OpenAI just announced an alpha program for a new tool (called reinforcement fine-tuning) that lets developers train models on specific tasks, using example problems and answers. In a post after the livestream announcement, CEO Sam Altman said this will make it “really easy to create expert models in specific domains with very little training data.”
A new Llama 3.3 70B model dropped today, and Meta’s VP of genAI said it matches the performance of the larger 405B version, but runs cheaper and lighter. They also claimed this new model beats competitors Google, OpenAI, and Amazon on key tests like MMLU.
Today has been a busy day. I was working on some OpenAI news — but Mother Nature doesn’t care about my plans!
There was a 7.0 earthquake, and now there are tsunami warnings here in San Francisco. Interestingly, though, Google Docs and Drive both warned me about the Tsunami (sometimes it shows a button for “More Info” and sometimes not).
Kate Rouch, the former CMO of Coinbase, has been hired by OpenAI to lead its marketing efforts, Ad Age reported.
OpenAI has been padding out its c-suite this year: It hired Sarah Friar as chief financial officer, Kevin Weil as chief business officer, Scott Schools as chief compliance officer, and Aaron Chatterji as its chief economist. Notably, they haven’t hired a CTO to replace Mira Murati, who recently departed.
[Ad Age]
In an interview with the Financial Times, OpenAI’s new CFO Sarah Friar said that the startup was considering an ads model and it planned to be “thoughtful about when and where we implement” ads.
In a statement following the interview, though, Friar added:
“While we’re open to exploring other revenue streams in the future, we have no active plans to pursue advertising.”
[Financial Times]
Clem Delangue, the CEO of AI model repository Hugging Face, just shared his 2025 AI predictions, which include: A major AI protest, a big company seeing its market cap divided by two or more because of AI, 100,000+ pre-orders for personal AI robots, China leading the AI race thanks to open source, and breakthrough applications in biology and chemistry.
A cozy workspace full of character and characters — and a cat.
