Microsoft will bring OpenAI's new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, its platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers.
This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.
For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state-of-the-art.
The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Awards Schedule (MSA), which would let government agencies access AI tool sellers with pre-negotiated contracts, rather than negotiating with vendors individually.Â
OpenAI's consumer chatbot ChatGPT to hit a new milestone of 700M weekly users.
OpenAI developed the first AI reasoning model less than a year ago, but the technology has shifted Silicon Valley's focus to agents.
The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, and is part of OpenAI's strategy to raise $40 billion.
Anthropic holds 32% of enterprise LLM market share by usage. This is sharp reversal from just two years ago when OpenAI held 50%.
OpenAI said the new Norway-based datacenter comes as the European Union races to achieve AI sovereignty by investing in data center and compute power.
OpenAI's Study Mode aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than just giving answers.
Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI for a new agreement that would give it ongoing access to the startupâs technology even if OpenAI achieves what it defines as AGI, or advanced general intelligence. If the deal goes through, it would clear a key hurdle in OpenAIâs transition toward becoming a fully commercial enterprise.
Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta's new AI lab.
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.
The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.
OpenAI was customer that signed the huge deal that Oracle disclosed last month.
OpenAI and Google's AI models achieved impressive results in a difficult math competition, but disputed how the other got their score.
Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete with OpenAI in the next phase of AI adoption.
OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.
The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company's technological advances.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model indefinitely.
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company.
OpenAI's browser is said to use AI to rethink how users browse the web, keeping some user interactions inside ChatGPT instead of linking out to websites.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he stepping into the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he launched in 2024.
OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood's sale of "OpenAI tokens" will not give everyday consumers equity â or stock â in OpenAI.
After going back and forth over the provision, Sen. Marsha Blackburn offered an amendment to strip the provision alongside Sen. Maria Cantwell.Â
While Siri can already call on ChatGPT for difficult questions, Apple now seems to be exploring a much deeper integration with technology from third-party AI providers.
With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not âbeen standing idly by.â
Looks like Meta isnât done poaching talent from OpenAI.
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Meta is offering multi-million pay packages to AI researchers. But no one is really getting an $100 million "signing bonus."
Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce firms, said its team is leaving the company to join OpenAI.
Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. Bansal […]
From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating […]
Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details about the companies’ efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The filings are part of a trademark dispute lawsuit filed this month by iyO, a Google-backed hardware startup developing custom-molded earpieces that connect to other devices. Over […]
OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAIâs $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altmanâs device startup io) from its website and YouTube page.
Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots in store for you today, including Wix’s latest acquisition, Meta’s new smart glasses, a look at the new Digg, and much more. Have a great weekend! Smart specs: Meta and Oakley have teamed up on a new pair of smart glasses that can record 3K video, play music, […]
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAIâs former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.
ChatGPT, OpenAIâs text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership […]
Across hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has befuddled our species: why is the baby crying?! Sam Altman, who is both the father of a three-month-old and CEO of OpenAI, hopped on OpenAI’s new podcast today to talk about how his company is impacting his experience with fatherhood. Altman, who […]
OpenAI is phasing out its work with Scale AI and cutting ties with the data provider following Meta’s deal with the startup, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Sarah Friar, the chief financial officer of OpenAI, previously suggested the company would continue its work with Scale AI. Now, it appears OpenAI has changed its […]
OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations â the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans â OpenAI researchers were able […]
âThe OpenAI Files,â an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, are a âcollection of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.â
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta tried to poach its employees with nine-figure offers, but failed to recruit OpenAI's best people.
The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.
OpenAI and Microsoft have an increasingly strained relationship, according to a recent WSJ report.
ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times.
Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging.