In a wide-ranging interview at TED2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed pressing questions about artificial intelligence safety, ethics, and the company’s future plans. The conversation, conducted by TED curator Chris Anderson, covered topics from OpenAI’s growth trajectory to the ethical implications of generative AI models. Altman revealed that ChatGPT has reached approximately 500 million weekly … Read more
OpenAI has released a comprehensive prompting guide for its new GPT-4.1 family of models, highlighting significant improvements in coding capabilities, instruction following, and long context handling compared to GPT-4o. According to the guide published by OpenAI, developers may need to migrate their prompts because GPT-4.1 follows instructions more literally than previous versions, which tended to … Read more
China’s ByteDance is transforming data from its popular apps TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao into a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence, reports Meaghan Tobin of The New York Times. The company collects behavioral data from approximately 170 million U.S. TikTok users and around 1 billion users of its Chinese apps. This wealth of information has become … Read more
Google is leading the AI race with its Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental model, which currently ranks as the best performing AI model across multiple benchmarks. According to Alberto Romero in his newsletter The Algorithmic Bridge, Google now dominates on every AI front. The model tops leaderboards including LMArena, GPQA Diamond, and Humanity’s Last Exam, outperforming … Read more
OpenAI has released two new AI models, o3 and o4-mini, designed to advance reasoning capabilities and introduce novel features like “thinking with images.” These models represent the company’s latest development in its o-series, coming just days after the release of GPT-4.1. The models’ most distinctive feature is their ability to not just recognize images but … Read more
ChatGPT surpassed Instagram and TikTok to become the world’s most downloaded non-game app in March 2024, according to app intelligence provider Appfigures. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reports that the AI chatbot saw downloads increase by 28% from February, reaching 46 million new installations. This represents ChatGPT’s biggest month ever and its first time topping the … Read more
Google has officially launched a feature that adds links in AI Overviews directing users to Google’s own search results. Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Land reports that this update aims to help users explore topics more easily. According to a Google spokesperson, the links appear when their systems determine it might be useful for users. … Read more
OpenAI announced plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest AI model to date, from its API by July 14. According to reporter Kyle Wiggers from TechCrunch, developers will need to transition to alternative models, with GPT-4.1 being the recommended replacement. An OpenAI spokesperson explained that GPT-4.1 “offers similar or improved performance than GPT-4.5 in key … Read more
Cohere has launched Embed 4, an upgraded multimodal embedding model with a 128,000 token context window that can process documents up to 200 pages long. According to Emilia David at VentureBeat, the new model improves enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) capabilities. Embed 4 handles unstructured data in over 100 languages and is designed to work … Read more
Anthropic has launched a new integration that allows its AI chatbot Claude to access Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. Maxwell Zeff reports that the feature is rolling out in beta to subscribers of Anthropic’s premium plans including Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro. The integration aims to provide more personalized responses without requiring users to … Read more