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☆ OpenAI is reportedly struggling to improve its next big AI model. It's a warning for the entire AI industry.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It reignites a debate about the feasibility of developing increasingly advanced models and AI scaling laws — the theoretical rules about how the models improve. It remains to be seen how smart an AI model can get when it has that much capital thrown at it. There could also be strategies to make AI models smarter by enhancing the inference portion of development. The model OpenAI released in September — called OpenAI o1 — focused more on inference improvements. Still, it's clear that, like Altman, much of the industry remains firm in its conviction that scaling laws are the driver of AI performance.

Persons: OpenAI's, It's, —, Sam Altman, Fabrice Beaulieu, Altman, OpenAI, Andrew Caballero, Reynolds, Ion Stoica, Gary Marcus, Anthropic, Marcus, Claude, Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Kevin Scott, we're, Scott, they've Organizations: Service, OpenAI's, Orion, Business, Getty, Companies, New York University, Reuters, Sequoia, o1 Locations: GPT, Silicon Valley, AFP

☆ Sam Altman explains OpenAI's shift from open to closed AI models
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

CEO Sam Altman explained the company's shift to closed AI models in a Reddit AMA on Thursday. AdvertisementWhy doesn't OpenAI open-source the AI models behind ChatGPT if the company is called OpenAI? Altman responded that open source "plays an important role in the ecosystem and there are great open source models in the world." The comments from Altman follow a year in which OpenAI has received criticism for no longer open-sourcing its AI models. "There is no single open source AI definition, and defining it is a challenge because previous open source definitions do not encompass the complexities of today's rapidly advancing AI models," the spokesperson said.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, —, Altman, Elon Musk, ChatGPT, Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's GPT Organizations: Service, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, OSI

☆ OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

ChatGPT search offers up-to-the-minute sports scores, stock quotes, news, weather and more, powered by real-time web search and partnerships with news and data providers, according to the company. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards OpenAI's ChatGPT search OpenAIThe move also positions OpenAI as more of a competitor to Microsoft and its businesses. ChatGPT will "automatically search the web based on what you ask," according to an OpenAI blog post. Users can manually click the web search icon within ChatGPT to search if they choose. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards OpenAI's ChatGPT search OpenAI

Persons: Sam Altman, Didem, Bing, OpenAI, Altman, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, Dotdash Meredith Organizations: Anadolu, Getty, Microsoft, Google, ChatGPT, Associated Press, Reuters, Hearst, Financial Times, News Corp, Vox Media Locations: ChatGPT, OpenAI

☆ Microsoft's GitHub expands beyond OpenAI, lets developers use AI models from Anthropic, Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft has a very expensive and very public relationship with artificial intelligence startup OpenAI. But one of Microsoft's most successful AI products, GitHub Copilot, is now going beyond OpenAI to give developers more choice in what models they want to use. Microsoft introduced GitHub Copilot in 2021, offering source code suggestions to software developers. Copilot relies on models from OpenAI, which has received billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft and has exploded in popularity since releasing ChatGPT in late 2022. At that point, it felt like "the right time" to add models from Anthropic and Google , Dohmke said.

Persons: Claude, Thomas Dohmke, They're, GitHub, Dohmke Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI's, o1, CNBC, Google

☆ The latest AI trend is asking ChatGPT to tell you something about yourself that you might not know
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

ChatGPT users are asking the AI to reveal any personal traits it's gleaned from their past conversations. The ChatGPT responses posted by people online revealed long, detailed analyses that pointed out traits from users' "thoughtful approach to conversations" or ability to "blend curiosity with analysis." AdvertisementSome ChatGPT users suggested follow-up questions for the AI that might result in a less complimentary response. One person on X suggested asking ChatGPT to give them "the real talk," and another on Reddit, for a similar prompt, suggested telling the bot to "play devil's advocate." The viral prompt suggests that many people are getting comfortable talking to AI and asking it personal questions.

