous people such as physicist Stephen Hawking and billionaire Elon Musk have also warned about the risk of AI destroying the planet.

"Artificial intelligence could be the worst thing in human history. Sooner or later it will be uncontrollable," Hawking warned many times while he was alive.

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