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OpenAI Foundation - Footnote 9

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The source does not explicitly state that OpenAI's projections were the reason for the creation of OpenAI LP, only that it was created to balance the capital intensity of building foundation models with its mission. The source does not specify that investor returns were capped at 100 times their investment.

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Found: By March 2019, OpenAI recognized that achieving its goals would require substantially more capital than initially anticipated—"on the order of \$10 billion" according to the organization's own project…

Note: The source does not explicitly state that OpenAI's projections were the reason for the creation of OpenAI LP, only that it was created to balance the capital intensity of building foundation models with its mission. The source does not specify that investor returns were capped at 100 times their investment.

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