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 …
OpenAI is working with Broadcom and TSMC to develop its first in-house AI chip optimized for inference, while also expanding its use of AMD GPUs alongside NVIDIA chips to meet growing infrastructure needs, according to sources cited by Reuters journalist Krystal Hu. The company considered building its own chip foundries but decided to focus on …
OpenAI generates roughly 75% of its revenue from consumer subscriptions to products like its ChatGPT chatbot, with paid plans starting at $20 per month, according to CFO Sarah Friar in an interview with Bloomberg TV. Friar said ChatGPT has 250 million weekly active users, with a 5-6% conversion rate from free to paid. While OpenAI …
Researchers have discovered that Whisper, an AI-powered transcription tool used in various industries including healthcare, is prone to making up text or entire sentences, known as hallucinations. According to interviews with software engineers, developers, and academic researchers by AP, these hallucinations can include problematic content such as racial commentary, violent rhetoric, and imagined medical treatments. …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to an exclusive report by The Verge journalists Kylie Robison and Tom Warren, which claimed that the company plans to launch a new frontier AI model codenamed Orion by December, calling it “fake news out of control” on X (formerly Twitter). The report, citing sources familiar with the plan, …
OpenAI plans to release its next major AI model, called Orion, by December, The Verge has learned. Unlike previous releases, Orion will first be made available to companies to build their own products and features. The model is said to be more powerful than GPT-4, and is seen as a step toward artificial general intelligence …
OpenAI has developed a new AI model that can generate media content such as images, videos and audio 50 times faster than previous systems. The new model, called a “continuous-time consistency model,” takes about a tenth of a second to generate an image instead of the usual five seconds, OpenAI researchers Cheng Lu and Yang …
OpenAI and Microsoft are jointly investing $10 million in an AI project to boost local news media in the US. As Axios’ Sara Fischer reports, the project will be led by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute and will include a grant program for an initial five major urban news organizations, including Chicago Public Media, The Minnesota …