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OpenAI has dropped its plan to become a for-profit corporation after public criticism. The non-profit entity will continue to govern and control the company. The for-profit LLC will become a Public Benefit Corporation, but it will be controlled by the non-profit entity.
OpenAI has rolled back ChatGPT's latest update, which made the AI chatbot too sycophantic. The company is evaluating system prompts and realigning the default behavior of ChatGPT. OpenAI admits that focusing on "short-term feedback" led to ChatGPT's sycophantic behavior.
OpenAI Releases o3 and o4-mini, Says o3 Can ‘Generate Novel Hypotheses’
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI has released the full o3 reasoning model along with the next-gen o4-mini model. These new reasoning models can use several tools inside ChatGPT and can analyze images as well. The o3 model delivers exceptional performance in coding, math, science, and visual tasks.
OpenAI Considers Launching Its Own Social Media Platform to Rival X
Anshuman Jain
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OpenAI might be planning a ChatGPT-powered social media app to compete with X, Instagram, and Facebook. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, is looking for feedback from experts, hinting at early-stage development of the app. However, there are no other details or a timeline when we can expect such app to arrive.
OpenAI has launched three new models under the GPT-4.1 series. They are trained exclusively for developers. OpenAI says these models offer much better coding performance than GPT-4o. In addition, you get a large context window of 1 million tokens, and the model follows instructions very well.
ChatGPT can now remember everything about you and draw on your interests and preferences to deliver a personalized response. The new improved memory feature is rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, starting today.
OpenAI has filed a counterclaim against Elon Musk's lawsuit. OpenAI argues that Musk is trying to slow down the company and that Musk is running a "campaign of harassment." The trial is set to begin in the spring of 2026.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared on X stating that GPT-5 is coming in the next few months. GPT-5 will integrate the GPT-series and o-series reasoning models. GPT-4.5 will be released in the next few weeks.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked discussion when he said, "I don’t think I’m going to be smarter than GPT-5" in a panel discussion at TU Berlin.
OpenAI's first Operator AI agent is finally here and it can perform tasks for you in a web browser. You can ask Operator to buy groceries, book a table at a restaurant, buy tickets, and more. If you have a ChatGPT Pro subscription, you can start using it today.
We have tested OpenAI's Sora tool which lets you generate AI videos. It's good for generating abstract visuals and animated scenes. However, in some areas, it leaves you disappointed. Check out our article to watch Sora-generated videos and judge by yourself.
OpenAI's Sora video generation tool offers many new features including Remix, Storyboard, Re-cut, Blend, and more. It also has a new UI where you can create and edit AI videos seamlessly. Apart from that, Sora videos have C2PA metadata embedded for greater transparency.
If you want to test out OpenAI's Sora tool to generate AI videos, you must have a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription. The Plus plan lets you create 50 videos and the Pro plan offers 500 videos in a month. You can start using Sora at sora.com.
OpenAI has finally launched Sora, its text-to-video AI tool. You can start using Sora at sora.com with your ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription. You can generate videos up to 20 seconds at 1080p resolution.
OpenAI has introduced a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Pro that costs $200 per month. It hosts the full o1 model by replacing the o1-preview model. ChatGPT Pro also gets an exclusive 'o1 pro mode' that uses more compute resources to solve harder problems.
Speaking at the NYT's DealBook summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AGI will matter much less and the safety concerns don't come at the AGI moment. He also said OpenAI will achieve AGI much sooner than most people think.
12 Days of OpenAI: ChatGPT Maker to Launch Sora and New Features Starting Tomorrow
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI has confirmed that in the next 12 days, it's going to release new AI products and features non-stop. The company is likely to launch Sora and a reasoning model, among other things.
OpenAI is reportedly planning to release its AI agent codenamed 'Operator' in January next year. The AI agent can perform actions in a web browser based on user input.
Out of nowhere, ChatGPT has now acquired the chat.com domain name. While the exact price of acquisition is not known, details suggest somewhere north of $15 million. Here are all the details!
