OpenAI is reportedly developing new strategies to deal with a slowdown in AI model improvements. According to The Information, OpenAI employees testing the company’s next flagship model, code-named Orion, found less improvement compared to the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4, suggesting the rate of progress is diminishing. In response, OpenAI has formed a foundations team …
During the 2024 US election, OpenAI’s ChatGPT directed around 2 million users to trusted news sources like Reuters and the Associated Press for election information, according to a blog post by the company. As reported by Devin Coldewey for TechCrunch, the AI chatbot also sent about 1 million people to CanIVote.org for voting-related questions and …
The Southern District of New York has dismissed a copyright lawsuit brought by online news outlets Raw Story Media and AlterNet Media against artificial intelligence company OpenAI. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI violated copyrights by using scraped news content in its training data without preserving copyright management information (CMI) as required under Section 1202(b) of …
Caitlin Kalinowski, the former head of Meta’s augmented reality glasses and virtual reality goggles teams, announced that she is joining OpenAI to lead their robotics and consumer hardware division. In a LinkedIn post, Kalinowski stated her initial focus will be on bringing AI into the physical world through robotics work and partnerships. An article by …
OpenAI has acquired the domain name Chat.com for an undisclosed amount, TechCrunch reports. The domain, which was registered in 1996 and is one of the oldest on the web, now redirects to OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT. According to a post on X-Twitter by HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah, who sold the domain last year …
OpenAI, the $157 billion artificial intelligence company founded in 2015 as a nonprofit, is in preliminary discussions with the California and Delaware attorneys general to convert to a for-profit public benefit corporation. According to two people familiar with the matter, the process will likely involve regulators examining how OpenAI values its intellectual property assets, such …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced during a Reddit AMA on Thursday that the company likely won’t release GPT-5, its next major AI model, in 2023 due to the increasing complexity of these models. Altman cited “limitations and hard decisions” in allocating compute resources as the reason for the delay, despite “some very good releases coming …
OpenAI has announced a web search functionality for its ChatGPT conversational AI. The new feature, initially rolling out to paid subscribers, allows ChatGPT to search the web and provide real-time information on topics such as news, sports, stocks, and weather. By delivering curated answers with clear source attribution, ChatGPT aims to provide a more natural …
OpenAI has updated its Realtime API, currently in beta, with five new expressive voices for speech-to-speech applications and reduced costs for developers by introducing prompt caching. According to OpenAI’s API documentation cited in an article by VentureBeat, the native speech-to-speech feature enables low latency and nuanced output. The company showcased three of the new voices …
Microsoft has revealed that its AI business is on track to surpass a $10 billion annual revenue run rate next quarter, making it the fastest business in the company’s history to reach this milestone. The company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, attributes this growth to Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Microsoft disclosed in its …