OpenAI: Latest News and Analysis

Reuters
OpenAI unveils 'o3' reasoning AI models in test phase
OpenAI said on Friday it was testing new reasoning AI models, o3 and o3 mini, in a sign of growing competition with rivals such as Google to create smarter models capable of tackling complex problems.
VentureBeat
Google unveils new reasoning model Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking to rival OpenAI o1
Unlike competitor reasoning model o1 from OpenAI, Gemini 2.0 enables users to access its step-by-step reasoning through a dropdown menu.
Reuters
Italy fines OpenAI 15 million euros over privacy rules breach
Italy's privacy watchdog said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) after closing an investigation into use of personal data by the generative artificial ...
Axios
OpenAI's chairman wrestles with the company's future
OpenAI's planned restructuring will likely require the company's board to put a price tag on its groundbreaking technology. Why it matters: OpenAI wants to spin out its for-profit subsidiary as an independent company and give it control over OpenAI's innovations — but in order to do that,
Fortune
OpenAI says it’s not using voice data or transcripts of calls to new 1-800-ChatGPT phone line for AI training
Offering a free phone service to collect voice data is a tried and true Silicon Valley technique pioneered by Google.
TechCrunch
OpenAI may pay its nonprofit arm ‘billions of dollars’ in conversion to for-profit
OpenAI's transition away from a for-profit corporation governed by a nonprofit board is well underway — and the nonprofit could be compensated royally for it.
TechCrunch
OpenAI brings its o1 reasoning model to its API — for certain developers
OpenAI is bringing its o1 model to its API — and introducing other, related developer-focused improvements across its product portfolio.
VentureBeat
OpenAI opens up its most powerful model, o1, to third-party developers
A major step forward for devs looking to build new advanced AI applications or integrate the most advanced OpenAI tech.
Fortune
Top AI labs aren’t doing enough to ensure AI is safe, a flurry of recent datapoints suggest
A third party lab caught OpenAI's o1 model trying to deceive.
TechCrunch
OpenAI brings its AI-powered web search tool to more ChatGPT users
ChatGPT Search, OpenAI's AI-powered web search experience, is now live for all ChatGPT users — with several new features in tow.
Fortune
Google DeepMind’s new Veo 2 AI video generator trounces OpenAI’s Sora with 4K resolution
Google claims Veo 2 has a "better understanding of real-world physics"—an issue that often trips up such tools.
VentureBeat
Google debuts new AI video generator Veo 2 claiming better audience scores than Sora
Google said Veo 2 has “a better understanding of real-world physics and the nuances of human movement and expression.” It is available on Google Labs’ VideoFX platform — b ...
SiliconANGLE
OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT’s search engine with speed, usability improvements
Until now, the search engine was only available with the chatbot’s paid tiers. Today’s update expands availability to the free version. While at it, OpenAI has added speed improvements and a setting ...
Bloomberg
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search Features to All Users
OpenAI is rolling out a search product to all users of its chatbot ChatGPT beginning on Monday, escalating its rivalry with Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
TechCrunch
Meta asks California AG to block OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit
Facebook’s parent company Meta is supporting Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s conversion from a non-profit company into a for-profit one. As reported
Inc
OpenAI Dispute Over AI ‘Dictatorship’ Goes to Court
OpenAI is filing a response opposing Musk’s requested order, saying it would cripple OpenAI’s business and mission to the advantage of Musk and his own AI company. A hearing is set for January before ...
The Verge
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever says the way AI is built is about to change
OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left start his own AI lab called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He has avoided the limelight since ...
Fortune
Sam Altman says Trump will ‘lead our country into the age of AI’ as OpenAI gives $1 million to inaugural fund
The announcement comes one day after Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it donated $1 million to the same fund.
TechCrunch
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever believes superintelligent AI will be ‘unpredictable’
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever spoke on a range of topics at NeurIPS, the annual AI conference, including his predictions for AI "superintelligence." ...
Reuters
OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk bid to block for-profit conversion
OpenAI asked a federal judge in California on Friday to reject a request by billionaire Elon Musk to halt the ChatGPT maker’s conversion to a for-profit company.
The Verge
OpenAI just dropped new Elon Musk receipts: ‘You can’t sue your way to AGI’
OpenAI just dropped a new blog post defending itself against Musk that outlines some new text messages between cofounders Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and former board member ...
TechCrunch
ChatGPT now understands real-time video, seven months after OpenAI first demoed it
OpenAI has finally released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago.
VentureBeat
OpenAI’s o1 model doesn’t show its thinking, giving open source an advantage
o1 does not reveal its reasoning chain, which makes it difficult to get consistent results and correct the model's responses and logic.
Wired
Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.
The Verge
OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘ship-mas’: all the new announcements
OpenAI’s 12 days of “ship-mas” have officially begun, with the company set to reveal some new features, products, and demos during all 12 days starting December 5th, just a few days shy of the second anniversary of ChatGPT’s explosive launch in 2022. According to the company, ChatGPT now has over 300 million weekly users.
