OpenAI says that training of its latest frontier model “has recently begun” — something that’s been rumored for a while — on the path to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Altman and Co have also formed a new Safety and Security Committee to help guide critical decisions for OpenAI projects. This follows the resignation of a key OpenAI researcher over concerns that safety had taken ‘a backseat to shiny products.’
Following an outage that started early Thursday, Microsoft reported “mitigation efforts” successfully brought some Copilot services back online (along with those of third parties like DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s internet search feature) as of noon that day.
As for the rest, its 365 Status account on X now reports that “all Copilot features are functioning as expected.”
Bloomberg reports Meta and Google met with major Hollywood studios to license content for their AI video generation platforms. These meetings come after OpenAI reportedly spoke to several Hollywood studios about using its AI video generation model, Sora.
Meta has been working on its AI video generation model Emu since last year. Meanwhile, Google unveiled Veo during Google I/O this month.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Sam Altman will appear onstage at Build soon to “talk about what’s next” with Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott. Will we hear about OpenAI’s search engine, powered partly by Bing? GPT-5? Vague promises of the AI future? Stay tuned.
