| DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1 🟢 |
DeepSeek introduced DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning AI model competing with OpenAI’s o1, highlighting its ability to fact-check and plan for complex problem solving. DeepSeek-R1 matches o1 on benchmarks AIME and MATH but struggles with certain logic issues. |
Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-25 |
| A Chrome-killing browser will be OpenAI’s next big shot at Google 🟢 |
OpenAI plans to develop a browser integrated with ChatGPT, challenging Google’s Chrome. The company has recruited key Chrome developers and engaged with companies like Conde Nast and Samsung about AI-powered features. These efforts follow the launch of SearchGPT, highlighting OpenAI’s ambition to dominate AI technologies and compete directly with Google in various domains. |
Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-25 |
| OpenAI’s tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others 🔴 |
Emails reveal OpenAI’s early tensions as Elon Musk sought control, clashing with Ilya Sutskever and others over governance concerns. Sam Altman’s business motives also faced scrutiny. Early ideas included acquiring Cerebras and collaboration with Tesla. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-25 |
| OpenAI and rivals seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations 🟢 |
AI companies like OpenAI are innovating training techniques to overcome limits of large language models. Techniques behind OpenAI’s o1 model focus on human-like reasoning, shifting away from “bigger is better.” This approach may reshape AI resources and impact Nvidia’s dominance in AI chips. Rivals are also pursuing similar advancements. |
NVIDIA 🎮, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-18 |
| OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop integrations, rivaling Copilot 🟢 |
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT desktop integrations for Mac OS and Windows, targeting daily workflow integration. Users can now open third-party apps directly, similar to GitHub Copilot’s integrations. Initially available on Mac, Windows users gain Advanced Voice Mode and screenshot capabilities. |
AI for coding 👨💻, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-18 |
| OpenAI’s o1 model leaked on Friday and it is wild — here’s what happened 🟢 |
OpenAI’s upcoming AI model, o1, was accidentally leaked, showcasing advanced capabilities surpassing GPT-4, including comprehensive image and multimedia analysis. The leak occurred due to a URL parameter modification, but OpenAI has since resolved the issue, with an official release anticipated soon. |
Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-11 |
| OpenAI in talks with regulators to become a for-profit company 🟢 |
OpenAI, valued at $157 billion, is in early talks with California and Delaware regulators to shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity to attract investors and address valuation challenges of its AI models. It plans to retain a nonprofit arm post-restructuring. |
AI regulation 📜, Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-11 |
| OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026 🟢 |
OpenAI is enhancing its hardware strategy by integrating AMD chips via Microsoft Azure and aims to develop its own AI-specific hardware by 2026. Collaborating with Broadcom and securing production capacity with TSMC, OpenAI still faces challenges in matching the advanced custom AI chip technology of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. |
AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-11 |
| OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft 🟢 |
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT search, a feature that enhances its AI chatbot with real-time updates on sports, stocks, and news, positioning it as a competitor to major search engines like Google and Bing through partnerships with data providers. |
Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-11-04 |
| OpenAI is rumored to release its next big AI model by December 🟢 |
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to launch a new AI model, Orion, by December, which could surpass GPT-4 in capabilities. Initially, Orion will be available to select partner companies for integration, with Microsoft potentially hosting it on Azure, despite CEO Sam Altman’s denial of the release. |
Model release 🎉, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-10-28 |
| Nvidia just dropped a new AI model on the level of OpenAI’s GPT-4 🟢 |
Nvidia has introduced the Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct AI model, outperforming GPT-4 in benchmarks. Built on Meta’s Llama 3.1, it features advanced training for enhanced language capabilities. This marks Nvidia’s strategic pivot from GPU manufacturing to AI software, potentially reshaping the industry with powerful, customizable AI solutions and challenging current AI leaders. |
Model release 🎉, NVIDIA 🎮, LLaMA 🦙, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-10-21 |
| OpenAI, Microsoft reportedly hire banks to renegotiate partnership terms 🟢 |
OpenAI and Microsoft are renegotiating their partnership terms, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley advising, to redefine Microsoft’s stake and governance in OpenAI after its transition to a benefit corporation. This follows OpenAI’s efforts to secure cheaper cloud services and a $10 billion deal with Oracle. Despite a projected $5 billion loss this year, OpenAI aims for profitability by 2029 with expected revenues of $100 billion. |
Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟, Funding 💰, AI regulation 📜 |
2024-10-21 |
| OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers 🟢 |
At OpenAI’s 2024 DevDay, the company launched the Realtime API for low-latency AI voice responses, enhancing its offerings amidst executive changes and competitive pressures. This API, providing near real-time speech-to-speech capabilities, is part of updates including vision fine-tuning, prompt caching, and model distillation, aimed at maintaining OpenAI’s competitive edge in AI development. |
Text-to-speech 📢, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-10-07 |
| OpenAI raised $6.6B in new funding at a $157B post-money valuation 🟢 |
OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion, bringing its valuation to $157 billion, to boost AI research, expand computing capabilities, and develop advanced problem-solving tools. |
Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-10-07 |
| ChatGPT’s ‘Canvas’ interface makes it easier to write and code 🟢 |
OpenAI has launched a new “Canvas” interface for ChatGPT, enhancing user interaction with features like side-by-side text and code adjustments, inline editing shortcuts, grammar checks, and code translation tools. Aimed at reducing repetitive prompts, Canvas includes a back button for restoring previous versions. Currently in beta, it’s available to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users, with plans for wider access after the beta phase. |
AI for coding 👨💻, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-10-07 |
| Apple not investing in OpenAI after all, new report says 🔴 |
Apple has opted not to invest in OpenAI, despite OpenAI nearing a $6.5 billion funding round. However, Apple will integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18 to enhance Siri, maintaining a non-financial partnership with OpenAI for mutual exposure benefits. |
Apple 🍏, Funding 💰, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-10-07 |
| OpenAI releases ChatGPT Advanced Voice 🟢 |
OpenAI has introduced Advanced Voice to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app, featuring Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents. |
Text-to-speech 📢, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-30 |
| OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company 🔴 |
Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, is leaving the company after over six years to pursue personal interests. Her departure comes as OpenAI prepares for DevDay and undergoes significant changes, including CEO Sam Altman’s growing influence and a potential $150 billion funding round. Murati played a key role in developing major AI projects like ChatGPT, and her exit occurs amid financial pressures due to high operational costs. |
Funding 💰, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-30 |
| OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Shift 🔴 |
OpenAI is contemplating granting CEO Sam Altman a 7% equity stake as it transitions to a for-profit model, possibly becoming a public benefit corporation. This move aims to balance profitability with societal impact. Amid leadership instability and high-profile departures, the company, valued at $150 billion, seeks to raise $6.5 billion, which would significantly boost Altman’s net worth. |
Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-30 |
| OpenAI releases o1-preview model 🟢 |
OpenAI introduces the o1-preview, the first in a new series of reasoning models significantly adept at complex tasks in science, coding, and math. These models outperform predecessors by employing advanced reasoning before responding, with test performances comparable to PhD students in rigorous fields. Despite lacking some GPT-4o features, o1-preview excels in specialized reasoning tasks, promising substantial AI advancements. |
Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-16 |
| OpenAI in talks to raise $11.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation 🟢 |
OpenAI is raising $11.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation, up from $86 billion. This includes $6.5 billion from investors, led by Thrive Capital and Microsoft, and $5 billion in bank debt. The funding will support OpenAI’s AI development and operational expansion while keeping the company private despite financial losses. |
Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-16 |
| OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion 🟢 |
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup focused on developing safe superintelligent AI systems. SSI recently raised $1 billion, valuing the company at $5 billion, with backing from top venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The funds are earmarked for computing power and talent acquisition, with a core focus on foundational AI research and safety. |
AI safety 🔐, Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-09 |
| OpenAI Considers $2,000 Monthly Subscription Prices for New LLMs 🟢 |
OpenAI is considering a $2,000 monthly subscription for advanced LLMs like Strawberry and Orion, a significant increase from the current $20 ChatGPT Plus fee. Additionally, OpenAI is looking to streamline its corporate structure to attract investment, aiming for a valuation above $100 billion, while garnering interest from major investors like Apple and Microsoft. |
Apple 🍏, Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-09 |
| Apple and Nvidia may invest in OpenAI 🟢 |
Apple and Nvidia are exploring investments in OpenAI to enhance their AI capabilities and maintain a competitive edge, though investment specifics remain undisclosed. |
Apple 🍏, Funding 💰, NVIDIA 🎮, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-02 |
| OpenAI’s Strawberry AI is reportedly the secret sauce behind next-gen Orion language model 🟢 |
OpenAI is working on “Strawberry,” an AI model focused on solving math and programming challenges, aimed at supporting “Orion,” the anticipated successor to GPT-4. Strawberry is slated for release in the fall and may augment ChatGPT with improved data generation and search abilities, having already displayed promising performance in tests and to national security stakeholders. |
AI for coding 👨💻, Model release 🎉, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-09-02 |
| Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o 🟢 |
OpenAI introduces GPT-4o fine-tuning for developers to customize models for better performance and cost- efficiency across domains. The feature is available for paid tiers with free daily training tokens until September 23. Notable achievements include Cosine’s Genie excelling in SWE-bench and Distyl leading the BIRD-SQL benchmark. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-08-26 |
| OpenAI snaps up another media partnership, this time with Condé Nast 🟢 |
OpenAI has formed a partnership with Condé Nast to integrate SearchGPT with the media company’s publications, aiming to improve search capabilities and content credibility. The collaboration is seen as a strategy to mitigate the impact of technological advancements on media revenue. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-08-26 |
| The core crew that helped Sam Altman start OpenAI has dwindled from 10 to 2 🔴 |
OpenAI has seen the departure of most of its founding team since 2015, with cofounder John Schulman exiting for Anthropic. Amidst its evolution from a nonprofit to a company with significant partnerships, such as with Microsoft, it has faced criticism from co-founder Elon Musk. CEO Sam Altman remains, alongside two other original members, while one is currently on sabbatical. |
Anthropic 🌐, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-08-12 |
| Google slashes Gemini 1.5 Flash prices, igniting LLM price war 🟢 |
Google has slashed the price of its Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model by 80%, undercutting OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini, albeit with lower performance, ramping up market competition including pressure on smaller AI firms and rivalry with big players like Meta. |
Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-08-06 |
| OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn 🔴 |
OpenAI is expected to spend $7 billion on Microsoft servers in 2024 for extensive AI model training including ChatGPT, with costs potentially leading to a $5 billion operational loss despite earning $2 billion annually from ChatGPT. The company may seek new funding to address the projected revenue shortfall. |
Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-08-06 |
| OpenAI’s new SearchGPT prototype is a declaration of war against Google 🟢 |
OpenAI has launched “SearchGPT,” a prototype conversational search tool with real-time web information enhancements, challenging Google’s stronghold in the search engine market by promising a more efficient and accurate user experience. |
Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-07-29 |
| OpenAI allows finetuning of GPT-4o mini for free 🟢 |
OpenAI now allows tier 4 and 5 users to fine-tune GPT-4o mini for specific use-cases with the first 2 million training tokens daily free until September 23, with plans to extend this feature to all user tiers eventually. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-07-29 |
| GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence 🟢 |
OpenAI has released GPT-4o mini, an advanced, cost-efficient AI model priced at $0.15/million input tokens and $0.60/million output tokens, offering superior performance at a lower cost than GPT-3.5 Turbo. |
Model release 🎉, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-07-22 |
| Microsoft gives up observer seat on OpenAI board 🟢 |
Microsoft has stepped down from its observer seat on OpenAI’s board, reflecting confidence in OpenAI’s trajectory under CEO Sam Altman. This move streamlines Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, also possibly addressing antitrust issues. OpenAI will not offer future observer roles, preferring direct partnership interactions, as with Microsoft and Apple. |
Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟, Apple 🍏, AI regulation 📜 |
2024-07-15 |
| Figma pulls AI tool after criticism that it ripped off Apple’s design 🔴 |
Figma retracted its AI tool, Make Designs, after accusations of replicating Apple’s iOS weather app interfaces. The swift rollout was recognized as flawed by CEO Dylan Field, and CDT Kris Rasmussen noted the use of third-party AI models, not internally developed by Figma, indicating possible training concerns with AI models potentially sourced from entities like OpenAI or Amazon. |
AI and copyright ©️, Amazon 🌳, Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-07-15 |
| OpenAI unveils five-level AI scale, aims to reach level 2 soon 🟢 |
OpenAI’s five-stage AGI progression scale indicates a near-approach to Level 2 “Reasoner,” demonstrating human-like problem-solving. Level 2, characterized by advanced logic and reasoning, is anticipated to be attainable within the next 1.5 years. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-07-15 |
| Apple’s Phil Schiller to reportedly join OpenAI’s board 🟢 |
Phil Schiller, App Store chief at Apple, may be appointed as an observer to OpenAI’s nonprofit board to deepen his understanding of AI as Apple integrates ChatGPT into their operating systems. He will participate in meetings without voting rights. |
Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-07-08 |
| OpenAI CEO says company could become for-profit corporation 🔴 |
OpenAI is considering a transition to a “for-profit benefit corporation,” moving away from its nonprofit origins, a direction similar to its industry competitors such as Anthropic and xAI, as indicated by CEO Sam Altman. |
OpenAI 🌟, Anthropic 🌐 |
2024-06-24 |
| Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company 🟢 |
Ilya Sutskever, alongside Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, has established Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a new AI venture based in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv dedicated to creating superintelligent AI with a strong emphasis on safety. SSI is poised to integrate AI advancements with robust safety measures, prioritizing long-term security over immediate profits, and is anticipated to attract substantial investment due to its compelling objective and skilled founders. |
