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OpenAI investors are pushing to bring back Sam Altman as CEO one day after he was ousted by the board, according to people familiar with the matter. Sequoia Capital has also been in contact with Altman, a person familiar with knowledge of the matter told CNBC. Sequoia also informed Microsoft that it would back efforts to bring back Altman and Brockman, the person said. The Verge first reported on the talks to bring back Altman. In addition to ousting Altman, the company removed Brockman, the chairman, from his board leadership position but said he would remain as president.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, it's, Sequoia, Brockman, Altman didn't, Mira Murati Organizations: Microsoft, Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, CNBC, Sequoia Locations: Silicon Valley, OpenAI

☆ Ousted OpenAI CEO Altman welcome in France, minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 17, 2023. Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is welcome in France, France's digital minister said in a statement on X, a day after the board of the company behind ChatGPT fired Altman without giving a reason. "Sam Altman, his team and their talents are welcome in France if they want to," Digital Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in a statement on X on Saturday. It uses generative AI meaning it can learn from past data to create new content including text, images and computer code. In a video message to tech leaders on Friday, Macron said generative AI has huge potential and that France plans a conference about AI in Paris next year.

Persons: Sam Altman, ChatGPT, Altman, Jean, Noel Barrot, Emmanuel Macron, OpenAI, Macron, Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saade, Eric Schmidt Organizations: OpenAI, Tech, Conference, Digital, Microsoft, French CMA, CMA, U.S Locations: Laguna Beach , California, France, Europe, Paris, French

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

☆ It was the most significant week in AI since the launch of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Elon Musk announced a sarcastic AI ChatGPT rival called Grok coming to his platform, X, formerly known as Twitter. The company unveiled a series of AI tool updates, including the ability for developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPTs. Humane’s Ai PinHumane introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin From HumaneHumane, a startup founded by former Apple employees, introduced its first AI wearable device called the Ai Pin, a small blinking gadget that attaches to clothing. The Ai pin, which runs on a Snapdragon processor and boasts a Qualcomm AI engine, is packed with depth and motion sensors, features an ultra-wide camera and a laser ink display. The Ai Pin, which starts at $699, will go on sale in the US on Thursday, November 16.

Persons: OpenAI, Elon Musk, ”, Reece Hayden, Hayden, ” Hayden, Here’s, Sam Altman, Altman, Ai, Arun Chandrasekaran, “, Jaap Arriens, xAI, Douglas Adams, Elon, Grok, Musk, Chandrasekaran, Anna Coobin Organizations: CNN, OpenAI, ABI Research, Fortune, Apple, Qualcomm, Gartner, Twitter, Galaxy, Reuters, Amazon, YouTube Locations: Warsaw, Poland, British

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 9 (Reuters) - OpenAI's announcement on artificial intelligence "apps" do not spell the death knell for nascent startups building AI products, two OpenAI investors said at a Reuters NEXT conference on Thursday. Investors are still hunting for new AI products that could help consumers interact better with the technology and address deep tech issues such as brain computer interface, they said. We're in an intermediary step in a decades-long revolution," Konstantine Buhler, partner at Sequoia Capital, told the conference. Avery Klemmer, investor at Thrive Capital, which recently increased its investment in OpenAI, also said she sees opportunities for the rise of consumer applications beside ChatGPT. Despite recent frenzied investments into the technology by companies and venture capital firms, analysts and investors say development of AI products is still in the early stages.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Konstantine Buhler, Avery Klemmer, ChatGPT, Klemmer, Jill Chase, Krystal Hu, Sayantani Ghosh, Deepa Babington Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters NEXT, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, New York

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 9 (Reuters) - OpenAI's announcement on artificial intelligence "apps" do not spell the death knell for nascent startups building AI products, two OpenAI investors said at a Reuters NEXT conference on Thursday. Investors are still hunting for new AI products that could help consumers interact better with the technology and address deep tech issues such as brain computer interface, they said. We're in an intermediary step in a decades-long revolution," Konstantine Buhler, partner at Sequoia Capital, told the conference. Avery Klemmer, partner at Thrive Capital, which recently increased its investment in OpenAI, also said she sees opportunities for the rise of consumer applications beside ChatGPT. Despite recent frenzied investments into the technology by companies and venture capital firms, analysts and investors say development of AI products is still in the early stages.

