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Apr 01 from https://venturebeat.com/

OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI announced plans to release its first “open-weight” language model since 2019, marking a dramatic strategic shift for the company that built its business on proprietary AI systems. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, revealed the news in a post on X on...

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Mar 31 from https://venturebeat.com/

$40B into the furnace: As OpenAI adds a million users an hour, the race for enterprise AI dominance hits a new gear

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion — making it the largest private equity investment on record. The landmark...

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Mar 31 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/

Huge OpenAI funding round hinges on shedding nonprofit status

SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced a massive new funding round Monday, raising $40 billion in a deal that values the artificial intelligence company at $300 billion — but there’s a catch. OpenAI must shed its status as a nonprofit and transition itself into a fully for-profit company by the end of 2025 if it wants to unlock all of that money, a person familiar with the deal’s terms...

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Mar 21 from https://www.technologyreview.com/

OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being

The researchers found some intriguing differences between how men and women respond to using ChatGPT. After using the chatbot for four weeks, female study participants were slightly less likely to socialize with people than their male counterparts who did the same. Meanwhile, participants who interacted with ChatGPT’s voice mode in a gender that was not their own for their interactions...

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Mar 05 from https://www.technologyreview.com/

AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games

Palisade’s team found that OpenAI’s o1-preview attempted to hack 45 of its 122 games, while DeepSeek’s R1 model attempted to cheat in 11 of its 74 games. Ultimately, o1-preview managed to “win” seven times. The researchers say that DeepSeek’s rapid rise in popularity meant its R1 model was overloaded at the time of the experiments, meaning they only managed to get it to do the first steps of a...

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