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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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Everything you need to know about Operator, OpenAI’s new AI agent
OpenAI has unveiled its first AI agent — but “Operator” remains a research preview, rather than a final product. AI agents are believed by many to be the “killer app” for generative AI, allowing the much-hyped technology to take on practical workloads by automating processes and taking action, rather than only providing information. The end of last year saw a…
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OpenAI’s Project Stargate sparks reactions from Microsoft, Meta CEOs
“All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.” Rarely does a one-liner so perfectly capture the state of the moment. Here, you have Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saying he’s “not in the details” about Stargate, the supposedly multi-hundred-billion AI infrastructure project driven by his marquee investment, OpenAI. Nadella not being read in on the nebulous details of Stargate…
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OpenAI’s Next Step Toward the ‘Agentic’ Future
With laptop and smartphone makers like Samsung spreading generative AI across all aspects of their devices, OpenAI is trying the same with an agentic tool announced on Jan. 23. The tool, called Operator, runs on the same basic technology as ChatGPT but resides within a proprietary web browser. This enables it to autonomously perform actions such as ordering groceries or…
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