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REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 28 (Reuters) - ChatGPT owner OpenAI is not expected to offer Microsoft (MSFT.O) and other investors including Khosla Ventures and Thrive Capital seats on its new board, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. In a few tumultuous days last week, OpenAI ousted its CEO and founder Sam Altman without any detailed cause, setting off alarm bells among investors and employees. Microsoft, which has invested more than $10 billion in OpenAI, is one of the biggest backers of OpenAI that operates ChatGPT, its viral generative AI chatbot. In response to a question on the OpenAI board, a Microsoft spokesperson said, "We will wait until the board officially says something." OpenAI and Thrive did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while Khosla declined to comment.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Thomas Hayes, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Adam D'Angelo, D'Angelo, Altman, Satya Nadella, Khosla, Zaheer Kachwala, Mary Varghese, Kenneth Li, Arun Koyyur Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Khosla Ventures, Reuters, CNBC, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, Bengaluru

An aerial view of the San Francisco city skyline in California, U.S., October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSAN FRANCISCO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will eliminate 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce and end an agreement with a digital video effects company founded by the "Lord of the Rings" director as part of a "reset," the company said on Tuesday. Tuesday's announcement includes termination of the professional services piece of an agreement Unity struck with movie director Peter Jackson's visual effects company Weta FX in 2021 after Unity purchased the technology and engineering division of Weta FX. As a result, 265 employees whose jobs are related to the agreement will be laid off, the company said. Reporting by Anna Tong in San Francisco Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Carlos Barria, John Riccitiello, Jim Whitehurst, Roelof Botha, Peter Jackson's, Whitehurst, Anna Tong, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Unity Software, San, Unity, Sequoia Capital, FX, Weta, Reuters, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, California, U.S, Berlin, Singapore, Bellevue , Washington

[1/2] Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. The previously unreported letter and AI algorithm were key developments before the board's ouster of Altman, the poster child of generative AI, the two sources said. This could be applied to novel scientific research, for instance, AI researchers believe. In their letter to the board, researchers flagged AI’s prowess and potential danger, the sources said without specifying the exact safety concerns noted in the letter. Researchers have also flagged work by an "AI scientist" team, the existence of which multiple sources confirmed.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Chuck Schumer, Julia Nikhinson, Sam Altman’s, Altman, Mira Murati, I've, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu, Kenneth Li, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, Reuters, Microsoft, Economic Cooperation, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, OpenAI, San Francisco, Asia, New York

The previously unreported letter and AI algorithm were key developments before the board's ouster of Altman, the poster child of generative AI, the two sources said. An OpenAI spokesperson said that the message, sent by long-time executive Mira Murati, alerted staff to certain media stories without commenting on their accuracy. This could be applied to novel scientific research, for instance, AI researchers believe. In their letter to the board, researchers flagged AI’s prowess and potential danger, the sources said without specifying the exact safety concerns noted in the letter. Researchers have also flagged work by an "AI scientist" team, the existence of which multiple sources confirmed.

Persons: Sam Altman’s, Altman, Mira Murati, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Chuck Schumer, Julia Nikhinson, I've, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu, Kenneth Li, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Reuters, Microsoft, Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, Economic Cooperation, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, Washington , U.S, San Francisco, Asia, New York

[1/2] Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. The previously unreported letter and AI algorithm was a catalyst that caused the board to oust Altman, the poster child of generative AI, the two sources said. The sources cited the letter as one factor among a longer list of grievances by the board that led to Altman’s firing. According to one of the sources, long-time executive Mira Murati told employees on Wednesday that a letter about the AI breakthrough called Q* (pronounced Q-Star), precipitated the board's actions. OpenAI defines AGI as AI systems that are smarter than humans.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Chuck Schumer, Julia Nikhinson, Sam Altman’s, Altman, Mira Murati, ChatGPT, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu, Kenneth Li, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, Reuters, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, San Francisco, New York

Microsoft (MSFT.O) owns 49% of the for-profit operating company, according to sources familiar with the matter. Other investors and employees control 49%, with 2% owned by OpenAI's nonprofit parent, according to Semafor. OpenAI's board fired Altman on Friday after a "breakdown of communications," according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. Venture capital investors usually hold board seats or voting power in their portfolio companies but OpenAI is controlled by its nonprofit parent company OpenAI Nonprofit, which according to OpenAI's website was created to benefit "humanity, not OpenAI investors." Nonprofit boards have legal obligations to the organizations they oversee.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Altman, Minor Myers, Paul Weitzel, Weitzel, Steve Jobs, Anna Tong, Krystal Hu, Jody Godoy, Tom Hals, Kenneth Li, Lisa Shumaker, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Microsoft, Venture, OpenAI Nonprofit, University of Connecticut, Nonprofit, University of Nebraska, Apple, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco, New York