Persons: —, Tom Morgan, Sam Altman, ChatGPT Organizations: Service

☆ 'Let chaos reign': AI inference costs are about to plummet
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

All kinds of startups are rushing into the AI inference market. AdvertisementJared Quincy Davis and his AI computing startup Foundry sell inference. And cost in inference computing is even more important than in training, Groq cofounder Jonathan Ross recently told BI. In other words, "it turns out, when you make inference cheaper, people decide to do a lot more inference," Davis said. He agrees the next few years will be wildly competitive for inference providers, but he believes the winners will be decided on merit.

Persons: —, Jared Quincy Davis, Davis, Jonathan Ross, Mitesh Agrawal, Agrawal, it's, Jensen Huang, Davis isn't, Intel Andy Grove, Sriram Viswanathan, Viswanathan, Hugh Langley Organizations: Service, Foundry, SambaNova Systems, Lambda, Nvidia, Microsoft, Business, o1, Intel, Celesta Capital

☆ OpenAI's AI-adjusted earnings numbers have echoes of Groupon and WeWork
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Is it OK for an AI company to exclude the cost of training its AI models when it reports earnings? Related storiesFor an AI company like OpenAI, training models will be an ongoing process. The world is constantly evolving, and new data is being generated, which will have to be incorporated into AI models' understanding. Let's call it "AI adjusted earnings" for an AI company. They are a private company," McKenna said.

Persons: we've, Francine McKenna, McKenna, OpenAI, It's, Groupon, WeWork Organizations: Google, Facebook, MarketWatch, Revenue, Big Tech, KPMG Consulting, SAP, Oracle, Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC Locations: It's

☆ The AI industry is facing an existential question. OpenAI's chief product officer says he's not worried.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI's chief product officer isn't worried that the rise of open-source will cause the second. In the first vision, AI startups are in a winner-takes-all race. AdvertisementOn Wednesday, OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil took to the stage, where Anyscale cofounder Robert Nishihara asked him what open-source models mean for OpenAI's business. These AI models, such as Meta's Llama offerings, are freely available for almost anyone to use, while OpenAI sells access to propriety, closed models. But if downloadable, open-source models pull all prices down to the "cost of production," then Andreessen's first vision — of "infinite profits" — starts to appear a little less likely.

Persons: Marc Andreessen, isn't, —, Andreessen, there's, Rice, OpenAI, Kevin Weil, Robert Nishihara, Weil, Mark, Zuckerberg Organizations: Service, Google, Ray Summit, Anyscale, Meta Locations: San Francisco

☆ Microsoft AI boss likens OpenAI partnership to a sibling rivalry
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But Microsoft is also reportedly building its own in-house AI model that could compete with OpenAI's. Microsoft is now developing its own in-house AI model, reportedly dubbed MAI-1, and OpenAI has launched GPT-4o and o1-preview. The two were briefly announced to "lead a new advanced AI research team," a group now known as Microsoft AI. Suleyman said the ties between Microsoft and OpenAI aren't unique, but rather similar to other company relationships across the industry. "I mean, we have a deep relationship with Amazon, believe it or not, on a lot of fronts."

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, —, Kara Swisher, Suleyman, OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Altman, Brockman, Karén Simonyan Organizations: Microsoft, Service, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI

☆ Marc Andreessen hits on the existential question facing the AI industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

There are two competing visions for the future of the AI business, according to Marc Andreessen. Instead, it's one of the most fundamental (and arguably surreal) questions facing the AI industry today, according to legendary investor Marc Andreessen. In the first vision, AI startups are in a winner-takes-all race. These AI models, such as Meta's Llama offerings, are freely available for almost anyone to use, while OpenAI sells access to propriety, closed models. But if downloadable, open-source models pull all prices down to the "cost of production," then Andreessen's first vision — of "infinite profits" — starts to appear a little less likely.

☆ Here's what OpenAI employees are saying about the company's future
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI plans to restructure into a for-profit company, moving away from nonprofit board oversight. Here's what some former and current employees are saying about the latest changes. AdvertisementAfter a whirlwind week for OpenAI, former and current employees are weighing in on the company's path forward. Gretchen Krueger, a former policy researcher at OpenAI, said the company's nonprofit governance structure and cap on profits were part of the reason she joined in 2019 — the year that OpenAI added a for-profit arm. "Those of us at @OpenAI working on o1 find it strange to hear outsiders claim that OpenAI has deprioritized research.

