OpenAI, a leading provider of artificial intelligence, will soon have a presence in Dublin, according to an announcement made by the Microsoft (MSFT.O)-backed business on Thursday.
This is the third office that the company has. It has announced that it would build an office in London in June. The company’s headquarters are located in San Francisco.
Even though OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon stated that the firm wants to create more roles in the near future, the Dublin office will be the company’s European base and is starting small, with nine open jobs across several teams. The Dublin location will be the company’s European hub.
“We like to grow deliberately and not too rapidly because we want to make sure that the culture of the company is established first in new offices before we scale up,” Kwon told Reuters. “We like to grow deliberately and not too rapidly because we want to make sure that the culture of the company is established in new offices.”
OpenAI is one of the many American technology businesses that have established operations in Dublin. According to Kwon, Ireland is an excellent area to connect with Europe from both a regulatory and business development point of view since not only does it have access to a talent pool that is already familiar with the culture of firms like Meta (META.O) and Google (GOOGL.O), but it also has that familiarity.
Kwon stated that because OpenAI does not generate a profit, the consequences of taxes did not play a part in the decision.
After Meta’s Threads app, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become the application with the second-fastest user growth in the history of mobile applications. It has caused both excitement and anxiety, bringing OpenAI into confrontation with regulators, particularly in Europe, where the company’s extensive data-collecting has garnered condemnation from privacy watchdogs. This dispute has brought OpenAI into the spotlight.