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Jacob Kastrenakes

Jacob Kastrenakes

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    Satya Nadella is here.

    The Microsoft CEO says, “We love you guys ... You guys have built something magical.”

    He spent a couple minutes talking about Microsoft’s vision for putting AI everywhere (he said “Copilot” a lot).

    “I’m excited for us to build AGI together,” Altman said.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    GPT-4 Turbo will be cheaper for developers.

    Altman says developers said they’d build a lot more if OpenAI could lower the price. So it’s lowing the price by 3x for input tokens and 2x for output tokens.

    OpenAI will work on speed gains for developers next. It’ll be “a lot faster” soon, he says.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    “We are just as annoyed as all of you —

    probably more — that GPT4’s knowledge ended in 2021. We will try to never let it get that out of date again,” Sam Altman said on stage.

    Good news for ChatGPT users, bad news for anyone scared of how disruptive a current version of this system could be.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Sam Altman is on stage.

    The OpenAI CEO says 2 million developers are now working with the company’s tools, and around 460 companies on the Fortune 500 companies are using its products.

    The really big number? 100 million people are using ChatGPT weekly. That’s huge.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    OpenAI’s first developer conference is about to kick off.

    You can watch live via our storystream. The company is expected to announce updates to GPT-4 and more.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    It looks like Elon’s AI company is getting somewhere.

    A heavily caveated somewhere — but this is the first real update since xAI formally launched in July.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    The Duolingo owl will now crush you at chess, too.

    Duolingo is partnering with Chess.com to make its cast of language-learning characters into chess bots. Naturally, they’ll taunt you in multiple languages.

    It sounds like the bots will stick around through November. No word yet on what Elo the owl is — but I’m guessing it’s up there.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    We’re 20 minutes away from Apple’s Scary Fast event.

    We’re expecting M3 chips, a new iMac, and some updated MacBook Pros. And if Apple really leans into the spooky theme, maybe an updated Magic Mouse with a USB-C port on the bottom.

    You can follow along live right here:

    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Jacob Kastrenakes
    We’ll be live blogging Apple’s Scary Fast event right here.

    Stay tuned to our live updates — the event kicks off at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. We’re expecting the M3 chips and a handful of new Macs. Get your predictions in now.