OpenAI

It’s reportedly part of “billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure” that Donald Trump is preparing to announce, with the first project in Texas. Oddly, earlier rumors about “Stargate” included Microsoft and this one doesn’t so far, but their connection with OpenAI has grown more complicated since then.

He says the new “reasoning” model is “very good.”

OpenAI has appointed Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi to its board of directors. Ogunlesi is chairman and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners (an investment fund) and a senior managing director at BlackRock.

The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department didn’t take a position on the appropriate outcome, but write in a statement of interest that holding a seat on two competing boards can violate antitrust law — even if the board member foregoes one. At issue is Reid Hoffman’s simultaneous participation on the OpenAI and Microsoft boards.

OpenAI’s pricey $200 ChatGPT Pro plan is losing the company money, but not because people don’t want to pay it — according to CEO Sam Altman, subscribers are simply getting more than their money’s worth.

One important detail in this report about Microsoft and OpenAI’s exclusive cloud arrangement is that last year’s extension apparently defines the often-disputed term artificial general intelligence (AGI).

We reported in October that OpenAI could launch its GPT-4 successor, codenamed Orion, this month. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports the behind-schedule model’s training is a struggle that’s racking up “enormous” costs.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went on a Bari Weiss podcast recently and spoke about his ongoing feud with Elon Musk:

OpenAI’s search leader Shivakumar Venkataraman, hired from Google just 7 months ago to lead the company’s search efforts, has departed with no explanation for his exit or succession plan, per The Information.

OpenAI’s 11th “ship-mas” drop: ChatGPT’s desktop app now works with Apple Notes, Notion, Quip, and some new coding apps.

According to OpenAI’s status page, this issue has been going on for a few hours, even though user reports stretch back even further:

Amazon, Meta, and now OpenAI.

OpenAI’s new video generator, Sora, can make some really impressive visuals... it just can’t make them actually make sense or follow the laws of physics or properly depict people eating or... just watch:

OpenAI is, after a very long time, rolling out the ability to let ChatGPT see and respond to video in Advanced Voice Mode. You’ll need a Plus or Pro subscription to use it.

OpenAI is rolling out Santa in Voice Mode for ChatGPT. You can activate it by tapping a snowflake icon that appears to the right of the text box, but it will only be available until the end of the year.

It’s impressive, but we’re not the only ones who found the results from OpenAI’s new AI video model tend to be a bit weird. It struggles with natural movement, often includes additional appendages or other visual distortions, and sometimes ignores half your prompt directions entirely.

The website appears to be functioning normally again. OpenAI says it’s now investigating what caused of the outage that occurred between 3:16PM PT and 7:38PM PT yesterday.

On the 5th day of ‘ship-mas,’ OpenAI demonstrated ChatGPT’s integration with Apple Intelligence across iOS and macOS, which launches today. The demo showed Siri delivering ChatGPT-generated responses, with a link to view full answers in the ChatGPT app.

As part of its 12 days of “ship-mas” event, OpenAI announced the release of Canvas out of preview, making it easier to view and tweak lengthy writing or sections of code generated by ChatGPT. The tool can now also execute Python code and be used within custom GPTs.

A message currently displayed on the signup page says that account creation is temporarily unavailable due to heavy traffic. On X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company had “significantly underestimated demand” and that it’ll take a while to get everyone access to Sora.