OpenAI and Altman did not reply to requests for comment. Kholsa Ventures, an early backer of OpenAI, wants Altman back at OpenAI but "will back him in whatever he does next," the fund's founder Vinod Khosla posted on X on Saturday. Others expressed support for joining Altman in starting a company, a third person familiar with the matter said. Tech website The Verge earlier reported the OpenAI board's discussions with Altman to return as CEO. Forbes reported on Saturday investors were plotting to restore Altman as CEO.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Vinod Khosla, Altman's, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Brockman, Szymon Sidor, Sidor, Jony, SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, Brad Lightcap, Forbes, Krystal Hu, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Gursimran, Chizu Nomiyama, Kenneth Li, William Mallard Organizations: Microsoft, Kholsa Ventures, Union, U.S, Altman, Reuters . Tech, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, New York, San Francisco, Gursimran Kaur, Bengaluru

The board of OpenAI, the company behind hit product ChatGPT, on Friday pushed out its high-profile CEO Altman, sending shock waves across the tech industry. These discussions, and options regarding our path forward, are ongoing this morning," Lightcap wrote in the memo. "We can say definitively that the board’s decision was not made in response to malfeasance or anything related to our financial, business, safety, or security/privacy practices," he wrote. "This was a breakdown in communication between Sam and the board." Reporting by Anna Tong in San Francisco; editing by Kenneth Li and Franklin PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Sam Altman's, Sam, Brad Lightcap, Altman, Mira Murati, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Szymon Sidor, Lightcap, Anna Tong, Kenneth Li, Franklin Paul Organizations: Microsoft, Reuters, Franklin Paul Our, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - OpenAI, whose generative AI products initially raised fears of widespread cheating on homework, is now exploring how it can get its popular ChatGPT chatbot into classrooms, according to a senior executive. Backed by billions of dollars from Microsoft (MSFT.O), OpenAI kicked off the generative AI craze last November by releasing its ChatGPT chatbot, which became one of the world's fastest-growing applications. But within a few months, teachers started seeing how ChatGPT could be beneficial, he said. A new team at OpenAI would be an extension of the work the company has already done to integrate its technology into the classroom. There are myriad ways to use ChatGPT in classrooms, said Andrew Mayne, a former OpenAI employee who works with educators through his AI consulting firm Interdimensional.

Persons: Brad Lightcap, ” Lightcap, OpenAI, we’re, Andrew Mayne, “ ChatGPT, ”, Anna Tong, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: FRANCISCO, INSEAD Americas, Microsoft, Union, U.S, Khan Academy, Schmidt Futures, “, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, OpenAI, Sydney

The Transamerica Pyramid building is seen as tourists ride a cable car in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 7, 2023. San Francisco has been waging for years a multi-pronged war on drugs and related crime, homelessness and unaffordable housing. "They do this for the Superbowl, they do this for conferences ... but nothing ends homelessness like a home," Boden said. The city has a homelessness rate of 887 people per 100,000 residents, according to a 2023 report from the San Francisco controller's office on 16 American cities. Reporting by Peter Henderson and Anna Tong in San Francisco; Editing by Sayantani Ghosh and Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Carlos Barria, Joe Biden's, Christopher Crandall, he'd, He'd, Gavin Newsom, Biden, China's Xi, Paul Boden, " Boden, Tesla, Elon Musk, Trevor Chandler, I’ve, Peter Henderson, Anna Tong, Sayantani Ghosh, Stephen Coates Organizations: REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Economic Cooperation, United Nations, Police, APEC, Western Regional Advocacy, San, Fox News, Twitter, Thomson Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Asia, San Francisco, California, Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles

These are then smuggled into the United States, the officials say. Last month, the United States imposed sanctions on 28 people and entities involved with the international proliferation of illicit drugs, including a large China-based network. Biden is also due to meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in San Francisco. In San Francisco, state and local officials have tried to clean up drugs from the city's streets, with limited success. "We know San Francisco - and cities across the United States - will benefit from more targeting of the trafficking and production of fentanyl worldwide," a spokesperson for Breed said in a statement.

