For the last day of ship-mas, OpenAI previewed a new set of frontier "reasoning" models dubbed o3 and o3-mini. The Verge first reported that a new reasoning model would be coming during this event.

The company isn't releasing these models today (and admits final results may evolve with more post-training). However, OpenAI is accepting applications from the research community to test these systems ahead of public release (which it has yet to set a date for). OpenAI launched o1 (codenamed Strawberry) in September and is jumping straight to o3, skipping o2 to avoid confusion (or trademark conflicts) with the British telecom company called O2.

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For the 10th day of "ship-mas," OpenAI rolled out a way to call ChatGPT for up to 15 minutes for free over the phone using 1-800-CHATGPT.

The feature was a project spun up just a few weeks ago, OpenAI's chief product officer Kevin Weil said on the livestream. Users can now call ChatGPT in the US and message via WhatsApp globally at 1-800-242-8478. The 15-minute limit is per phone number per month, so really, you could spin up a few Google Voice numbers to get as much time with it as you want.

The phone number is built using OpenAI's Realtime API, and the WhatsApp feature is powered by GPT-4o mini through an integration with the WhatsApp AP …

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OpenAI launched Sora, its text-to-video AI model, on Monday as part of its 12-day "ship-mas" product release series, as The Verge previously reported it would. It's available today on Sora.com for ChatGPT subscribers in the US and "most other countries" through a new model, Sora Turbo. This model adds features like generating video from text, animating images, and remixing videos.

With a ChatGPT Plus subscription, OpenAI says you can generate up to 50 priority videos (1,000 credits) at resolutions up to 720p with 5-second durations. The $200 per month ChatGPT Pro subscription that launched last week comes with "unlimited generations" and up …

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OpenAI's highly-anticipated AI text-to-video generator, Sora, will become available to everyone today. In a video posted on Monday, Marques Brownlee confirmed its imminent release and detailed his experience using Sora over the past few weeks, calling the results "horrifying and inspiring at the same time."

OpenAI first revealed Sora in February but only made the tool available to a select number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to start.

Brownlee shows how Sora can convert your text prompt into a video, which you can then customize with additional text prompts as part of its "remix" tool. You can also use Sora to transform a p …

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OpenAI is creating a new, more expensive tier for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT, and is bringing its "reasoning" model series out of preview with an update.

The company is releasing the full version of its o1 model (replacing o1-preview), which was initially released as a limited preview in September (code-named 'Strawberry'). The new model will be available for ChatGPT Plus and Team users today, while Enterprise and Edu users will have access to it starting next week.

The company is also introducing ChatGPT Pro, a new $200 monthly subscription tier that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. It also includ …

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ChatGPT now has over 300 million people using the AI chatbot each week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the milestone during The New York Times' DealBook Summit on Wednesday, which comes just months after ChatGPT hit 200 million weekly users in August.

"Our product has scaled … now we have more than 300 million weekly active users," Altman said. "We have users sending more than 1 billion messages per day to ChatGPT."

ChatGPT has gr …

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