Openai Archive

Richard LawlerOct 18, 2024

OpenAI and Microsoft should ask ChatGPT for ways to fix a relationship.

This New York Times report mentions Microsoft’s investment hesitations after last year’s upheaval, that Oracle deal, and the Inflection acquihire as notable stressors on the “bromance.”

Also, “some” at OpenAI might blame Microsoft if it’s beaten to AGI “because it hasn’t given OpenAI the computing power it needs,” while noting that successfully building AGI could activate a contract clause cutting Microsoft off from OpenAI’s tech.

Interesting.

ChatGPT has a Windows app now

Emma RothOct 17, 2024

Gaby Del ValleOct 10, 2024

AI-generated text probably won’t help you go viral.

OpenAI disrupted more than 20 foreign influence operations over the past year, according to its quarterly threat report. But there’s no “evidence of this leaning to meaningful breakthroughs in their ability to create substantially new malware or build viral audiences,” the report says.

AI has let foreign actors “more quickly and convincingly tailor synthetic content.” But so far, it isn’t reaching much of an audience.

OpenAI says it has disrupted 20-plus foreign influence networks in past year

[CyberScoop]

Agents are the future AI companies promise — and desperately need

Kylie RobisonOct 10, 2024

Kylie RobisonOct 8, 2024

OpenAI snags another media partnership.

Hearst, which owns a substantial portion of the media landscape, has just signed a deal with OpenAI to integrate Hearst content into its products (The Verge’s parent company Vox Media also partners with OpenAI).

Hearst owns 24 daily newspapers and 52 weekly newspapers, 175 websites and more than 200 magazine editions worldwide, making this one of OpenAI’s biggest media partnerships.

OpenAI and Hearst Content Partnership

[OpenAI]

Kylie RobisonOct 7, 2024

San Francisco heat wave meets OpenAI HQ.

I’m coming to you live from my hot-as-hell apartment here in San Francisco. We’re facing a historic heat wave and none of us have apartment air conditioning.

Even funnier, the AC at OpenAI HQ is broken, according to an employee. The office is based in the Mission district, which tends to get hotter than the rest of the city. (One Google DeepMind staffer flaunted his working AC in reply: “We’re hiring!”)

Emma RothOct 7, 2024

Fewer websites are blocking OpenAI’s web crawler now.

With several media companies striking AI training deals with OpenAI, the number of websites blocking GPTBot has taken a big dip, according to data seen by Wired:

At its peak, the high was just over a third of the websites; it has now dropped down closer to a quarter. Within a smaller pool of the most prominent news outlets, the block rate is still above 50 percent, but it’s down from heights earlier this year of almost 90 percent.

The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

[WIRED]

Get ready to meet your AI best friend

David PierceOct 4, 2024

ChatGPT’s ‘Canvas’ interface makes it easier to write and code

Jess WeatherbedOct 4, 2024

Jay PetersOct 3, 2024

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly isn’t planning to hire a new CTO anytime soon.

From Bloomberg:

At an all-hands meeting last week, Altman told employees the company is not looking to replace [Mira] Murati in the CTO role for now, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Mira Murati announced last week that she was leaving OpenAI.

OpenAI’s Altman Concentrates Power on Path to $157 Billion Valuation

[Bloomberg]