AI safety 🔐, Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-24 |
| OpenAI Doubles Annualized Revenue to $3.4 Billion 🟢 |
OpenAI’s projected revenue for 2024 is $3.4 billion, up from $1.6 billion in 2023, with CEO Sam Altman citing $3.2 billion from core AI products/services and $200 million from partnerships such as with Microsoft Azure. The company’s valuation is at $86 billion as it continues to advance in the AI industry. |
Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-17 |
| Microsoft’s Nadella Is Building an AI Empire. OpenAI Was Just the First Step. 🟢 |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is enhancing the company’s AI capabilities by acquiring AI assets worldwide, cultivating proprietary AI technologies, and possibly positioning Microsoft as a competitor to OpenAI. This expansion includes investing in AI startups and recruiting industry experts. |
Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-17 |
| Musk wants to ban Apple for cosying up to OpenAI 🔴 |
Elon Musk has expressed intent to prohibit Apple devices in his firms in response to Apple’s announcement of deploying OpenAI’s ChatGPT in their OS, due to security apprehensions. |
Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-17 |
| Apple’s Reported ChatGPT Deal Could Crown OpenAI as King of the Valley 🟢 |
Apple is anticipated to partner with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT into the iPhone’s operating system, which could be announced at the next WWDC. This integration, which could revolutionize AI interaction on iPhones, might see ChatGPT enhance Siri or launch as a separate application, signaling Apple’s pivot towards external AI expertise. |
Apple 🍏, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-10 |
| Apple Keeps It Simple, Will Call Its AI ‘Apple Intelligence’ 🟢 |
Apple is set to unveil “Apple Intelligence,” an AI solution with chatbot capabilities akin to ChatGPT, at WWDC on June 10. This will be included in upcoming iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates and is designed for offline operation, marking a partnership with OpenAI and improvements to Siri. |
Apple 🍏, OpenAI 🌟, ChatGPT 💬 |
2024-06-10 |
| OpenAI Is Rebooting Its Robotics Team 🟢 |
OpenAI is reinstating its robotics division, focusing on creating AI models for robotic applications in collaboration with external robotics companies. This marks a strategic pivot from producing in-house hardware to empowering humanoid robots through partnerships, as evidenced by investments in entities like Figure AI. The team expansion is underway through active recruitment. |
Robotics 🤖, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-10 |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro/Advanced at #2 on the LMSYS leaderboard, right behind GPT-4o 🟢 |
The latest LMSYS leaderboard shows that Gemini 1.5 Pro/Advanced ranks second, right behind GPT-4o, while Gemini 1.5 Flash holds the ninth position, surpassing Llama-3–70b and closely competing with GPT-4–0120. |
Google Gemini 🌌, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-03 |
| Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team 🟢 |
Jan Leike has moved from OpenAI to Anthropic to head a new AI safety team dedicated to “superalignment,” focusing on enhancing scalable oversight and large-scale AI alignment research. |
AI safety 🔐, Anthropic 🌐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-06-03 |
| OpenAI reportedly didn’t intend to copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice 🔴 |
OpenAI’s selection of a voice for its Sky assistant, which prioritized warmth and charisma, sparked controversy when Scarlett Johansson noted a strong resemblance to her own voice, leading to public and legal issues. OpenAI, having denied deliberately imitating Johansson’s voice, halted the use of Sky’s voice after her objections. This dispute followed unsuccessful discussions regarding Johansson potentially providing her voice for ChatGPT with OpenAI’s Sam Altman. |
AI and copyright ©️, Text-to-speech 📢, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-27 |
| OpenAI sends internal memo releasing former employees from controversial exit agreements 🟢 |
OpenAI reversed a decision that would have required former employees to agree to a perpetual non-disparagement clause in order to retain their vested equity. The company confirmed in an internal memo, seen by CNBC, that it will not cancel any vested units regardless of whether the agreement was signed. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-27 |
| Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price 🟢 |
Amazon is updating Alexa with advanced generative AI capabilities and launching an additional subscription service separate from Prime in efforts to stay competitive with Google and OpenAI’s chatbots, reflecting the company’s strategic emphasis on AI amidst internal and leadership changes. |
Amazon 🌳, Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-27 |
| OpenAI releases GPT-4o 🟢 |
OpenAI released the new model GPT-4o, capable of processing and generating text, audio, and image inputs and outputs. It boasts quick audio response times on par with humans, enhanced non-English language processing, and cost-efficient API usage, while maintaining GPT-4 Turbo’s performance levels. |
Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, Model release 🎉, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-21 |
| Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki announced as Chief Scientist 🔴 |
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, is stepping down from its role. Jakub Pachocki, with the company since 2017, will take over as Chief Scientist. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-21 |
| iOS 18: Apple finalizing deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone 🟢 |
Apple is nearing an agreement with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT functionalities into iOS 18, focusing on on-device AI for enhanced privacy and performance. The tech giant intends to announce this integration at the WWDC event on June 10, amidst ongoing discussions with Google regarding their Gemini chatbot. |
Apple 🍏, Google Gemini 🌌, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-21 |
| Meta’s AI system ‘Cicero’ learning how to lie, deceive humans: study 🔴 |
MIT researchers have found that Meta’s AI, Cicero, demonstrates advanced deceptive capabilities in the game Diplomacy, ranking in the top 10% of human players through strategic betrayal. This reflects a growing trend among AI systems such as Google’s AlphaStar and OpenAI’s GPT-4 to employ deceit against human opponents, raising concerns over the potential risks of AI deception and the need for preventive strategies. |
AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, Meta ♾, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-21 |
| Microsoft allegedly developing MAI-1, a competing model to OpenAI’s GPT-4 🟢 |
Microsoft is currently working on MAI-1, a 500 billion parameter AI model, aiming for a competitive edge in the AI industry and moving towards greater independence in AI development. |
Microsoft 🪟, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-13 |
| gpt2-chatbot confirmed as OpenAI 🔴 |
The gpt2-chatbot that appeared in the LMSYS arena was confirmed to be an OpenAI test model after a 429 rate limit error revealed its connection to OpenAI’s API. Now renamed to im-also-a-good-gpt-chatbot, it can only be accessed randomly in “Arena (battle)” mode rather than “Direct Chat”. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-13 |
| OpenAI partnership with Stack Overflow 🟢 |
OpenAI is partnering with Stack Overflow to integrate their OverflowAPI into ChatGPT, enriching it with Stack Overflow’s extensive developer knowledge for more accurate, programming-related AI responses. |
AI for coding 👨💻, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-13 |
| Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts 🔴 |
The “gpt2-chatbot” recently emerged on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, generating discussions within the AI community about its potential relation to new OpenAI models. While demonstrating strong performance, analyses indicate it does not outperform GPT-4, and its exact origin and details are still uncertain. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-06 |
| OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-4 is the dumbest AI model you’ll ever have to use again 🟢 |
OpenAI’s Sam Altman considers GPT-4 the most rudimentary AI that users will encounter as the company progresses towards more sophisticated models like GPT-5, which is expected to feature enhanced abilities such as video generation. He foresees AI developing into highly efficient assistants, performing tasks and providing solutions effortlessly. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 |
2024-05-06 |
| Pro music video powered by OpenAI’s Sora released in a world-first 🟢 |
Paul Trillo directed the official music video for Washed Out’s “The Hardest Part” using OpenAI’s Sora, a text-to-video AI, producing 700 clips of which 55 were used. The project has stirred ethical discussions within the AI industry. |
AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-06 |
| A ChatGPT search engine is rumored to be coming next week 🟢 |
OpenAI is rumored to be launching a ChatGPT-based search engine, potentially at “search.chatgpt.com,” aiming to rival Google by integrating a chatbot feature with traditional search results. This reflects the industry trend of AI potentially revolutionizing standard web search methods. |
Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-06 |
| Memory and new controls for ChatGPT 🟢 |
OpenAI is testing a new memory feature for ChatGPT to improve interaction continuity, offering user-managed options for adding, reviewing, and deleting retained information or disabling the feature. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-05-06 |
| Moderna banks on OpenAI to accelerate mRNA research 🟢 |
Modern Pharma collaborates with OpenAI to incorporate generative AI into its mRNA development and operational processes, securing ChatGPT Enterprise access for around 3,000 Moderna staff, leveraging GPT-4’s advanced language models. |
AI in healthcare 🏥, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-29 |
| ChatGPT Could Power the iPhone’s AI Chatbot: Report 🟢 |
Apple is negotiating with OpenAI and Google for potential integration of generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT or Gemini into the iPhone’s iOS 18, aiming to bridge its in-house AI development gap and circumvent past deployment issues while risking increased reliance on external AI advancements. |
Apple 🍏, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-29 |
| xAI, Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, is closing on $6B in funding and X, his social network, is already one of its shareholders 🟢 |
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is on the verge of securing a $6 billion investment at an $18 billion pre-money valuation. Supported by Sequoia Capital and Future Ventures, xAI’s funding round demonstrates significant investor confidence, partly due to Musk’s reputation and connections from his ventures such as SpaceX and Tesla. |
Funding 💰, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-29 |
| OpenAI Fires Researchers for Leaking Information 🔴 |
OpenAI has terminated two members of its safety and AI reasoning teams following internal leaks, showcasing the ongoing challenge of balancing transparency with security at innovative AI organizations. The company is actively assessing the repercussions of the disclosure. |
AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-23 |
| OpenAI denies Elon Musk’s lawsuit allegations, seeks dismissal in court 🔴 |
OpenAI is contesting a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, who accuses the organization of straying from its original mission upon its commercial endeavors with Microsoft. OpenAI disputes the claims, suggesting Musk’s competing AI interests might influence his action and argues that no concrete commitment was made to avoid commercialization, challenging the basis of Musk’s lawsuit for lack of a definitive agreement. |
AI regulation 📜, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-23 |
| Meta’s open source GPT-4 competitor Llama 3 is coming soon 🟢 |
Meta is set to release Llama 3, an AI assistant intended to outperform its predecessors and compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4. It will debut with two preliminary versions before launching a comprehensive multimodal iteration in the summer. |
LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 |
2024-04-15 |
| GPT4 Turbo has been upgraded and is out of preview 🟢 |
The new GPT-4 Turbo, now with vision capabilities, supports vision requests via JSON mode and function calls, with knowledge updated until December 2023. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸 |
2024-04-15 |
| Start using ChatGPT instantly 🟢 |
ChatGPT is now instantly accessible for new users, offering AI interaction without requiring initial account creation. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-08 |
| OpenAI’s Sora just made its first music video and it’s like a psychedelic trip 🟢 |
OpenAI has showcased the capabilities of its text-to-video engine, Sora, by creating a music video for August Kamp’s song “Worldweight” entirely through the engine’s capabilities. |
Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-08 |
| OpenAI expands its custom model training program 🟢 |
OpenAI is broadening its Custom Model initiative to support various businesses in developing AI models tailored to unique industry needs, with a focus on enhanced fine-tuning via advanced hyperparameter optimization and scalable methods, as announced at DevDay. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-08 |
| OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly planning $100 billion datacenter project for an AI supercomputer 🟢 |
Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a partnership to construct “Stargate,” an advanced AI supercomputer in the U.S., featuring millions of GPUs. The project, which may exceed $115 billion, represents a major commitment to expanding datacenter capabilities to advance AI research and development. |
Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-02 |
| Apple says its latest AI model ReALM is even better than OpenAI’s GPT4 🟢 |
Apple has announced ReALM, an LLM claimed to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4 in contextual understanding, suitable for responding accurately to queries regardless of whether it’s interacting with on-screen content or operating in the background. |
Apple 🍏, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-02 |
| OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work 🟢 |
OpenAI has introduced a Voice Engine capable of generating synthetic voices using 15-second audio samples, featuring multilingual text-to-speech capabilities suitable for various industries, with an emphasis on adherence to consent guidelines in its rollout. |
Text-to-speech 📢, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-04-02 |
| OpenAI is expected to release a ‘materially better’ GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year, sources say 🟢 |
OpenAI is preparing to release GPT-5 around mid-year, offering significant improvements over GPT-4, particularly in enhanced performance for business applications. Although the launch date is not fixed due to continued training and safety evaluations, preliminary demonstrations to enterprise clients suggest new features and capabilities, raising anticipation for GPT-5’s impact on the generative AI landscape. |
GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-03-25 |
| Apple reportedly in talks with Google to license Google’s Gemini AI for iPhones 🟢 |
Apple is currently discussing the integration of Google’s Gemini AI into iPhone functionalities, furthering their collaboration beyond Google’s default search engine arrangement. Additionally, Apple plans to incorporate sophisticated AI features, such as image and text generation, into the forthcoming iOS 18 update and is exploring partnerships with prominent AI entities, including OpenAI and Google’s Gemini AI, to enhance their offering. |
Apple 🍏, Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-03-25 |
| Looks like we may now know which OpenAI execs flagged concerns about Sam Altman before his ouster 🔴 |
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, faced a brief ouster from his position after concerns were raised by two executives, one of which was CTO Mira Murati. The circumstances around his temporary departure in November remain unclear, despite him resuming the CEO role within a week, as reported by The New York Times. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-03-11 |
| Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI 🟢 |
Microsoft enters a multiyear collaboration with Mistral, valued at €2 billion, acquiring a minor stake shortly after its significant investment in OpenAI. |
Mistral 🌬️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-03-04 |
| Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat 🔴 |
Elon Musk has initiated a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the organization has departed from its founding mission of promoting AGI for public benefit by forming a profit-centered partnership with Microsoft. |
AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-03-04 |
| OpenAI announces Sora 🟢 |
OpenAI has unveiled Sora, a novel AI video generator capable of crafting up to minute-long videos from textual prompts. Demonstrations showcase its ability to transform creative prompts into video content, emphasizing the synergy between AI and human creativity. |
Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-02-19 |
| OpenAI is reportedly developing AI web search to compete with Google 🟢 |
OpenAI is reportedly developing an AI web search capability, potentially to compete with Google, and may incorporate this into a new service or an improved ChatGPT that utilizes Bing for web-based information summarization. |
Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-02-19 |
| OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman is chasing trillions of dollars as investments to disrupt AI, chip industries 🟢 |
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is actively seeking to secure $5–7 trillion in funding to expand the semiconductor industry to support AI development. This investment aims to address GPU shortages and foster the growth of both AI and artificial general intelligence. Altman is engaging with various stakeholders, including government officials from the UAE and the US, investors, and chip manufacturers, in his efforts to build a robust global chip-making infrastructure that meets the increasing demands and energy requirements of AI facilities. |
Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-02-12 |
| OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 🟢 |
OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 now features watermarking to distinguish AI-generated images from those created by humans, enhancing transparency in the field. |
AI and copyright ©️, AI for images 🖼️, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-02-12 |
| Google’s Gemini Pro Beats GPT-4 🟢 |
Google’s Gemini Pro ranks just below GPT4 Turbo and ahead of GPT4 in the ChatBot Arena leaderboard, a platform that uses an Elo ranking system based on 200,000+ human votes to assess LLM performance. Speculations about Meta’s upcoming Llama 3 and a potential Q2 release of OpenAI’s GPT-5 are stirring anticipation in the AI sector. |
Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-02-05 |
| Sam Altman Says GPT-5 Will Be ‘Okay’ 🟢 |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman adopts a cautious tone when discussing AI, recently describing the anticipated GPT-5 as merely “okay” at Davos. This balanced approach suggests a strategic shift towards tempered communication. |
GPT-5 🔮, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-02-05 |
| Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs 🟢 |
Hugging Face has introduced free, customizable Chat Assistants on its Hugging Chat platform, presenting an open-source alternative to OpenAI’s GPT services. This initiative offers developers and AI enthusiasts cost-free access to various large language models, including Mistral’s Mixtral and Meta’s Llama 2. |
Hugging Face 🤗, Mistral 🌬️, LLaMA 🦙, Meta ♾, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-02-05 |
| OpenAI releases new embedding models and API updates 🟢 |
OpenAI has announced updates to their AI model suite, including the launch of more efficient embedding models and cost-reduced versions of GPT-3.5 Turbo and a new GPT-4 Turbo model. The “text-embedding-3-large” leads with a 64.6% MTEB score at $0.00013 per 1k tokens, while the “text-embedding-3-small” offers improved performance over its predecessor at a fivefold cost reduction. Additionally, the “gpt-3.5-turbo-0125” is now 50% cheaper, priced at $0.0005 per 1k tokens, and a new “gpt-4–0125-preview” model has been introduced. |
Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-01-29 |
| OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Raising Money to Set Up AI Chip Factories 🟢 |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is actively seeking investment, potentially over $8 billion, from entities including G42 and SoftBank to establish AI chip factories aimed at meeting the surging demand for specialized processors in the growing AI industry. |
Funding 💰, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-01-29 |
| OpenAI introduces the GPT Store 🟢 |
OpenAI has launched a GPT store, showcasing applications such as AllTrails for trail recommendations, Consensus for academic research, Khan Academy for coding education, Canva for design creation, a tool for book recommendations, and CK-12 for math and science tutoring. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-01-15 |
| OpenAI and journalism 🔴 |
OpenAI is defending against a lawsuit from The New York Times, which terminated a potential partnership and sued on December 27 over concerns of content regurgitation by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. OpenAI contends that instances of AI mimicking old articles are not representative of typical usage and may result from targeted prompting to replicate such content, implying possible intentional misuse. |
AI and copyright ©️, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-01-15 |
| OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year 🟢 |
OpenAI is forging licensing agreements with news publishers, committing between $1 million and $5 million annually to use their stories for training AI models. This move, part of a broader trend where AI companies invest in copyrighted content for model enhancement, distinguishes OpenAI from providers of free open-source data like LAION. |
AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-01-08 |
| The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 🔴 |
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming their AI models, like ChatGPT and Copilot, infringe on copyrights by using NYT’s content, posing risks to its revenue and journalism’s sustainability. OpenAI is seeking respectful resolution, while Microsoft hasn’t responded. |
AI and copyright ©️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-01-02 |
| Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation 🟢 |
Anthropic, an AI startup primarily staffed by ex-OpenAI researchers, is in talks to secure $750 million in funding, eyeing a valuation of $18.4 billion. The company has developed Claude 2, a chatbot that can summarize up to 75,000 words, surpassing the summarization capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. |
Funding 💰, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2024-01-02 |
| Axel Springer and OpenAI partner to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism 🟢 |
Axel Springer and OpenAI are partnering to enrich ChatGPT with up-to-date news summaries from prominent media outlets. This collaboration benefits both parties by providing transparent links to full articles and supporting Axel Springer’s AI projects that rely on OpenAI’s technology. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-12-19 |
| Mistral is in discussions to raise a major round at a valuation of at least $2 billion 🟢 |
Mistral, an AI startup aiming to rival OpenAI, is in talks for a significant funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst. This round could value the company at over $2 billion and propel it to unicorn status in just six months. Mistral’s open-source models have gained attention, fueling excitement for generative AI, and investors are eagerly vying for the opportunity to support the “next OpenAI”. |
Funding 💰, Mistral 🌬️, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-12-11 |
| Elon Musk’s AI startup — X.AI — files to raise $1 billion in fresh capital 🟢 |
Elon Musk’s AI startup X.AI is aiming to raise $1 billion in funding. Despite operating independently, X.AI will collaborate with other companies in Musk’s portfolio, such as Tesla and SpaceX. The team consists of experienced professionals from esteemed agencies like DeepMind and OpenAI, having worked on noteworthy projects like AlphaCode and GPT chatbots. |
Funding 💰, DeepMind 🧩, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-12-11 |
| ChatGPT’s training data can be exposed via a “divergence attack” 🔴 |
A recent study on language models, including ChatGPT, reveals their unexpected ability to recall and regurgitate specific training data. Researchers discovered potential privacy concerns with ChatGPT as it could reveal sensitive information like email addresses and phone numbers. |
AI safety 🔐, AI datasets 📊, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-12-04 |
| OpenAI’s GPT store delayed to next year 🔴 |
OpenAI’s GPT store launch has been postponed to next year. The GPT store aims to be a marketplace for users to sell and share their own GPT creations, with OpenAI offering payment based on usage. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-12-04 |
| OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 🟢 |
In response to pushback from investors and employees, OpenAI has reinstated Sam Altman as CEO. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella supports the reshuffle, emphasizing the significance of stability and effective governance for OpenAI’s continued success in fulfilling its mission. |
Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-27 |
| OpenAI saga: What is Q-Star? The ‘humanity-threatening’ AI that could be a reason behind Sam Altman’s removal 🟢 |
OpenAI insiders have unveiled Q-Star (Q*), a highly promising AI model that could revolutionize the field by potentially surpassing humans in economically valuable tasks. |
AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-27 |
| Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI 🔴 |
OpenAI undergoes a significant leadership change as CEO Sam Altman is fired and replaced by Mira Murati as the interim CEO. Greg Brockman steps down as board chairman. Despite the shake-up, Microsoft reaffirms its partnership with OpenAI. Remaining board members include Ilya Sutskever, Tasha McCauley, Adam D’Angelo, and Helen Toner. |
Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-20 |
| Google delays launch of AI model Gemini, a potential rival to OpenAI’s GPT-4 🔴 |
Google has announced a delay in launching its Gemini large language model, which is seen as a potential competitor to Microsoft-backed OpenAI. This development is significant in the context of the fiercely competitive AI industry, especially in the generative AI space. |
Google Gemini 🌌, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-20 |
| The Escalating AI Arm Race: Inside the High-Stakes Talent Wars with OpenAI and Google 🟢 |
OpenAI and Google are engaged in a fierce competition to secure AI leadership, with OpenAI offering attractive compensation deals, including $5–10 million per year and substantial stock gains, to lure top AI experts from Google. |
Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-20 |
| Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO? 🟢 |
Sam Altman is stepping down as CEO of OpenAI, and Mira Murati is taking over as interim CEO. Murati has a strong background in tech, engineering, and AI, with experience at companies like Goldman Sachs, Zodiac Aerospace, and Tesla. She was involved in Tesla’s AI-enabled Autopilot and played a key role in developing motion sensors for PCs at Leap Motion. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-20 |
| Announcements from OpenAI DevDay 🟢 |
OpenAI has introduced several new and improved models and APIs, including GPT-4 Turbo with a larger context window and lower prices, the ability to process images in the Chat Completions API, fine- tuning options for GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo, and the availability of DALL·E 3 via API. They have also introduced features like JSON mode, improved instruction following, and parallel function calling. Additionally, there are new options for text-to-speech and the creation of “GPT assistants.” OpenAI has also released the Whisper large-v3 model for automatic speech recognition. |
Whisper 🤫, Text-to-speech 📢, Speech-to-text 🎤, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-13 |
| Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform 🟢 |
GitHub is implementing AI technology through Copilot and Copilot Chat, which aim to revolutionize software development by providing code understanding, suggestions, security fixes, and improved developer experiences. Copilot Chat will be powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and will be available starting from December 2023. |
AI for coding 👨💻, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-13 |
| ChatGPT Plus members can upload and analyze files in the latest beta 🟢 |
OpenAI’s latest beta version of ChatGPT Plus allows users in the AI field to upload files for thorough analysis, enhancing the platform with file analysis capabilities. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-06 |
| Elon Musk’s first AI product is a chatbot named Grok 🟢 |
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has launched its first chatbot, Grok, which will be available to X Premium+ subscribers. The Grok team includes AI specialists from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla. Musk highlights that Grok’s ability to access real-time information on the X platform gives it an edge over other chatbots. |
Grok 🐦, DeepMind 🧩, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-11-06 |
| Jina AI Launches World’s First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI 🟢 |
Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, an open-source embedding model that supports 8K context length. It matches OpenAI’s 8K model in key areas like Classification Average, Reranking Average, Retrieval Average, and Summarization Average in the MTEB leaderboard. |
Model release 🎉, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-10-30 |
| OpenAI halted the development of the Arrakis model 🔴 |
OpenAI’s plans for developing the AI model Arrakis to reduce compute expenses for AI applications like ChatGPT have been halted. Despite this setback, OpenAI’s growth momentum continues, with projected annual revenue of $1.3 billion. However, they may face challenges with Google’s upcoming AI model Gemini and scrutiny at an AI safety summit. |
Google Gemini 🌌, OpenAI 🌟, ChatGPT 💬, AI safety 🔐 |
2023-10-23 |
| Baidu to integrate ERNIE 4.0, which ‘rivals’ GPT-4, into Search 🟢 |
Baidu unveils ERNIE 4.0, a potential competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4, with plans to transform their search engine responses by offering personalized and flexible answers instead of traditional links and results. The exact launch date is yet to be revealed. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-10-23 |
| OpenAI has quietly changed its ‘core values’ 🟢 |
OpenAI has recently updated its core values, with a focus on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The company now prioritizes AGI as its main aim, making it the top value. The revised values also include being intense and scrappy, scaling, creating products people love, and fostering team spirit. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-10-23 |
| ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing 🔴 |
In September, ChatGPT’s mobile app experienced record downloads and revenue globally, with 15.6 million downloads and $4.6 million in revenue. However, the growth rate has decreased from over 30% to 20%, suggesting possible market saturation for the $19.99 per month ChatGPT+ subscription. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-10-16 |
| OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips 🟢 |
OpenAI is considering developing its own AI chips for ChatGPT due to a global shortage of processors for training AI models. This move could help reduce the high operating costs of ChatGPT, which currently amount to $700,000 per day. OpenAI’s decision may diverge from Microsoft, their partner, who is also working on their own AI chips. |
AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-10-10 |
| ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak 🟢 |
OpenAI has introduced new voice and image capabilities to their AI assistant, ChatGPT. Users can now engage in natural voice conversations and receive relevant responses. The image feature enables users to show ChatGPT images for assistance in interpretation. |
Text-to-speech 📢, Speech-to-text 🎤, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-10-02 |
| OpenAI’s ChatGPT Now Searches the Web in Real Time — Again 🟢 |
OpenAI has reintroduced web searching for ChatGPT, allowing users to access recent information. Important updates have been made, including compliance with robots.txt rules and user agent identification, giving websites more control. Currently available to Plus and Enterprise users, expansion plans are in progress. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-10-02 |
| OpenAI announces DALL·E 3 🟢 |
OpenAI is launching DALL·E 3, an improved version that excels in following instructions, requires less prompt engineering, and can communicate with ChatGPT. This integration enables users to refine prompts for DALL·E 3 by describing their ideas to ChatGPT. Starting in October, DALL·E 3 will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers. |
AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-09-25 |
| Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion 🟢 |
Microsoft Copilot will provide tailored assistance based on workplace data and web context. It enhances productivity and creativity in Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Edge, and Bing, while prioritizing privacy. Additionally, Bing and Edge users will enjoy a personalized experience with OpenAI’s DALL.E 3 model, including AI shopping and image creation. |
Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, AI for images 🖼️ |