☆ ChatGPT outage could stem from targeted server attack, OpenAI says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Samantha Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —OpenAI said recent outages of its viral ChatGPT chatbot could be caused by targeted attacks on its servers. Users on Wednesday were unable to access all of OpenAI’s tools and services and received a message that the platform was at capacity. The outage comes three days after OpenAI hosted its first developer conference, held in San Francisco. CEO Sam Altman said 2 million developers now use the platform, and about 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using the tools internally. At the event, the company unveiled a series of artificial intelligence tool updates, including the ability for developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT.

Persons: CNN — OpenAI, ” OpenAI, OpenAI, Sam Altman Organizations: CNN, Fortune Locations: San Francisco

☆ Capgemini Q3 revenue falls after decline in North America
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The Capgemini logo is seen at the company's office in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France, August 3, 2021. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 7 (Reuters) - French IT consulting group Capgemini (CAPP.PA) on Tuesday posted a 1.3% fall in third-quarter revenue at current exchange rates, including 4% fall in North America, its second-biggest market. The firm said its investment of 2 billion euros in AI was progressing "as planned" with the aim of doubling the workforce involved to 60,000 people over the three years. The Paris-based group's revenue was 5.48 billion euros ($5.87 billion) in the third quarter, down from 5.55 billion a year earlier, while its bookings rose 1% to 5.28 billion euros. ($1 = 0.9341 euros)Reporting by Lina Golovnya and Stéphanie Hamel in Gdansk; editing by Kim Coghill and Jason NeelyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Benoit Tessier, Aiman Ezzat, chatbot, Capgemini, Lina Golovnya, Stéphanie, Kim Coghill, Jason Neely Organizations: REUTERS, French IT, Alstom, Thomson Locations: Issy, Paris, France, French, North America, United States, Europe, Gdansk

☆ Exclusive: Meta bars political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration taken September 28, 2023. Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the biggest digital advertising company, announced the launch of similar image-customizing generative AI ads tools last week. TikTok and Snapchat owner Snap (SNAP.N) both bar political ads, while X, previously known as Twitter, has not rolled out any generative AI advertising tools. Meta's top policy executive, Nick Clegg, said last month that the use of generative AI in political advertising was "clearly an area where we need to update our rules." Earlier, Clegg told Reuters that Meta was blocking its user-facing Meta AI virtual assistant from creating photo-realistic images of public figures.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Meta, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Joe Biden, Katie Paul, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Meta, Housing, Employment, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Services, Google, Reuters, Thomson Locations: New York

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets extend winning streaks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Shreyashi Sanyal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

(Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. The tech-heavy index rose for seven straight days, while the Dow and S&P 500 rose for six straight days for the first time since July and June, respectively. Now, CNBC Pro deep dives into which winning names investors should look at that could be poised to lead any rally in the coming week. These include stocks in the S&P 500 that are up 10% or more off of their 52-week lows and have gained 10% or more in the past month.

Persons: Roy Rochlin, Jane, OpenAI, Janet Yellen, Lifeng, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping Organizations: NEW, Trump, Federal, CNBC, Dow Jones, Dow, Bora, Microsoft, U.S . Treasury, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC Locations: Downtown Manhattan, New York City, U.S, San Francisco

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Markets are on a hot streak
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Shreyashi Sanyal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. China imports surpriseChina's imports unexpectedly rose in October from a year ago, but exports recorded a worse-than-expected drop. Data showed imports rose by 3% in U.S. dollar terms for the month, above a Reuters' forecast for a 4.8% drop. [PRO] Growth stocks that are set for bigger leapsHigher-for-longer interest rates are bad for growth stocks but, investor hopes were reignited after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged for the second consecutive meeting.

Persons: Jane, OpenAI Organizations: CNBC, Dow Jones, Dow, Reserve Bank of Australia, Bora, Microsoft, U.S . Federal Reserve, CNBC Pro Locations: U.S, Asia, South, China

☆ Microsoft closes at all-time high on fresh OpenAI-related optimism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft ended Tuesday's trading session at a record high of $360.53, following fresh optimism about growth from a key partner in artificial intelligence. The major U.S. indices all posted gains for the day, with the S&P 500 notching its seventh-consecutive rise, while Microsoft delivered its eighth. At an event in San Francisco on Monday, Microsoft's strategic AI partner, OpenAI, announced a slew of updates, including price cuts and plans to allow people to make custom versions of the ChatGPT chatbot. Oppenheimer analysts, with the equivalent of a buy rating, said OpenAI's price updates confirm OpenAI's status as the category leader. Microsoft said in a regulatory filing in October that OpenAI is its "strategic partner" on AI.