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Search to challenge Google in the search domain. It can browse the web and find current information on all the latest events. You can also install the Chrome extension to replace Google Search with ChatGPT Search.
Sam Altman Denies Reports of OpenAI Launching GPT-5 ‘Orion’ by December
Arjun Sha
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According to a new report, OpenAI is planning to release its next big model, GPT-5 aka Orion by December this year. Microsoft is also readying its Azure infrastructure to host the Orion model and it will be completed by November.
Miles Brundage, former Head of Policy Research and Senior Advisor for the AGI Readiness team has quit OpenAI. Brundage says he wants to work in the non-profit sector for greater freedom to publish.
Microsoft AI Chief Apparently Yelled at OpenAI Employees; Cracks Starting to Appear?
Arjun Sha
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A recent report by The New York Times reveals that OpenAI and Microsoft are at loggerheads. According to the report, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman yelled at an OpenAI employee over the delayed transfer of advanced AI technologies to Microsoft. OpenAI, on the other hand, wants to set itself free from Microsoft's control, and looking to invoke the AGI clause.
OpenAI Facing Internal Conflicts Amid Sam Altman’s Push for Moneymaking Products
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI just raised $6.6 billion in the largest funding round ever, but its top scientists, researchers, and co-founders have left the company. Many former employees say the focus is on shipping moneymaking products over doing pioneering research. Under Sam Altman's leadership, the company is going through a huge cultural shift.
I Tried Out ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode, and It’s Not What OpenAI Demoed
Arjun Sha
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ChatGPT Advanced Voice is finally here, but its capabilities have been significantly restricted. For natural free-flowing conversation, it's pretty good, but it avoids generating human-like expressions. It can't sing a lullaby or do a voice impression of public figures. However, it remembers the context very well and for personalized conversation, you can set custom instructions too.
Mira Murati’s Sudden Exit Raises Serious Questions About OpenAI’s For-Profit Ambition
Arjun Sha
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In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has abruptly resigned from the company. Another report says that OpenAI is planning to dismantle its non-profit board and move to a for-profit corporation. With Murati's exit, OpenAI has seen a series of high-profile exits in the last few months.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says Superintelligence is a Few Thousand Days Away
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes an astounding claim and says superintelligence can be achieved within the next few thousand days. OpenAI believes scaling current AI systems will lead to generalized intelligence. However, other prominent AI researchers argue that LLMs are not sufficient to unlock intelligence.
A Reddit user shared a conversation with ChatGPT where the chatbot had initiated the conversation without user prompting. Another user said ChatGPT inquired about his health. It seemed bizarre, but OpenAI has now confirmed the issue. The company says the issue has been fixed now.
Strawberry AI is Here: OpenAI Introduces ‘o1’ Advanced Reasoning Models
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI has finally introduced a series of new advanced reasoning models called 'o1'. The new models excel at science, coding, and math. It beats all AI models out there in all kinds of benchmarks. ChatGPT Plus users can access new o1 models starting today.
OpenAI is planning to release its intelligent Strawberry AI system in the next two weeks, ahead of the release schedule. Those who tested Strawberry say that it takes 10 to 20 seconds to generate a response.
OpenAI’s SearchGPT Falls Short of Expectations, Reveal Early Access Users
Arjun Sha
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According to a recent report, OpenAI's SearchGPT, a potential alternative to Google Search, is said to be underwhelming, and it's even less impressive than Perplexity. SearchGPT occasionally hallucinates and struggles to answer local and shopping queries.
OpenAI Close to Releasing Strawberry AI on ChatGPT; ‘Orion’ Could Be GPT-5
Arjun Sha
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A new report confirms that OpenAI is close to releasing the Strawberry engine to ChatGPT. Strawberry is an AI engine that can significantly improve reasoning capability and improve performance in math and programming areas. It could launch as early as this fall. Besides that, OpenAI is also training its next-gen 'Orion' AI model, said to be the successor of GPT-4/4o.