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[1/2] Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023. Companies are increasingly using AI to make decisions including about pricing, which could lead to discriminatory outcomes, experts warned at the conference. “We should not underestimate how powerful these models are now and how rapidly they are going to get more powerful,” he said. Developing ever-more powerful AI will also risk eliminating jobs to a point where it may be impossible for humans to simply learn new skills and enter other industries. “Once that happens, I fear that it's not going to be so easy to go back to AI being a tool and AI as something that empowers people.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, ” Gary Marcus, Marcus, Marta Tellado, Anthony Aguirre, ”, –, Anna Tong, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters NEXT, New York University, Companies, Consumer, Life Institute, Reuters, reuters, Thomson Locations: New York, San Francisco

[1/3] A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 3 - ChatGPT maker OpenAI is expected to announce product enhancements that will make its AI models cheaper, with more functionality, in its first-ever developer conference on Monday. Generative AI can, using past data, create brand new content like fully formed text, images and software code. OpenAI is expected to announce updates focused on slashing costs for its developers, as well as new vision capabilities, Reuters previously reported. Cost-cutting addresses a major concern for partners whose spending on OpenAI's powerful models could pile up quickly as they try to build sustainable businesses by developing and selling AI software.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, Anna Tong, Krystal Hu, Richard Chang Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Reuters, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, City Hall, Francisco's, Silicon

The AI cloud-computing organization, called Voltage Park, has 24,000 Nvidia H100 chips, Voltage Park CEO Eric Park told Reuters in an interview. The operation plans to offer long- and short-term, low-cost AI computing to help alleviate the shortage of AI chips. Voltage Park plans to set up clusters of the Nvidia AI chips in Texas, Virginia and Washington. After the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT last year, demand for Nvidia's advanced AI silicon soared as businesses scrambled for chips to power their AI ambitions. Intel , Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) and a host of startups sell competing AI chips that are also in heavy demand.

Persons: Jed McCaleb, Eric Park, OpenAI's ChatGPT, McCaleb, Max A, Anna Tong, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: NVIDIA, Handout, REUTERS Acquire, Nvidia, Reuters, Intel, Devices, Navigation Fund, Navigation, Thomson Locations: Santa Clara , CA, Texas , Virginia, Washington, Gox, San Mateo , California, San Francisco

The company's revenue rose 13% to $56.5 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $54.52 billion, according to LSEG data. Revenue from Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud unit, which houses the Azure cloud-computing platform, grew to $24.3 billion, compared with analysts' estimate of $23.49 billion, LSEG data showed. Microsoft said on Tuesday that its fiscal first-quarter profit was $2.99 per share, above analyst estimates of $2.65 per share, according to LSEG data. Sales of its Windows operating system and other products in the segment grew to $13.7 billion, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $12.82 billion, according to data from LSEG. The segment containing the LinkedIn social network and its office productivity software grew to $18.6 billion, compared with analysts' consensus estimate of $18.20 billion, according to LSEG data.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Jesse Cohen, Jeremy Goldman, Anna Tong, Stephen Nellis, Yuvraj Malik, Devika Syamnath, Peter Henderson, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Microsoft, REUTERS, Investing.com, Alpha, Intelligence, Thomson Locations: Investing.com ., Redmond, Washington, San Francisco, Bengaluru

AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOct 19 - Artificial Intelligence startup Imbue said on Thursday it has secured an additional $12 million in follow-on funding to its Series B round, bringing its total raised to over $210 million in cash. In September, Imbue announced its Series B round of $200 million at a valuation of over $1 billion. Imbue is focused on creating a model for enabling so-called autonomous agents, AI systems which promise to perform more sophisticated personal and work tasks such as meeting scheduling or complex data analysis, without close supervision. The key to AI systems that can perform large-scale, real-world tasks is creating AI that has better reasoning capabilities, Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu said in an interview.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Eric Schmidt, Imbue, Kanjun Qiu, Qiu, Anna Tong, Richard Chang Organizations: REUTERS, Intelligence, Alexa Fund, Google, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken June 23, 2023. “It is clear over the last three years that transparency is on the decline while capability is going through the roof," said Stanford professor Percy Liang, a researcher behind the Foundation Model Transparency Index. Foundation models are AI systems trained on massive datasets that can perform a variety of tasks from writing to coding. The index’s authors hope that the report will encourage companies to increase their foundation model transparency, and also serve as a starting point for governments grappling with how to regulate the burgeoning field. The index is a project from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s Center for Research on Foundation Models.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Percy Liang, Amazon’s, OpenAI’s, Anna Tong, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, Stanford University, Google, Stanford, Microsoft, Stanford Institute for, for Research, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

CEO Sam Altman has made the acquisition of more AI chips a top priority for the company. Meta's (META.O) custom chip effort has been beset with issues, leading the company to scrap some of its AI chips, according to a Reuters report. OpenAI's main backer, Microsoft (MSFT.O), is also developing a custom AI chip that OpenAI is testing, The Information has reported. Demand for specialized AI chips has soared since the launch of ChatGPT last year. Nvidia is one of the few chipmakers that produces useful AI chips and dominates the market.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, Bernstein, Stacy Rasgon, Anna Tong, Stephen Nellis, Max A, Kenneth Li, Stephen Coates 私 Organizations: REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Reuters, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com, Annapurna Labs, Devices Locations: WASHINGTON, San Francisco