Persons: —, Mira Murati, Barret Zoph, Bob McGrew, Sam Altman, OpenAI, hasn't, Altman, OpenAI's, Jan Leike, Gretchen Krueger, Noam Brown, Brown, Mark Chen, I've, it's Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Italian Tech, Outsiders, o1, Business Locations: Murati

☆ Anthropic's comms chief mocks OpenAI after cofounder's bizarre tweet about jacuzzis and the Middle Ages
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Anthropic executive jumped at the opportunity to mock OpenAI in response. AdvertisementTech rivalries are always a hot topic on X, and on Friday, an Anthropic executive couldn't help but take a jab at OpenAI. OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba took to X on Friday to wax poetic about the latest high-profile departures. He likened the exits of Murati, Zoph, and McGrew to children dying in the Middle Ages. Just hours later she wrote on X, "Happy to report that Anthropic's co-founders all still merrily work at the company.

Persons: OpenAI, Mira Murati, Bob McGrew, —, Sam Altman, Altman, Barret Zoph, Wojciech Zaremba, Zaremba, McGrew, Sasha de Marigny, Anthropic, Anthropic's, Anthropic’s, — Sasha de Marigny, John Schulman Organizations: Service, OpenAI Locations: Murati

☆ Why Sam Altman doesn't think AI will replace writers
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Open AI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn't see AI replacing human writers. AI's use in writing has grown since ChatGPT's launch, with some authors even using AI to write and illustrate books. AdvertisementWhile multiple jobs are seemingly at risk of one day being replaced by AI, Sam Altman doesn't believe writers are one of them. One freelance writer previously told BI that they lost a job after their client began using AI to replace his services. But Altman remains confident that human writers will maintain an advantage over AI — original idea generation.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, —, Sam Altman doesn't, podcaster David Perell, Tim Boucher, Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI Organizations: Service, o1, GPT

☆ Nvidia's days of absolute dominance in AI could be numbered because of this key performance benchmark
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Liang told Business Insider he expects 90% of AI computing workloads will be in inference in the not-too-distant future. AdvertisementThat's why several startups are charging aggressively into the inference market — emphasizing where they might outperform the goliath in the space. Speed is an important factor when multiple AI models talk to each other and waiting for an answer can dampen the magic of generative AI. The number of tokens per second that can be consumed (when a prompt goes in) and generated (when a response comes out) is a common metric for AI computing speed. AdvertisementCerebras's AI chip is roughly size of a dinner plate.

Persons: —, Rodrigo Liang, Colleen Kress, workloads, Liang, Andrew Feldman, Bernstein, Colette Kress, Kress, Nvidia's, SambaNova, Anthropic's Claude, Nvidia isn't, Jensen, Dylan Patel, Patel Organizations: Service, Business, SambaNova Systems, Nvidia, ARM, AMD, o1, BI Locations: Artificialanalysis.ai, TCO

☆ The OpenAI talent exodus has become the joke of the moment in tech world
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Sarah Gray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI in May and launched his own AI startup focused on safety. Of the 11 cofounders of OpenAI from 2015, only Altman, Brockman (who, again, is on leave), and Wojciech Zaremba remain. Daniel Kokotajlo and William Saunders, who previously worked on OpenAI's governance and safety teams, respectively, left OpenAI in the first half of 2023. AdvertisementAdditionally, OpenAI cofounder John Schulman left in August to join OpenAI rival Anthropic — where Leike also landed. On Wednesday, Meta announced that Meta AI is on track to be "the most used AI assistant in the world."