Persons: OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Karl Keirstead, Oppenheimer, it's Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI's, Windows, UBS, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Locations: U.S, San Francisco, OpenAI

☆ Exclusive: Meta to bar political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration taken September 28, 2023. Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the biggest digital advertising company, announced the launch of similar image-customizing generative AI ads tools last week. Snapchat owner Snap (SNAP.N) and TikTok both bar political ads, while X, previously known as Twitter, has not rolled out any generative AI advertising tools. Meta's top policy executive, Nick Clegg, said last month that the use of generative AI in political advertising was "clearly an area where we need to update our rules." Earlier, Clegg told Reuters that Meta was blocking its user-facing Meta AI virtual assistant from creating photo-realistic images of public figures.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Meta, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Joe Biden, Katie Paul, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Meta, Google, Reuters, San, Thomson Locations: United Kingdom, San Francisco

☆ Microsoft-backed OpenAI announces GPT-4 Turbo, its most powerful AI yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

ChatGPT, which broke records as the fastest-growing consumer app in history months after its launch, now has about 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI said Monday. And when it comes to GPT-5, Altman told reporters, "We want to do it, but we don't have a timeline." GPT-4 Turbo can. While earlier versions limited you to about 3,000 words, the GPT-4 Turbo accepts inputs of up to 300 pages in length. OpenAI said GPT-4 Turbo is available in preview for developers now and will be released to all in the coming weeks.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a surprise appearance at OpenAI's developer conference on Monday with a message: Come build with us. 1 is to build the best system, so that you can build the best models and then make that all available to developers," Nadella told OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on stage at DevDay in San Francisco. Azure has become Microsoft's key growth engine in recent years and has helped revive the company's brand among developers. Microsoft boasts an exclusive license on OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model that can generate human-like prose in response to a few words of text. Developers who are building on top of OpenAI can look to the Azure Marketplace to "get to market rapidly," Nadella said.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella, Sam Altman, OpenAI, ChatGPT, It's, Altman Organizations: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI's, Street, Windows Locations: DevDay, San Francisco

☆ 'Bracing for the impact': Founders who built on ChatGPT find out the hard way Big Tech can torpedo their work
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One founder building ChatGPT add-ons says he's "bracing" for other changes from OpenAI. Little-guy developers building complementary services to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot have just found this out the hard way. As several techies noticed, that's pretty much killed off a bunch of startups that build "ChatGPT wrapper" apps that did precisely that. Other wrapper apps can create ad copy, sales materials, and social media posts. As one anonymous venture capitalist, who has backed a ChatGPT wrapper startup put it to Insider: "Just wait until ChatGPT has an outage and see which emperors have no clothes."

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Kevin Dietsch, Dominik Lohle, Joel Liu, Liu, Claude, Damon Chen, PDF.ai, h9KnROaWtI — Damon Chen, Nvidia's, Jin Fan, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, Google, Boston, Microsoft

☆ Elon Musk says there's a 'not zero' chance of AI being a force for bad
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk thinks AI would most likely be a force for good — but there's a 20% chance the tech could go bad. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk thinks AI can mostly do positive things for humankind — but he is also saying there's a non-zero chance of the tech being a force for bad. "AI will be a force for good most likely," Musk said in a discussion with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday. Musk — the wealthiest person on the planet with an estimated fortune of $208 billion — thinks AI is likely to be 80% good and 20% bad. The billionaire, who cofounded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT chatbot, launched xAI, a new AI company, in July.