TechCrunch
OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos
OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT series of reveals, called “12 Days of OpenAI,” will be livestreamed at 10 a.m. PT each weekday
TechCrunch
Why OpenAI is only letting some Sora users create videos of real people
OpenAI says it'll only let a 'subset' of Sora users generate videos of real people, owing to the risks associated with the feature.
TechCrunch
OpenAI’s Sora video generator is launching for ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers — but not in the EU
Judging by a new support page, it seems that users in the EU and the UK won't get access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, at launch.
Financial Times
Live news: OpenAI releases AI text-to-video generator Sora for paying ChatGPT users
OpenAI has released Sora, its video-generation model, as a product for paying ChatGPT users. The artificial intelligence tool, which converts text to video, has been a major innovation that the San Francisco-based company has been pitching to the film industry this year despite concern that it could pose a threat to jobs in that sector.
Bloomberg
AI Voice Startup From Ex-OpenAI Researcher Valued at $200 Million
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world
CNBC
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: You could get paid one day for the AI training data we use
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says content creators should be paid for their contributions to artificial intelligence models, including for chatbots like ChatGPT.
TechCrunch
Will people really pay $200 a month for OpenAI’s new chatbot?
OpenAI has released a pricey new chatbot. At $200, it's the most expensive in its category. So, will people pay for it?
TechCrunch
OpenAI’s 2024 event: Live updates for ChatGPT product reveals and demos
OpenAI’s end of the year event is here. Starting today, the company is hosting “12 Days of OpenAI,” a series of daily livestreams with demos and product announcements through December 23. Follow along live with us to see all the reveals below.
VentureBeat
OpenAI launches full o1 model with image uploads and analysis, debuts ChatGPT Pro
Whether these developments can maintain OpenAI’s leadership in an increasingly crowded market remains to be seen.
The Verge
OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its o1 ‘reasoning’ model
The company is releasing the full version of its o1 model (replacing o1-preview), which was initially released as a limited preview in September (code-named ‘Strawberry’). The new model will be ...
The Verge
OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘ship-mas:’ all the new announcements
Happy holidays from OpenAI. The AI startup plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features, products, and demos for 12 days, starting on December 5th. The announcements will include OpenAI’s long ...
Reuters
OpenAI launches $200 ChatGPT subscription for research use
OpenAI on Thursday launched a version of its popular chatbot ChatGPT priced at $200 per month, which can be used in engineering fields and for research, as the AI firm looks to expand industry ...
Reuters
OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft, FT reports
OpenAI is in discussions to ditch a provision that shuts Microsoft out of its most advanced models when the start-up achieves "artificial general intelligence", as it seeks to unlock billions of dollars of future investment,
TechCrunch
OpenAI’s o1 model sure tries to deceive humans a lot
OpenAI finally released the full version of o1, which gives smarter answers than GPT-4o by using additional compute to "think" about questions. However, ...
Reuters
Defense firm Anduril partners with OpenAI to use AI in national security missions
Defense technology company Anduril Industries and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Wednesday announced a partnership to develop and deploy advanced artificial intelligence solutions for national security ...
TechCrunch
OpenAI inks deal to upgrade Anduril’s anti-drone tech
OpenAI plans to team up with Anduril, the defense startup, to supply its AI tech to systems the U.S. military uses to counter drone attacks.
The Verge
OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas’ include Sora and new reasoning model
The AI startup plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features and products for 12 days, starting on December 5th. The releases will include OpenAI’s long-awaited text-to-video AI tool Sora and a ...
SiliconANGLE
OpenAI to host 12-day product announcement series with new reasoning model, Sora expected
According to The Verge, OpenAI will also launch its long-anticipated Sora model. The algorithm was first previewed in February. It can generate one-minute videos based on natural language prompts or ...
VentureBeat
What AI vendor should you choose? Here are the top 7 (OpenAI still leads)
A review of 29 vendors put OpenAI at the top, but 2025 will see demand for a mix of proprietary, open source and small AI models.
TechCrunch
Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue
Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if ...
Inc
Is OpenAI Getting Into the Advertising Business? The Company Is Sending Mixed Messages
OpenAI, maker of the mega-popular ChatGPT, is considering introducing advertising to its growing suite of products, according to an interview with the AI market leader’s chief financial officer.
Fortune
Elon Musk is ratcheting up his attacks on his old partner Sam Altman, calling him ‘Swindly Sam’ and OpenAI a ‘market-paralyzing gorgon’
Altman’s tense relationship with Musk could complicate his and his company's access to Trump’s administration.
SiliconANGLE
Elon Musk tries to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition in latest legal tussle
In the filing for a preliminary injunction Nov. 29, Musk, along with his artificial intelligence startup xAI Corp. and former OpenAI board member Shivon Zillis, is also seeking to stop the company ...
The Verge
Elon Musk targets OpenAI’s for-profit transition in a new filing
In a new motion filed late Friday in his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk’s attorneys have asked for a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from transitioning to a for-profit enterprise, reports ...