Persons: —, Mira Murati, Sam Altman, There's, OpenAI, Airbnb, KugtVv9o6N, Matt Turck, Altman, Murati, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Sutskever, Sam, Madeline, PnRxZSbGgx — sophie, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Sarah Friar, Jakub Pachocki, Brad Lightcap, Kevin Weil, Wojciech Zaremba, Elon Musk, Musk, Jan Leike, Daniel Kokotajlo, William Saunders, John Schulman, Anthropic, Leike, Andrej Karpathy, Kokotajlo, Fortune Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Business, Wired, OpenAI, —, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Reuters Locations: OpenAI, Slack, —

☆ Mira Murati, OpenAI’s technology chief, becomes the latest exec to leave the company
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati — who has been instrumental in the development of ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence image generator Dall-E — said Wednesday she is leaving the company. “My six-and-a-half years with the OpenAI team have been an extraordinary privilege,” Murati said in a note to the OpenAI team, which she posted to X. Fellow OpenAI co-founder John Schulman exited in August to join rival Anthropic. Murati joined OpenAI’s leadership team in 2018 after working at augmented reality company Ultraleap (then called Leap Motion) and Tesla. During the debacle, Murati joined more than 500 fellow OpenAI employees in threatening to quit if Altman was not brought back to the company.

Persons: Mira Murati —, —, “, ” Murati, “ There’s, shakeup, OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Greg Brockman, Murati, Sam Altman, Altman, Mira, ”, ” Altman Organizations: New, New York CNN, OpenAI, Bloomberg, OpenAI’s, Tesla, o1 Locations: New York, Silicon Valley

☆ An OpenAI investor just published more than 10,300 words about the future of AI. We asked ChatGPT if it agreed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read preview69-year-old Vinod Khosla shared some bold predictions about the future of AI in a more than 10,300-word essay on Friday. The venture capitalist, whose firm Khosla Ventures invested $50 million into OpenAI in 2019, holds highly optimistic views about the future of AI. OpenAI's GPT O1 wasn't fully convincedInterestingly enough, OpenAI's most advanced AI yet didn't echo all of Khosla's predictions. It agreed with some, like AI's transformative potential in providing economic and societal benefits, democratizing access to healthcare and education, and enhancing creativity. AdvertisementBut it labeled some of Khosla's predictions about AI "overly optimistic," like AI performing 80% of tasks in 80% of jobs in the next 25 years.

Persons: —, Vinod Khosla, Khosla, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Vinod Khosla's Organizations: Service, Khosla Ventures, Business, O1 Locations: OpenAI

☆ AI 'godfather' says OpenAI's new model may be able to deceive and needs 'much stronger safety tests'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI expert, told BI that a deceptive AI could be dangerous. Bengio said that stronger safety tests and regulatory oversight are needed for advanced AI models. AdvertisementOpenAI's new o1 model is better at scheming — and that makes the "godfather" of AI nervous. "In general, the ability to deceive is very dangerous, and we should have much stronger safety tests to evaluate that risk and its consequences in o1's case," Bengio wrote in the statement. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: —, Yoshua, Bengio Organizations: Service, University of Montreal, o1, Business Locations: Canadian

☆ Don't ask OpenAI's new model how it 'thinks' unless you want to risk a ban
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewOpenAI doesn't want you to know how its new AI model is thinking. "Given this, we are resetting the counter back to 1 and naming this series OpenAI o1," OpenAI said. The o1 model is able to reason more like humans, in part because of its prompting technique known as "chain of thought." AdvertisementWhen ChatGPT users ask the o1 model a question, they have the option to see a filtered interpretation of this chain of thought process. OpenAI acknowledged in the post that the decision to hide the o1 thought process from consumers has "disadvantages."

Persons: —, OpenAI Organizations: Service, o1, Business, Wired

☆ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is ready to move on from Sam Altman's ousting drama
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft's CEO said Sam Altman's brief ousting from OpenAI feels like a "long-lost memory." Microsoft is building its own AI model, MAI-1, while OpenAI recently unveiled its latest model, o1. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementSam Altman's sudden ousting from OpenAI stunned the tech industry only last November, but Microsoft's CEO has already moved on from the drama. During the 2024 Fast Company Innovation Panel, Satya Nadella said that Altman's brief expulsion feels like "a long-lost memory."

