SearchGPT Rolling Out to All OpenAI Users Starting Today The dedicated ChatGPT search engine that OpenAI developed is rolling out to all users starting today, OpenAI announced as part of its 12 days of OpenAI event. SearchGPT was added to ChatGPT in late October, providing improved AI-based searches right from the ChatGPT app and web interface. According to OpenAI, SearchGPT is able to search the web…

OpenAI has finally released Sora Free users can still browse a feed of AI-generated videos created by the community. | Screenshot: OpenAIOpenAI 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 …

Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL? Image: OpenAIOn Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a simple URL on X: chat.com. It automatically routes to OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT. Prior to this, the domain was owned by Dharmesh Shah, the founder and CTO of HubSpot. In early 2023, Shah purchased the chat.com domain for $10 million. However, just a few months later, he announced …

OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model Image: The VergeOpenAI is releasing a lighter, cheaper model for developers to tinker with called GPT-4o Mini. It costs significantly less than full-sized models and is said to be more capable than GPT-3.5. Building apps using OpenAI’s models can rack up a huge bill. Developers without the means to afford to tinker with it can get priced out of …

OpenAI is plagued by safety concerns Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergeOpenAI is a leader in the race to develop AI as intelligent as a human. Yet, employees continue to show up in the press and on podcasts to voice their grave concerns about safety at the $80 billion nonprofit research lab. The latest comes from The Washington Post, where an anonymous source claimed OpenAI rush…

The owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand Image: Toys R UsDo you have fond memories of Toys “R” Us, back before private equity helped lay it to waste? If so, I’m really curious what you think of this partially AI-generated video that the zombie brand is calling “the first-ever brand film using OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, Sora.” OpenAI’s Sora wowed the world in February with photore…

Apple and OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet, says Bloomberg Allison Johnson / The VergeWhile the partnership between Apple and OpenAI announced at WWDC this week promises to give ChatGPT a prestigious place in Apple’s ecosystem, it seems neither party is paying the other to make that happen. According to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple instead believes that the exposure OpenAI will receive f…

OpenAI Whistleblowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture A group of current and former employees are calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.

OpenAI has a new safety team — it’s run by Sam Altman Illustration: The VergeOpenAI is forming a new safety team, and it’s led by CEO Sam Altman, along with board members Adam D’Angelo and Nicole Seligman. The committee will make recommendations on “critical safety and security decisions for OpenAI projects and operations” — a concern several key AI researchers shared when leaving the company this …

The Chaos at OpenAI, Explained How fears over the future led to a tech-world coup.

What revolt at OpenAI means for Microsoft Wherever Sam Altman ends up, the tech giant hopes to protect its interests

Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSam Altman’s surprise move to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn’t a done deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman are still open to returning to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him step aside, multiple sources tell The Verge. The promised mass exodus of virtually every OpenAI employ…

OpenAI is opening up DALL-E 3 access Image: OpenAIOpenAI is launching wider availability of its latest text-to-image generator. On Thursday, the company is giving ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers access to the new DALL-E 3 model that works within the ChatGPT app. OpenAI says it has prepared a safety mitigation stack for the model that makes it ready for an expanded release. DA…

OpenAI releases third version of DALL-E Image: OpenAIOpenAI announced the third version of its generative AI visual art platform DALL-E, which now lets users use ChatGPT to create prompts and includes more safety options. DALL-E converts text prompts to images. But even DALL-E 2 got things wrong, often ignoring specific wording. The latest version, OpenAI researchers said, understand…

OpenAI opens GPT-3.5 Turbo up for custom tuning Illustration: The VergeOpenAI has announced that businesses can now fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo using their own data — OpenAI claims the resulting custom model can match or exceed the abilities of GPT-4 for certain tasks. Later this fall, the company says it will open up the arguably more advanced GPT-4 for the same purpose this fall. Fine-tuning le…

Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler Image: OpenAIOpenAI now lets you block its web crawler from scraping your site to help train GPT models. In a blog post, OpenAI said website operators can specifically disallow its GPTBot crawler on their site’s Robots.txt file or block its IP address. “Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future model…

OpenAI can’t tell if something was written by AI after all Image: OpenAIOpenAI shuttered a tool that was supposed to tell human writing from AI due to a low accuracy rate. In an (updated) blog, OpenAI said it decided to end its AI classifier as of July 20th. “We are working to incorporate feedback and are currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text,” the company said. As it shuts…

OpenAI loses its trust and safety leader Image: The VergeOpenAI’s head of trust and safety, Dave Willner, is stepping down from the company as the AI industry faces more scrutiny around privacy and security from policymakers. Willner has been working in trust and safety for nearly a decade. Before joining OpenAI, Willner was head of trust and safety at childcare startup Otter and led …

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