5 h. ago What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low.  However, the recent […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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14 h. ago OpenAI plans to integrate Sora’s video generator into ChatGPT

OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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41 h. ago AI models trained on unsecured code become toxic, study finds

A group of AI researchers has discovered a curious — and troubling — phenomenon: Models say some pretty toxic stuff after being fine-tuned on unsecured code. In a recently published paper, the group explained that training models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, on code that contains vulnerabilities leads the models to give dangerous advice, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 d. ago How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans

OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 d. ago ‘OpenAI’ Job Scam Targeted International Workers Through Telegram

An alleged job scam, led by “Aiden” from “OpenAI,” recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED.

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4 d. ago OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Husband Welcome Baby Boy Born by Surrogacy

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, announced the birth of a baby boy via surrogacy in a post to X over the weekend. Altman married software engineer Oliver Mulherin in 2024. The post OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Husband Welcome Baby Boy Born by Surrogacy appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 d. ago Alaska pollock could have a new competitor in this growing surimi market

Alaska pollock could have a new competitor in this growing surimi market  IntraFish

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4 d. ago AI nonprofit CEO says 'closed nature' of most artificial intelligence research hinders innovation

A year before Elon Musk helped start OpenAI in San Francisco, philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen already had established his own nonprofit artificial intelligence research laboratory in Seattle.

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6 d. ago Three arrested in S.F. after protesting AI technology outside OpenAI headquarters

Three arrested in S.F. after protesting AI technology outside OpenAI headquarters  San Francisco Chronicle

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7 d. ago Report: OpenAI plans to shift compute needs from Microsoft to SoftBank

OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 d. ago OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries

OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator, its so-called AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart from […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 d. ago Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house

Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision to step away from an OpenAI collaboration, is centered around Helix, a “generalist” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. VLAs are a new phenomenon for robotics, leveraging […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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9 d. ago ChatGPT will now combat bias with new measures put forth by OpenAI

OpenAI has announced an updated Model Spec, a living document that addresses bias by setting benchmarks for its models and offering it publicly for feedback.

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1 week ago Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B

Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — a higher valuation than reported just weeks ago. Bloomberg reports that VC firm Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and pledging to invest half a billion […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab to Make AI More Accessible

After leaving OpenAI last year, Mira Murati is finally ready to share what she's working on.

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1 week ago OpenAI may give board special voting rights to ward off takeover attempts

To fend off future hostile takeover attempts, OpenAI is considering giving its non-profit board special voting rights, according to a new report in the Financial Times. The rights would allow the board to overrule major investors in the company, preserving some of its powers after OpenAI completes its transition to a for-profit. OpenAI was founded […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, late Monday night, along with new capabilities in the Grok apps for iOS and the web. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on Musk’s social network, X. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago Mistral releases regional model focused on Arabic language and culture

The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical. On Monday, Paris-based AI startup Mistral — which is vying to rival the likes of U.S.-based Anthropic and OpenAI — is releasing a model that’s a bit different from its usual LLM. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago Suchir Balaji's death: San Francisco police provides important update on OpenAI whistleblower's ‘murder’

Suchir Balaji's death: San Francisco police provides important update on OpenAI whistleblower's ‘murder’  The Times of India

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1 week ago Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled widespread speculation online. Balaji made headlines in October when he accused OpenAI of illegally using copyrighted material to train […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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