Musician Washed Out released a new music video for his song “The Hardest Part,” which was created entirely using OpenAI’s Sora AI model. Director Paul Trillo used 55 short AI-generated video clips and combined them into a four-minute clip that demonstrates the current abilities of generative video AI.
OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company after being involved in the failed coup attempt against CEO Sam Altman in November. Sutskever will now focus on a new, as-yet-unknown project, while Jakub Pachocki has been named OpenAI’s new Chief Scientific Officer.
Through the “Preferred Publisher Program”, OpenAI offers media companies licensing agreements to provide ChatGPT with up-to-date content and give users access to high-quality information sources. In return, participating providers receive both fixed licensing fees and performance-based payments. This is shown in a leaked presentation by OpenAI.
OpenAI has released “Model Spec,” a set of rules that control the behavior of its AI models, such as ChatGPT, for which OpenAI is seeking public feedback. The goal is to develop AI models that are useful and safe for all users by establishing ethical guidelines and practical rules for their use. Source: VentureBeat
OpenAI is developing a new tool called “Media Manager” that will allow authors and rights holders to determine if and how their work can be used to train AI models. The tool is expected to be available by 2025. Source: TechCrunch
Rumor has it that OpenAI is working on a new feature for ChatGPT to search the web and provide sources in the answers. This could make ChatGPT a direct competitor to Google and other AI-powered search engines such as Perplexity.
One day before Google’s I/O, OpenAI tried to steal the show from its big competitor. And their demos definitely caused quite a stir. The focus was on their latest AI model GPT-4o, where the “o” stands for “omnimodel”. This is to indicate that this version does not only process text, but also e.g. image and …
The Austrian consumer organization noyb is suing OpenAI because ChatGPT disseminates false information about individuals, which potentially violates the GDPR.
A mysterious chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” caused a stir among experts this week. Its capabilities appeared to be on a par with GPT-4, but its origin remained unknown. After a short time, the bot disappeared from the scene again, presumably due to the high level of interest. Speculation about the developer, including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, …
ChatGPT has received several updates. One of the most interesting is the “memory” feature, which allows ChatGPT to remember information that users communicate to it. For example, you can store details about yourself or your company that the chatbot can access when needed. Other new features include the ability to have temporary chats that are …