Announcements at Meta Connect, Meta's biggest event of the year, will indicate how Zuckerberg plans to navigate the shift this year of investor fervor to artificial intelligence from augmented and virtual reality technologies. Developers will be watching to assess what apps they might create for Meta's latest hardware devices, such as a new Quest virtual reality headset due out this fall. The Wall Street Journal initially reported the plan to announce generative AI chatbots at Connect. Just before the event, Meta said it was delivering on a plan announced early last year to roll out mobile and web versions of its flagship social VR platform Horizon Worlds. It also quietly added legs to its previously upper-body-only virtual reality avatars, as spotted by industry blog Upload VR.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Katie Paul, Anna Tong, Miral Organizations: Facebook, REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Meta, Street Journal, Thomson

As it seeks to gain ground in the fast-moving AI space, Google is rolling out Bard Extensions, enabling users to import their data from other Google products. For instance, users could ask Bard to search their files in Google Drive or provide a summary of the user’s Gmail inbox. For now, Bard users will only be able to pull information in from Google apps, but Google is working with external companies to connect their applications into Bard in the future, Google senior product director Jack Krawczyk said. Another new feature in Bard seeks to alleviate a nagging problem for generative AI: inaccurate responses known as “hallucinations”. Bard users will be able to see which parts of Bard’s answers differ from and agree with Google search results.

Persons: Bard, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Jack Krawczyk, it's, ” Krawczyk, Anna Tong, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Gmail, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

Sept 14 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI is opening an office in Dublin, the Microsoft (MSFT.O)-backed company announced Thursday. Its headquarters are in San Francisco and it announced it was opening a London office in June. The Dublin office will not be the company's European headquarters and there will not be an executive running the office, at least not yet, Kwon said. In opening a Dublin office, OpenAI is following a well-established American tech company strategy. Tax implications did not play a role in the decision, as OpenAI is not profitable, Kwon said.

Persons: OpenAI, Jason Kwon, Kwon, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anna Tong, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Microsoft, Reuters, Meta, Google, Thomson Locations: Dublin, San Francisco, Ireland, American, Europe

OpenAI and ChatGPT logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 3, 2023. Worldwide desktop and mobile website visits to the ChatGPT website decreased by 3.2% to 1.43 billion in August, following approximately 10% drops from each of the previous two months. U.S. ChatGPT traffic in August rose slightly, in concert with American schools being back in session. OpenAI also released the ChatGPT app on the iOS system in May, which could sap some traffic from its website. Besides ChatGPT, OpenAI makes money by selling access to its AI models for developers and enterprises directly and through a partnership with Microsoft, which invested over $10 billion into the company.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, ChatGPT, chatbot, David F, Carr, Similarweb, Bard chatbot, Bing, OpenAI, Anna Tong, Kenneth Li Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of Burning Man attendees readied to make their "exodus" on Monday as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of a party around its flaming effigy namesake. One person died at the event in the Black Rock Desert, authorities said on Sunday, providing few details. Every year Burning Man brings tens of thousands of people to the Nevada desert to dance, make art and enjoy being part of a self-sufficient, temporary community of like-minded spirits. The festival typically has a penultimate night send-off with the burning of a giant wooden effigy of a man, along with a fireworks show. Reporting by Anna Tong at Black Rock City and Rich McKay in Atlanta; Editing by Rosalba O'BrienOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Marc Chenard, revelers, Trevor Hughes, Brian Fraoli, Fraoli, Anna Tong, Rich McKay, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: National Weather Service, Center, Rock City, USA, Network, REUTERS, Acquire, Black Rock City, Thomson Locations: Nevada, Reno, College Park , Maryland, Rock, New York, San Francisco, Black, Atlanta

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 28 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI said on Monday it is releasing a version of ChatGPT targeted to large businesses, increasing the overlap in what OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft (MSFT.O) offer to customers. ChatGPT Enterprise offers more security, privacy and higher-speed access to OpenAI’s technology, the company said. With the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI hopes employers will feel comfortable embracing ChatGPT usage at work. Microsoft already offers businesses access to ChatGPT via its Azure OpenAI Service, though in order to use it businesses must be a customer of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. ChatGPT Enterprise subscribers need not subscribe to Azure, OpenAI said.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, Carlyle, Estee Lauder, Anna Tong, Chris Reese, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, ChatGPT Enterprise, Estee Lauder Companies, Reuters, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Thomson Locations: U.S, San Francisco

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