OpenAI: Latest News and Analysis

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
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 ...
TechCrunch
Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
Counsel for billionaire Elon Musk have filed for an injunction against OpenAI, seeking to prevent the company from transitioning to a for-profit.
VentureBeat
OpenAI faces critical test as Chinese models close the gap in AI leadership
In the fast-moving world of AI, competition is heating up—and nowhere is this more evident than in the battle over advanced reasoning models. In just the past few days, three new AI models from Chinese developers—Deepseek R1 (HighFlyer Capital Management),
Reuters
Italian watchdog warns publisher GEDI against sharing data with OpenAI
Italy's data protection watchdog has warned Italian publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with ChatGPT owner OpenAI, it said on Friday, citing concern over potential breaches of EU ...
TechCrunch
Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
QwQ-32B-Preview is “openly” available under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used for commercial applications. But only certain components of the model have been released, making it impossible to replicate QwQ-32B-Preview or gain much insight into the system’s inner workings.
Reuters
Orange signs deal with OpenAI to get access to pre-release AI models
Orange has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in Europe that will give the French telecoms operator access to pre-release AI models, group chief artificial intelligence officer Steve Jarrett said on Wednesday.
TechCrunch
OpenAI moves to trademark its o1 ‘reasoning’ models
OpenAI has filed a trademark application for its latest AI model, o1, as the firm moves to shield its intellectual property.
TechCrunch
OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked
A group of artists appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what it's calling duplicity and "art washing" on OpenAI's part.
Fortune
A group of artists just leaked access to OpenAI’s hotly anticipated Sora video tool to protest ‘corporate AI overlords’
A group of artists, volunteering as beta testers for OpenAI’s Sora video AI model, shared the API to access the model on Hugging Face in protest, calling out what they claim are exploitative practices ...
The Verge
Artists say they leaked OpenAI’s Sora video model in protest
Now, it looks like some artists leaked access to the model in protest of being used by the company for what they claim is “unpaid R&D and PR.” We received access to Sora with the promise to be early ...
Reuters
Orange enlists Meta and OpenAI to develop AI language models in Africa
Orange will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.
Bloomberg
SoftBank Seeks to Buy $1.5 Billion OpenAI Shares From Employees
SoftBank Group Corp. aims to increase its stake in OpenAI by acquiring up to $1.5 billion in shares from the startup’s employees, according to people familiar with the matter.
Wall Street Journal
Inside Elon Musk’s Quest to Beat OpenAI at Its Own Game
The Tesla CEO is racing to make xAI, which launched after its competitors, the world’s most advanced AI company.
Fortune
OpenAI’s Sora video tool was leaked by a group of artists to protest ‘corporate AI overlords’
A group of artists volunteering as beta testers for OpenAI's new and unreleased AI video product, Sora, publicly shared access to the tool on Tuesday to protest what they said were the company's ...