Last December, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teamed up with Y Combinator president Sam Altman and former Google Brain Team scientist Ilya Sutskever to launch OpenAI, a $1 billion non-profit organization dedicated to furthering our understanding of artificial intelligence with a promise to share its research openly with the world. Today, it’s taken its first step in that direction by launching a free toolkit for developers to build and train their own AI bots with games and algorithmic challenges. The OpenAI Gym, currently in beta, includes environments to simulate situations for your AI to learn from, as well as a site…

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