OpenAI plans to convert to a public benefit corporation. What exactly is that?
OpenAI confirmed plans to convert its company structure, adopting a for-profit public benefit corporation model. A PBC is a rare, relatively new company type that’s sort of a mix of a nonprofit and a ...
OpenAI confirms it’s planning to turn into a public benefit corporation
OpenAI laid out its plans to convert from a nonprofit-controlled company into a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) in a new blog post , confirming previous reporting . The rare company type w...
Microsoft and OpenAI have agreed on a definition of artificial general intelligence
OpenAI can terminate its $13 billion partnership with when the startup achieves artificial general intelligence — a squishy, debated term that generally means when AI can perform any tasks a human do...
What company’s past reveals the future of OpenAI?
OpenAI has, in a very short time, catapulted itself from a small operation tinkering in a speculative and math-heavy field to a household name that’s been compared favorably to some of the most lucrat...
OpenAI is Napster
Gone are the good old days of infecting your computer with a virus to download a free System of a Down MP3. Napster hit its popularity peak in 2001, just two years after launching its online peer-to-p...
OpenAI is Salesforce
When OpenAI released ChatGPT to the masses in November 2022, they were spellbound — for a bit. The tool seems amazing at answering questions. In real language. Like a person. It gives the veneer of ta...
OpenAI is Pixar
A breakthrough technology captures the public’s imagination; the disruption threatens multiple creative industries; a feverish race to achieve a futuristic goal once unimaginable begins. You could say...
OpenAI is Lyft
Back in 2007, the US housing market was about to fall off a cliff, and “Irreplaceable” by Beyoncé was the song of the year. Most people didn’t have smartphones, and you still had to pick up a phone to...
WSJ: OpenAI is hitting a wall with GPT-5 training
After 18 months’ work and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of computing time training its next major foundational model, GPT-5, OpenAI seems to have hit a wall. New reporting from The Wall Stree...
OpenAI announces new frontier models o3 and o3 mini
On the last day of “ shipmas ,” OpenAI saved what might be the biggest news for last, though the 1-800 number remains the most fun. In a puzzling branding move, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced their l...
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“Snacks Mix”: Zuck and Musk play nice, quantum goes to the moon, and our hot takes for 2025
What we’re talking about this week on the podcast: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk teaming up against OpenAI, Databricks raising a massive Series J, and Google’s quantum-computing breakthrough sending s...
Anthropic’s Claude model deceived researchers when asked to go against its rules
Before being released to the public, large language model developers embed a set of rules that they want the model to follow. To reduce the possible harm that can come from the misuse of these tools, ...
Call Now! 1-800-CHATGPT
On day 10 of its 12 “shipmas” mini-launch events, OpenAI delivered a most unexpected and charming present that feels right out of the 1980s. You can now just pick up your phone and call 1-800-CHATGPT ...
Marques Brownlee may have caught OpenAI training on his videos
This week, OpenAI released the first publicly available version of Sora, its AI video-generation tool. Sora generates impressive (and sometimes creepy ) short videos from text prompts. In the course o...
Apple rolls out more AI features with 18.2
Apple Intelligence is slowly getting smarter. Today the iPhone maker is rolling out a software update, 18.2, that adds a number of long-promised AI features to the latest iPhone models. Those include...
On the first day of “shipmas,” Sam Altman gave to me...
Yesterday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that to wrap up the year, the company would celebrate “shipmas” and launch and demo a new product or feature each day for the next 12 days, or as he put it, ...
Sam Altman denies OpenAI’s Microsoft deal is falling apart, teases product launches
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was interviewed today by Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, and he said a few interesting things about his company’s relationship with partner Microsoft, ...
No one is talking about ChatGPT anymore
Sam Altman is still talking about ChatGPT . He’s increasingly on his own. Mentions of “ChatGPT” on company earnings and conference transcripts peaked in 2023, about six months after OpenAI launched it...
Musk wants the court to slow OpenAI’s roll
Another bit of Elon news: on Friday, he filed a preliminary injunction against OpenAI in federal court to stop the $157 billion startup from converting into a fully for-profit business. For context, M...
SoftBank will buy $1.5 billion in OpenAI shares
OpenAI will allow employees to sell $1.5 billion worth of shares to SoftBank in a new tender offer first reported by CNBC. SoftBank already invested $500 million into OpenAI’s last funding round and w...