That reflects not Mr Altman’s leadership but a broader trend in the technology industry, one that OpenAI itself precipitated. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the market for AI labour has been transformed. Zeki Research, a market-intelligence firm, reckons that around 20,000 companies in the West are hiring AI experts. Rapid advances in … Read more
Actress Scarlett Johansson has claimed that OpenAI used a voice for their new ChatGPT 4o chatbot that she found “eerily similar” to her own, despite having declined the company’s request to use her voice. In a statement to NPR, Johansson detailed her experience with the tech giant and its latest AI voice, “Sky.” NPR’s Technology … Read more
OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, highlighted significant elements in the latest version of ChatGPT launched on May 13, underscoring a major leap in AI accessibility for free and interface innovation. Altman shared his insights on his blog following the launch of the latest version of ChatGPT. GPT-4o is an advanced version of the AI technology powering … Read more
The comparison with the famously capex-happy energy industry is apt not just because of the sums involved. AI needs vast amounts of processing power. And that processing power needs vast amounts of electricity. On May 2nd Bob Blue, chief executive of Dominion Energy, one of America’s biggest utilities, said that data-centre developers now regularly ask … Read more
Maintaining that GPT-4 “kind of sucks”, Open AI CEO Sam Altman said recently his company will release an “amazing new model” this year. This has sparked speculation that OpenAI may release GPT-5 sometime between June and August this year. Why is this a big deal? What triggered the excitement? OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, inadvertently … Read more
Elon Musk on Friday announced that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will launch the latest version of its Grok-1.5 chatbot for the social media platform X. The enhanced version of Grok AI chatbot will be available for X users from next week and should exceed current AI technology in all metrics, Elon Musk said. The … Read more
One reason the world’s corporate elite jet off to Davos each year is to check in on important relationships, be they with critical suppliers or big-spending clients. This year many are wondering about their relationships with Microsoft and OpenAI , the startup behind ChatGPT. The companies are the world’s most prominent purveyors of artificial intelligence … Read more
Open AI CEO Sam Altman has given his first reaction to Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the artificial intelligence startup. Altman, who was part of OpenAI’s founding team, said he texted the Tesla CEO when he heard about Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI. Journalist Kara Swisher had asked Altman what he had texted Musk upon knowing about … Read more
OpenAI’s much-anticipated text-to-video generation tool, Sora, has been creating waves in the tech world ever since its announcement by CEO Sam Altman last month. The tool, which boasts groundbreaking capabilities, has captivated social media users with its ability to generate videos from text prompts. Sam Altman’s announcement of Sora came alongside an invitation to followers … Read more
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Thursday over its relationship with the tech giant Microsoft. A former board member of the OpenAI, Elon Musk has alleged that the artificial intelligence company compromised from its original mission to build AI systems for public welfare and transformed into a profit maximization entity under Microsoft. … Read more