OpenAI announced its first AI model on Thursday that can reason, or solve complex problems on its own without copying the reasoning patterns of its training data, code-named Strawberry. That evening, the ChatGPT maker’s CEO sat down with Oprah Winfrey in a special aired on ABC to discuss how he sees AI changing the world...
Is AI worth paying four times as much for a Canva subscription? Design software service Canva is increasing membership prices for users globally, with some U.S. users reporting on X that the cost of five-person team subscriptions has gone up from $120 per year to $500 per year. Canva reportedly told users in an email...
As AI technology and programs like ChatGPT evolve, the way venture capitalists think about investing in startups is changing. Investor Leah Solivan, the founder of freelance marketplace TaskRabbit, which sold to Ikea in 2017, has been working as a venture capitalist for the last eight years. She currently works with startups building AI products as...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he “misspoke” at a Stanford University talk when he said that remote work was to blame for Google falling behind in the AI race. In a video posted on Tuesday to YouTube by Stanford’s School of Engineering, which has since been taken down at Schmidt’s request, professor Erik Brynjolfsson...
Microsoft’s Tuesday annual report slipped in a new detail — it briefly mentioned OpenAI as a competitor in AI, search, and news advertising, despite Microsoft’s $13 billion, years-long commitment to the ChatGPT maker. Microsoft is OpenAI’s largest investor. Microsoft’s previous annual report only mentioned OpenAI as a partner, not a competitor. The 2023 report stated...
After a one-month delay, OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a human voice. ChatGPT, which takes a written prompt and churns out an answer based on what it knows from its training data, was previously limited to typed answers. As of Tuesday, a limited group of paying ChatGPT Plus subscribers now have access to another dimension of...
On Monday, Apple offered a first look into Apple Intelligence, its highly anticipated AI designed for devices like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Developers registered with Apple’s $99 per-year membership now have access to iOS 18.1 beta and can preview some of the AI features Apple promised in June. According to CNBC, Monday’s preview includes...
In order to write, lead advertising campaigns, and power side hustles AI needs training material. ChatGPT needed about 300 billion words to get off the ground and continues to train itself based on how users interact with it. However, human beings aren’t being credited or compensated for creating the content that AI is eating up....
The New York Times sued OpenAI in December for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI giant used millions of its articles to train ChatGPT. Now OpenAI is asking for proof that NYT articles are actually original — and the NYT is calling the request “irrelevant, improper, and harassing.” OpenAI lawyers filed the request in New...
Apple revealed a new partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI at its WWDC event earlier this week that brings ChatGPT to iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Now, new details have emerged about the deal’s financial aspects — and it appears Apple isn’t paying OpenAI to use its technology. Apple announced that new, free AI capabilities were on...