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Have Some Spare Cash? You’ll Need it for OpenAI’s New API
OpenAI researcher Hyung Won Chung. Image: OpenAI/YouTube Reasoning models, which dedicate time to thoroughly thinking through prompts, are at the front of the generative AI pack. OpenAI announced on March 20 o1-pro, a heavy-duty version of one of its reasoning models. Developers on any of OpenAI’s paid tiers can find o1-pro in the OpenAI API starting today. Those with higher…
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Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1, with only 32 billion parameters. According to a release from Alibaba, “the performance of QwQ-32B highlights the power of reinforcement learning (RL),…
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OpenAI’s GPT 4.5 spotted in Android beta, launch imminent
OpenAI’s newest model, GPT-4.5, is coming sooner than we expected. A new reference has been spotted on ChatGPT’s Android app that points to a model called “GPT-4.5 research preview.” At the moment, OpenAI offers several models, including GPT-4o, GPT-4o with scheduled tasks, o1, o3-mini, and o3-mini-high. This can be confusing due to the variety of choices. Current ChatGPT models and…
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OpenAI’s day in the sun is over
Not long ago the name OpenAI was an unfamiliar term, emblazoned on the homepage of a little-known chatbot soon to take the world by storm. Just over two years later, the firm is ubiquitous, a hallmark of the AI boom sweeping the tech space. The cracks are beginning to show, though. It had a good run – but I think…
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Perplexity AI’s Deep Research Tool Is Almost as Good as OpenAI’s, and It’s Free
After OpenAI, Perplexity AI is joining the “deep research” bandwagon. And it’s doing it in a fairly interesting way. Following in the footsteps of DeepSeek’s “reasoning” model, Perplexity is the first major AI provider that’s offering a Deep Research feature for free users, too. By comparison, OpenAI’s Deep Research feature is only available in the $200/month Pro subscription. Deep Research…
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Inside OpenAI’s $14 million Super Bowl debut
OpenAI just made its Super Bowl debut with a 60-second spot that positions AI alongside humanity’s greatest innovations. The commercial traces humanity’s technological evolution through a distinctive pointillism-inspired animation style, transforming abstract dots into iconic images of progress – from early tools like fire and the wheel to modern breakthroughs like DNA sequencing and space exploration. It culminates with modern…
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OpenAI’s o3-Mini Model Is Rolling Out
OpenAI is officially rolling out its latest model, o3-mini, starting today, Friday, Jan. 31. The company shared the news in a blog post on its website, just over a month after officially announcing the model during its “12 Days of OpenAI.” As with each refreshed generative AI model, o3-mini is an improvement over o1-mini—but not by as much as you…
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Microsoft makes OpenAI’s o1 model free for Copilot users – Computerworld
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman writes on LinkedIn that the company is now making OpenAI’s reasoning model o1 free to use for all users of Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot. Microsoft calls the functionality itself “Think Deeper.” The o1 model spends more time (about 30 seconds) considering the instructions it receives from several different angles and perspectives, then delivers a more comprehensive response…
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DeepSeek accused of training its models on OpenAI’s content
OpenAI has accused newcomer rival DeepSeek of training its chatbot on the firm’s proprietary models. There is some evidence that DeepSeek may have performed model distillation, OpenAI reportedly told the Financial Times, a technique whereby a smaller model is trained on a larger one to replicate certain responses for specific use cases. The US AI and Cryptocurrency Czar, David Sacks,…
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OpenAI’s new Operator agent can use the web for you – Computerworld
OpenAI is releasing a preview version of its first AI agent, Operator, which is specifically designed to use a web browser and can, for example, book a table at a restaurant for the user on its own. (An AI agent is a system that can be given a task and then work on it independently.) In the meantime, the user…
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