Persons: Sam Altman's, OpenAI, —, Satya Nadella, Altman Organizations: Microsoft, MAI, Service Locations: OpenAI

☆ Sam Altman is leaving a key OpenAI board. His departure should satisfy some big critics.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewOpenAI just announced the members of its revamped Safety and Security Committee, and CEO Sam Altman is not on the list. When the group was announced, Altman, Taylor, and five OpenAI technical and policy experts were named to the committee, alongside the independent board members. AdvertisementThe safety committee will "exercise oversight over model launches, including having the authority to delay a release until safety concerns are addressed," the blog post said. OpenAI's troublesLast month, the company battled to stop an AI safety bill in California, saying it would stifle progress and drive companies out of the state. Weeks before that, nine current and former OpenAI employees signed an open letter pointing out the risks of generative AI.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Bret Taylor, OpenAI's, Altman, Taylor, Zico Kolter, Adam D'Angelo, Paul Nakasone, Nicole Seligman, William Saunders, Daniel Kokotajlo, Weeks Organizations: Service, Security Committee, Business, Carnegie Mellon University, US Army, Sony Corporation, o1, OpenAI, Securities and Exchange Commission Locations: California, NDAs

☆ OpenAI announces new independent board oversight committee focused on safety
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI on Monday said its Safety and Security Committee, which the company introduced in May as it dealt with controversy over security processes, will become an independent board oversight committee. Other members include Adam D'Angelo, an OpenAI board member and co-founder of Quora, former NSA chief and board member Paul Nakasone, and Nicole Seligman, former executive vice president at Sony. The committee will oversee "the safety and security processes guiding OpenAI's model deployment and development," the company said. The company said the committee "reviewed the safety and security criteria that OpenAI used to assess OpenAI o1's fitness for launch," as well as safety evaluation results. Leike wrote in a post on X that OpenAI's "safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products."

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Zico Kolter, Adam D'Angelo, Quora, Paul Nakasone, Nicole Seligman, it's, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Leike Organizations: Microsoft, Security Committee, Carnegie Mellon University's, NSA, Sony, Tiger Global, Nvidia, Apple, OpenAI o1, Democratic Locations: Redmond , Washington, OpenAI

☆ Sam Altman may be in his villain era, but no one seems to care
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As one VC partner told Business Insider at the time: "Sam is bigger than Taylor Swift." But the bigger you are, the faster the fall, and a few months later, things began to unravel. Others simply said Altman was overhyped, that he didn't have all the answers that the public and investors seemed to expect of him. Thanks to good old-fashioned capitalism, Altman and OpenAI have enjoyed business win after win and held their positions as the leaders in the aggressive AI race. "I thought Sam Altman did a really good job in the special," she told The Washington Post in a discussion about her TV program on artificial intelligence.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Taylor Swift, Altman, Oscar, Scarlett Johansson, Johansson, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Leike, Anthropic —, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Siri, Goldman Sachs, OpenAI fanboys, Wharton, Ethan Mollick, Anderson Cooper, Josh Kushner —, Oprah Winfrey Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Business, —, Leike, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, tech's, o1, Washington Locations: OpenAI —, Valley

☆ We asked OpenAI's new o1 model what it thought about its own name. It didn't hold back.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI has introduced o1, a new model with "enhanced reasoning capabilities." BI tested the new model to see if it could reason its way to a better brand name. Even CEO Sam Altman has admitted OpenAI needs better product names. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementOpenAI needs better product names.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, —, Trevor Noah's Organizations: BI, Service, OpenAI o1, Business

OpenAI stormed onto the scene with ChatGPT and upended the tech world in less than two years. But over the next few months, the artificial intelligence darling will face some of its biggest tests yet. A highly anticipated partnership with Apple will supercharge its reach, putting it in front of millions of users who may have never interacted with generative AI before. A massive valuation that is growing at breakneck pace has set the stakes higher than ever, especially with interest from investors including Apple and Nvidia . Watch this video to learn more.

Persons: OpenAI, ChatGPT, OpenAI's, Sam Altman Organizations: Apple, Nvidia, o1

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