2023-09-25 |
| Pulitzer Prize winner and others sue OpenAI 🔴 |
Pulitzer-winning novelist Michael Chabon and other writers are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming that the datasets used to train ChatGPT contain copyrighted content. OpenAI argues that its language learning models are protected by “fair use,” igniting discussions on AI and copyright law in the field. |
AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI regulation 📜, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-09-18 |
| The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023 🟢 |
TIME magazine has released its list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2023. The list includes notable figures such as Dario and Daniela Amodei, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Robin Li, Clément Delangue, Lila Ibrahim, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Timnit Gebru, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio. |
DeepMind 🧩, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-09-11 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard 🟢 |
Hugging Face has released a speech-to-text leaderboard that ranks and assesses speech recognition models on their platform. The current top performers are NVIDIA FastConformer and OpenAI Whisper, with a focus on English speech recognition. Multilingual evaluation will be added in future updates. |
Hugging Face 🤗, Speech-to-text 🎤, NVIDIA 🎮, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-09-11 |
| Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise 🟢 |
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Enterprise, which provides enterprise-level security and privacy features. These include unlimited access to GPT-4, longer input capacities, faster performance, advanced data analysis capabilities, and data encryption measures. The platform is SOC 2 compliant and offers features like admin console, SSO, domain verification, and an analytics dashboard for usage insights. The training of OpenAI models does not involve customer prompts or company data. |
ChatGPT 💬, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-09-05 |
| Teaching with AI 🟢 |
Open AI has released a teaching guide on AI, providing insights into ChatGPT’s functionality, limitations, the effectiveness of AI detectors, and addressing bias. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-09-05 |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning released 🟢 |
OpenAI has released fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo, offering improved performance on specific tasks. The fine-tuned version can even match or surpass the capabilities of base GPT-4. Early testers have significantly reduced prompt size through fine-tuning. The costs for training and usage input/output are provided at $0.008, $0.012, and $0.016 per 1K tokens, respectively. |
GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-08-28 |
| Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI 🟢 |
Microsoft is discontinuing Cortana to prioritize generative AI like Bing Chat, while integrating ChatGPT from its partnership with OpenAI into Windows 11. |
Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-08-14 |
| GPTBot: the web crawler of OpenAI 🔴 |
OpenAI’s web crawler, GPTBot, can now be easily identified and prevented from accessing websites for AI training. Website owners can use the provided code to add GPTBot to their robots.txt file, disallowing it from crawling their site’s content. |
AI and copyright ©️, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-08-14 |
| OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’ 🔴 |
OpenAI has decided to retire its AI classifier due to its low accuracy rate in detecting AI- generated text. The rapid development of large language models has made it challenging to identify features or patterns effectively. |
AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-31 |
| The Frontier Model Forum 🟢 |
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have joined forces to create the Frontier Model Forum, a platform dedicated to the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models. The Forum aims to advance AI safety research, establish safety best practices, share knowledge, and use AI to tackle societal challenges. |
AI safety 🔐, Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-31 |
| Apple is testing a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot 🟢 |
Apple is creating its own chatbot, named “Apple GPT,” to rival Google and OpenAI. Despite initial security concerns, the chatbot is now more widely accessible to Apple employees for prototyping purposes, with restricted usage and no customer-bound features allowed. |
Apple 🍏, Google 🔍, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-24 |
| Custom instructions for ChatGPT 🟢 |
OpenAI introduces personalized custom instructions for ChatGPT, allowing users to have a more tailored and adaptable experience. This feature, developed after gathering feedback from users across 22 countries, highlights the importance of customization in meeting diverse needs. Custom instructions will be gradually rolled out to all users, with beta access initially available to Plus plan subscribers. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-24 |
| Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI 🟢 |
Elon Musk’s new AI startup, xAI, is recruiting top engineers from tech giants like Google and Microsoft to develop a “maximally curious” AI. Although separate from X Corp, xAI will closely collaborate with companies like Twitter and Tesla, aiming to bring about breakthroughs and innovation in the field of AI through synergistic efforts. |
Google 🔍, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-17 |
| Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools 🟢 |
OpenAI and Shutterstock have announced a partnership where OpenAI will use Shutterstock’s media library to train its AI models. In return, Shutterstock gains priority access to OpenAI’s advanced image transformation tools. Shutterstock is also working towards becoming a leader in generative AI by collaborating with top AI companies and compensating artists for their contributions to training the AI. |
AI and copyright ©️, AI datasets 📊, AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-17 |
| GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API 🟢 |
OpenAI has announced the general availability of the GPT-4 API and the automatic upgrade of GPT-3 models to new models from January 4, 2024. Developers using text-davinci-003 are advised to upgrade to gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct and specify it as the “model” in API requests for a smooth transition. OpenAI also offers priority access to GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 fine-tuning for users with fine-tuned older models, understanding the challenges of transitioning from these models. |
Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-10 |
| DeepMind claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT 🟢 |
DeepMind is working on a new chatbot called Gemini to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT. With the aim of combining AlphaGo’s success and LLM’s language abilities, DeepMind seeks to dominate the generative AI market, which is predicted to reach $109 billion by 2030. |
DeepMind 🧩, Google Gemini 🌌, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-03 |
| Introducing OpenAI London 🟢 |
OpenAI has recently opened its first office in London, aiming to tap into the city’s talent and expertise in the artificial intelligence field. This move is expected to enhance OpenAI’s research, engineering, and go-to-market functions. |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-07-03 |
| Function calling and other API updates 🟢 |
OpenAI has released several new updates, including a 16k context version of GPT-3.5-turbo, a new API for calling user-defined functions, cost reductions for models and input tokens, and updated versions of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5-turbo. The updates aim to improve GPT’s capabilities and make it easier to connect with external tools and APIs. |
Model release 🎉, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-06-20 |
| People Are Pirating GPT-4 By Scraping Exposed API Keys 🔴 |
OpenAI warns of stolen API keys being advertised for unauthorized access to GPT-4, resulting in unexpected charges for the account holder. Users are advised to safeguard their keys and rotate them immediately if exposed. Automated scans are conducted to revoke identified exposed keys. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟, AI safety 🔐, AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜 |
2023-06-20 |
| ChatGPT comes to iPad, adds support for Siri and Shortcuts 🟢 |
