OpenAI, a Khosla investment, is pursuing the goal of building artificial general intelligence (transcribed as 'ADR').

Judged as of 2020-02-24. True if, at that date, OpenAI publicly stated that its goal or mission was to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), for example in its charter or mission statement, and Khosla Ventures was an investor in OpenAI by that date. Mostly true if OpenAI's AGI goal is documented but the Khosla investment detail is slightly off (for example, the investment closed shortly after the statement, or it was made through a related vehicle). Mixed if only one of the two parts holds: the AGI goal is confirmed but no Khosla investment existed by then. Mostly false if OpenAI's stated goal at the time was something narrower than AGI that the claim overstates. False if OpenAI had no stated goal of building AGI at that time. The 'ADR' transcription is read as AGI and does not count against the claim.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 OpenAI Charter OpenAI Own record

   “OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity.”

2. E2 Vinod Khosla - Wikipedia Wikipedia

   “In 2018, Khosla Ventures committed $50 million to OpenAI, with the investment completed in 2019.”

3. E3 https://epoch.ai/data/ai_companies_funding_rounds.csv Epoch AI

   “per Source 2, Khosla invested $50M in 2019, so the amount raised was at least $50M”

4. E4 AI companies funding rounds dataset (CSV) Epoch AI · 11 March 2019

   “investors include Reid Hoffman’s charitable foundation and Khosla Ventures, among others.”

5. E5 AI companies funding rounds dataset (CSV) Epoch AI

   “per Source 2, Khosla invested $50M in 2019, so the amount raised was at least $50M; possibly several times higher”

6. E6 Vinod Khosla - Wikipedia Wikipedia

   “In 2018, Khosla Ventures committed $50 million to OpenAI, with the investment completed in 2019.”

7. E7 AI companies funding rounds dataset (CSV) Epoch AI · 22 July 2019

   “Multiyear partnership founded on shared values of trustworthiness and empowerment, and an investment of $1 billion from Microsoft, will focus on building a platform that OpenAI will use to create new AI technologies and deliver on the promise of artificial general intelligence.”

8. E8 Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI OpenAI · 22 July 2019

   “To accomplish our mission of ensuring that AGI (whether built by us or not) benefits all of humanity, we’ll need to ensure that AGI is deployed safely and securely;”

9. E9 Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI OpenAI · 22 July 2019

   “Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits.”

I rated this true because both parts of the claim are supported by the evidence as of 2020-02-24. On the goal: OpenAI's announcement of 2019-07-22 says the Microsoft investment is meant to support OpenAI in "building artificial general intelligence (AGI)" and restates its AGI mission (E8, E9). The Microsoft partnership text says the same (E7), and the Charter states the mission in AGI terms (E1). On the investment: an Epoch AI entry dated 2019-03-11 lists Khosla Ventures among OpenAI's investors (E4), and Wikipedia says Khosla Ventures committed $50 million in 2018 and completed the investment in 2019 (E2, E6), so Khosla was an investor well before February 2020.