Project Strawberry is an internal OpenAI research project that is said to bring human-level reasoning capability. It's related to the Q* project, according to Reuters. Not only that, Project Strawberry can also plan and perform a series of actions unlocking agentic workflows. The project is said to be proficient in solving the hardest math problems.
OpenAI Co-founder Schulman Joins Anthropic, Brockman Takes Extended Leave
Arjun Sha
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John Schulman, one of the OpenAI co-founders and alignment head, has left the company to join Anthropic, a rival AI lab. Greg Brockman, OpenAI president and one of the key co-founders of OpenAI, has gone on an extended leave. Schulman says the decision to join Anthropic is a personal one as he wants to work on topics he is interested in.
OpenAI Hesitates to Detect AI-Written Assignments Because It Risks Losing Users
Sagnik Das Gupta
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A new WSJ report has highlighted that ChatGPT has had AI-detection tools with 99.9% accuracy in place, ready to release to the public, for a year now. However, the report also suggests that the company has been internally divided on whether or not to make it publicly available. The text watermarking method that OpenAI uses can accurately detect text that's straight away generated by ChatGPT without going through paraphrasing or any such external modifiers. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is also working on detecting the origins of a text via its metadata, which is a bit more complex to achieve. There have also developed C2PA Metadata for AI-generated Images that provides a reliable history of such images. All things considered, OpenAI should really stand its ground and release these tools to the public, and finally stay true to its promise of using AI responsibly.
After months of anticipation, OpenAI has finally unveiled its AI-powered ChatGPT search engine, known as SearchGPT. It's designed to answer fast using authentic sources and clear attribution. Users can also find all the sources and engage with the web results. That said, it's available in a limited prototype which means users have to join the waitlist to receive access.
OpenAI Launches GPT-4o mini Model; Faster and Cheaper Than GPT-3.5 Turbo
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI is back with a solid lightweight model that doesn't compromise on performance. The new GPT-4o mini model scores 82% on the MMLU benchmark and costs much less than GPT-3.5 Turbo, Gemini Flash, and Claude 3 Haiku. In fact, it outperforms some of the largest models such as Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4. You can start using the mini model on the free and paid version of ChatGPT starting today.
OpenAI has finally released a statement saying that GPT-4o's Voice Mode is being delayed. It will be available by the end of the next month to a select group of paid users in Alpha. And by the end of this year, all ChatGPT Plus users will get the new feature. The company is also working to bring screen-sharing capability to ChatGPT.
OpenAI’s Former Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever Launches a New AI Company
Arjun Sha
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Ilya Sutskever, the brain behind ChatGPT at OpenAI, left the company last month and now, he has announced a new company called Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI). It aims to create a safe superintelligence to ensure safety always remains ahead of capabilities.
Last year, OpenAI fired its CEO Sam Altman, only to appoint him back to the position a couple of days later. Now, some more details from ex-OpenAI board members, Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, have revealed the actual reasons behind Altman's firing and that has understandably raised some big concerns in the community. From "psychological abuse" to secrecy and lies, Altman has been accused of it all by the ex-board members.
In its blog, OpenAI has revealed that the company is training its next big frontier model and it will unlock the next level of AI capabilities, bringing us closer to AGI. The company has also formed a Safety and Security Committee to evaluate upcoming models and look into critical safety and security decisions.
Last week, OpenAI demoed the 'Sky' voice during the ChatGPT 4o launch. The voice seemed straight out of the movie 'Her', where Scarlett Johansson lent her voice to the AI character 'Samantha'. Now, it turns out Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was in contact with Scarlett Johansson to voice the new ChatGPT 4o system. However, Johansson had refused the offer, way back in September 2023. Now, Johansson is seeking clarity and transparency as to how the 'Sky' voice was developed. Meanwhile, OpenAI has paused the 'Sky' voice on ChatGPT.