Persons: Elon Musk, Sunak, —, Elon, Musk, Rishi Sunak, OpenAI, ChatGPT chatbot Organizations: Service, British, SpaceX

☆ OpenAI just taught little-guy developers an ugly lesson
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Microsoft's AI boost helped cloud business outpace rivals Amazon and Google in latest quarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

That's faster than Google Cloud's 22% growth and more than double the pace of expansion at Amazon Web Services, which reported 12% growth. "Today more than half of all funded generative AI startups are Google cloud customers," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company's earnings call Tuesday. "Our generative AI business is growing very, very quickly," Jassy said. Jassy said companies including Adidas, Booking.com , Merck and United Airlines are building generative AI apps in AWS. Still, Amazon was behind Microsoft in releasing a tool for deploying generative AI.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Mark Moerdler, Sundar Pichai, Andy Jassy, Jassy, Brian Olsavsky, Jefferies, Brent Thill Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Bernstein Research, Adidas, Booking.com, Merck, United Airlines, OpenAI Service, Oracle, Skanska, Starbucks, Amazon Locations: OpenAI, Maersk

☆ Alphabet to report third-quarter earnings after the bell
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Alphabet is set to report third-quarter earnings after the bell Tuesday. During the third quarter, Google made focused layoffs in various business organizations within the company. In the latest quarter, Google reshuffled its smart assistant that included layoffs as part of an effort to "supercharge" products with AI. Earlier this month, product managers and designers for Google's ChatGPT competitor Bard were reportedly skeptical about the tool's helpfulness. Along with the changes in its business, Google has seen a dramatic shake-up in its upper ranks.

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☆ Meta's unique approach to developing AI puzzles Wall Street, but techies love it
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +18 min

If the world's leading AI researchers use Llama, Meta could have an easier time hiring skilled technologists who understand the company's approach to development. Spisak helped oversee PyTorch and other open source AI projects when he worked at Meta from 2018 until January 2023. Although a number of open source LLMs are available, Lambert said Llama 2 is by far the most popular. "Facebook was not and that's sort of how they move forward and democratizing this, giving sort of broad access to open source. However, open source doesn't always win, and Padval acknowledged that "in this case, I don't know how it's going to evolve."

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☆ China proposes blacklist of training data for generative AI models
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Acquire Licensing RightsBEIJING, Oct 12 (Reuters) - China has published proposed security requirements for firms offering services powered by generative artificial intelligence, including a blacklist of sources that cannot be used to train AI models. Generative AI, popularised by the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, learns how to take actions from past data, and creates new content like text or images based on that training. The committee proposes conducting a security assessment of each body of content used to train public-facing generative AI models, with those containing "more than 5% of illegal and harmful information" to be blacklisted. The draft rules also state that information censored on the Chinese internet should not be used to train models. The draft security requirements published on Wednesday require organisations training these AI models to seek the consent of individuals whose personal information, including biometric data, is used for training purposes.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI's, Eduardo Baptista, Jane Merriman, Jan Harvey Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, National Information Security, Cyberspace Administration of China, CAC, Ministry of Industry, Information Technology, Baidu, HK, U.S, Thomson Locations: Rights BEIJING, China

☆ AMD's stock pops after Microsoft tech chief touts chipmaker's AI products
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of AMD rose almost 5% Thursday, a day after Microsoft's technology chief said the chipmaker is bolstering its position in artificial intelligence, where Nvidia dominates. For years, Microsoft has offered some AMD GPUs to its Azure cloud customers, in addition to powering some of its computers and its Xbox consoles with AMD chips. In May, AMD said Microsoft had started offering a cloud networking service to clients, drawing on the chipmaker's Pensando products. Bloomberg reported in May that AMD was working with Microsoft on a custom AI chip, but Scott declined to say if that's actually happening. Microsoft's cloud rivals Amazon and Google have developed homegrown silicon.

Persons: chatbot, Kevin Scott, Nilay Patel, Scott, Lisa Su, Bryn Organizations: AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Google Locations: Dana Point , California

☆ Microsoft technology chief says supply of Nvidia's AI chips is improving
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Demand was far exceeding the supply of GPU capacity that the whole ecosystem could produce," Scott told the Verge's Nilay Patel. Microsoft, like Google and other tech companies, has been quickly adding generative AI to its own products and selling the technology's capabilities to clients. Training and deploying the underlying AI models has mainly relied on Nvidia's GPUs, creating scarcity of supply. Nvidia expects to increase supply each quarter through next year, finance chief Colette Kress told analysts on last month's earnings call. Traffic to ChatGPT has declined month over month for three consecutive months, Similarweb said in a blog post.

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