OpenAI’s latest app update allows iPad users to use Siri and Shortcuts with ChatGPT, one of the most popular chatbots available, offering custom shortcuts for hands-free operation. Apple has updated its App Store rules to prevent ChatGPT clones from being submitted. |
Apple 🍏, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-06-12 |
| OpenAI’s plans according to Sam Altman 🟢 |
OpenAI plans to prioritize creating a cheaper and faster GPT-4, extending context windows, and releasing multimodality in 2024. However, they are currently limited by GPU shortages and are unable to make models millions of times bigger in the near future. The finetuning API will be extended to the latest models. |
Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, AI Chips and GPUs 🖥️, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-06-06 |
| Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS 🟢 |
ChatGPT released iOS app with open-source speech recognition for subscribers. |
Apple 🍏, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-05-22 |
| Language models can explain neurons in language models, by OpenAI 🟢 |
GPT-4 automates understanding of language models by producing natural language explanations of neuron behavior. |
GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-05-16 |
| OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation 🟢 |
VCs have put in just over $300 million at a valuation of $27 billion — $29 billion. This is separate to a big investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year. |
Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-05-02 |
| Humane previews AI-powered wearable 🟢 |
Humane debuted its AI wearable, which projects info without a nearby cell phone. It raised $230M with funding from Microsoft, OpenAI CEO, and others. |
Funding 💰, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-04-24 |
| Japan government weighs A.I. adoption as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits Prime Minister Fumio Kishida 🟢 |
Japan exploring OpenAI’s ChatGPT, awaits resolution of cybersecurity concerns. |
AI regulation 📜, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-04-17 |
| Italy gives OpenAI initial to-do list for lifting ChatGPT suspension order 🔴 |
Italy’s Garante gave OpenAI measures to lift suspension of ChatGPT; issue is GDPR violation. Demands inc. data notice, age gate, rights access. |
AI regulation 📜, OpenAI 🌟, ChatGPT 💬 |
2023-04-17 |
| Spain’s privacy watchdog says it’s probing ChatGPT too 🔴 |
Spain’s data protection authority probes potential GDPR non-compliance by ChatGPT by OpenAI, following Italy’s example. |
AI regulation 📜, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-04-17 |
| Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI 🟢 |
Anthropic aims to raise $5B in 2 yrs to compete with OpenAI using its new AI model, Claude-Next. It has various industries as potential customers. |
Funding 💰, Claude 🖋️, Anthropic 🌐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-04-11 |
| Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT 🔴 |
Samsung workers leaked proprietary data through ChatGPT. OpenAI may now possess trade secrets. The incident raised alarms about data privacy and GDPR rule. |
AI safety 🔐, AI and copyright ©️, AI regulation 📜, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-04-11 |
| Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence” 🔴 |
AI program ChatGPT created false claim of sexual harassment w/o factual basis, warns of biases & dangers of AI in tackling disinformation. |
AI safety 🔐, AI regulation 📜, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-04-11 |
| GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience 🟢 |
GitHub unveils GitHub Copilot X, a developer experience that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 to provide a chat interface, and voice-to-code AI. |
AI for coding 👨💻, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-03-27 |
| GPT-4 is out 🟢 |
GPT-4 is multimodal and accepts also images as inputs. It can handle over 25,000 words of text. GPT-4 can be tested with ChatGPT Plus. Otherwise, there’s an API waitlist. |
Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-03-20 |
| Microsoft mentioned the imminent release of GPT-4 🟢 |
Microsoft Germany recently presented their Large Language Models (LLM) like the GPT series as a disruptive force for companies and their Azure-OpenAI offering. |
Microsoft 🪟, GPT-4 and GPT-4 turbo 🚀, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-03-13 |
| Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs 🟢 |
The ChatGPT API is x10 cheaper than GPT3 API. |
ChatGPT 💬, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-03-06 |
| Planning for AGI and beyond 🟢 |
OpenAI’s steps in making sure that AGI will benefit anyone. |
AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-03-06 |
| Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT 🟢 |
Initially available only to Snapchat Plus subscribers. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-03-06 |
| OpenAI Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run GPT3 and their other models 🟢 |
It will soon be possible to have dedicated GPT3 models. |
GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-27 |
| A collection of 600+ apps powered by GPT3 🟢 |
and organized by category. |
GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-20 |
| ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web 🟢 |
OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? |
Google 🔍, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-20 |
| How should AI systems behave, and who should decide 🟢 |
a summary of how ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped and how OpenAI plans to improve ChatGPT’s default behavior. |
AI safety 🔐, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-20 |
| ChatGPT Burns Millions Every Day. Can Computer Scientists Make AI One Million Times More Efficient? 🔴 |
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ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-20 |
| ChatGPT Plus: a subscription plan for ChatGPT 🟢 |
Subscribers will receive general access to ChatGPT, even during peak times, faster response times, and priority access to new features and improvements. ChatGPT Plus will be available for $20/month. |
ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-06 |
| OpenAI is launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text 🟢 |
The classifier correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text (true positives) as “likely AI-written,” while incorrectly labeling human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time (false positives). |
OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-06 |
| Chatbots with GPT3 🟢 |
Recent advancements in LLMs, such as GPT-3, can be used for chatbot development. Instead of having many very specific intents, each intent can be broader and leverage a Knowledge Base document. |
ChatGPT 💬, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-06 |
| OpenAI has ramped up its hiring around the world 🟢 |
bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months to create massive sets of images and audio clips to train AI tools. 60% of the contractors do data labeling and 40% are computer programmers. |
AI datasets 📊, AI for coding 👨💻, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-06 |
| Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit 🔴 |
The three companies want to dismiss a complaint that alleges that the AI-powered Copilot relies on ‘software piracy on an unprecedented scale. |
AI and copyright ©️, Microsoft 🪟, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-02-06 |
| What are RLHF, SFT, and IFT, and how are they used in ChatGPT? 🟢 |
Usually, the language-modeling objective of the base model is not sufficient for a model to learn to follow a user’s direction in a helpful way. |
Reinforcement learning 🎮, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-01-30 |
| ChatGPT will soon be available on Azure AI infrastructure 🟢 |
Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available, enabling customers to tap into large-scale generative AI models. |
Microsoft 🪟, ChatGPT 💬, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-01-23 |
| Transformer models: an introduction and catalog — 2023 Edition 🟢 |
A catalog of popular transformer models from the last years, including ChatGPT, GPT3.5, and other models from Eleuther, Anthropic, Deepmind, and Stability. |
Anthropic 🌐, DeepMind 🧩, ChatGPT 💬, GPT-3, GPT-3.5, and GPT-3.5 turbo 💡, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-01-23 |
| Introducing Karlo, an Open Source DALL-E 2 (unCLIP) |
Karlo is a text-conditional image generation model based on OpenAI’s unCLIP architecture with the improvement over the standard super-resolution model from 64px to 256px, recovering high-frequency details only in the small number of denoising steps. |
AI for images 🖼️, Multimodal AI (image, video, audio) 📸, OpenAI 🌟 |
2023-01-23 |