But how risky are OpenAI’s new models, really?
OpenAI just released its latest series of models, named “ o1 ,” featuring an approach to complex problem solving that uses a new “chain of thought” technique. By breaking a user query down into distin...
OpenAI isn't selling equity — it's selling shares of profits that may never come. Investors can’t get enough.
Much has been written about OpenAI’s unique corporate structure : basically, OpenAI was initially a nonprofit, and the company wanted to raise money to fuel more capital-intensive projects, but it did...
Traffic to claude.ai has risen sharply
Open Rivalry Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has become synonymous with AI chatbots, inspiring a swathe of competitors. One of those, Claude, is gaining serious traction with users. From a ...
Just a few bad Applebots
Over the past year, publishing giants like Conde Nast, , Atlantic Media and the Associated Press have been inking deals to license their content to OpenAI. At the same time, publishers have been playi...
80% of OpenAI’s staff joined after ChatGPT launched
ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s transition from non-profit to for-profit has been a bumpy one, according to a New York Times report citing interviews with 20 current and former employees. Much of those growing...
Elon Musk’s xAI is literally and figuratively toxic
xAI and its “ spicy ” chatbot and offensive image generator Grok are doing their best to contribute to the general toxic atmosphere of X, where a lot of their content is posted. Turns out that xAI may...
Google Gemini, the creator of the racially diverse Nazis, is back
Six months after unceremoniously shelving it , Google has brought back the AI image technology responsible for such hits as the Black founding fathers and racially diverse Nazis . Google announced tod...
When AI eats itself
As tech companies search for more troves of human-generated text and images to train their AI models on, some have turned to using AI-generated content (or “synthetic data”) to help fill in the gaps. ...
Three-quarters of founders in the latest Y Combinator cohort are working on AI startups
If you want to understand the extent to which artificial intelligence (AI) has gripped Silicon Valley, look no further than the latest cohort of Y Combinator. For nearly two decades, Y Combinator has ...
Publishers are damned if they do, damned if they don’t (let Google scrape their sites)
The thing about Google’s search monopoly is it also gives the company an advantage when it comes to newer businesses like generative AI. Bloomberg writes about how publishers are in a devil’s bargain ...
AI companies are propping up AI companies
AI trained on content generated by AI is bad . AI companies supported by other AI companies is a risky situation too. The Wall Street Journal did an interesting dive into the economics of the AI ecosy...
TikTok — like Meta and X — is also paying users to generate AI slop
TikTok, Meta and X all incentivize users to post on their sites by offering cash for virality. They seem to all be incentivizing bad behavior — made much easier by generative AI. An excellent Wall Str...
AI is mining the sum of human knowledge from Wikipedia. What does that mean for its future?
The meteoric rise of AI in the last few years has caused a huge demand for data on which to train its large language models. That load has fallen heavily on Wikipedia, the world’s largest repository o...
Meta, like Twitter, is also paying people to generate AI slop
Surprise! The social media companies tasked with stopping the AI slop on their platforms are responsible for it. Remember shrimp Jesus ? 404 Media found that Facebook, through its Creator Bonus Progra...
OpenAI secures $80bn valuation
OpenAI, the company behind viral generative AI tool ChatGPT, has completed its latest round of fundraising , valuing the company at some $80 billion. The deal comes after chaos at the company gripped...
Robottal: Google and OpenAI release rival video-generative products
Portal combat OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, yesterday announced new generative video model Sora , capable of transforming short text descriptions into intricately detailed, high-definition clips — jus...
Wiki Peaks
Wiki Peaks ChatGPT was the most viewed Wikipedia article of 2023! As anyone who read our Sunday deep dive on Wiki last month will know, the site’s become a first stop for many netizens looking to lear...
Control Alt delete: Exploring OpenAI's corporate structure, after Sam Altman’s shock dismissal
Control Alt delete It’s been a chaotic few days for OpenAI, the artificial intelligence giant behind ChatGPT. In the ~72 hours since our Friday send, co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was shock-fired by ...
AI high: Google is in talks to invest millions into Character.ai
AI’m feeling lucky Google is reportedly lining up an investment worth “hundreds of millions of dollars” in Character.ai, just weeks after the company agreed to push some $2 billion into another AI s...
Machine earning: OpenAI's valuation looks set to soar again
Complicated airflow Talk is meant to be cheap, but OpenAI, the force behind the viral hit ChatGPT, has turned it into an absolute goldmine, with the company currently in discussions to sell shares at...