OpenAI News & Discussions

[firestar464]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/former- ... ge-26.html

The toxicity of the debate just went up

[Cyber_Rebel]

OpenAI CFO Thinks Business Users Will Pay Thousands Monthly for AI Tools

(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said it’s reasonable to eventually charge business users thousands of dollars a month for its artificial intelligence software to better reflect the value the technology provides to companies.

“I want the door open to everything,” Friar said in an interview, when asked about a recent report that the company has discussed a $2,000 monthly subscription for its AI products. “If it’s helping me move about the world with literally a Ph.D.-level assistant for anything that I’m doing, there are certainly cases where that would make all the sense in the world.

Source: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/te ... -ai-tools/

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While I know this directly relates to business or high intelligence work, if she's referring to the value thereof, it would have to be nothing short of an actual AGI agent to justify the price of monthly rent. If the value generates wealth for individuals like what Yuli suggested in his predictions for 2025 post, then that as well. Would basically have to from the way replacement cost is being described.

[spryfusion]

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[Vakanai]

I'm not surprised. Despite the name hasn't OpenAI been very against open source AI?
They give off that cyberpunk vibe, you know evil big corpo making high tech but low life...
Then again they still seem less evil leaning than Musk and his companies.

[spryfusion]

Sam Altman's blog: "We are now confident we know how to build AGI"

We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies. We continue to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to great, broadly-distributed outcomes.

We are beginning to turn our aim beyond that, to superintelligence in the true sense of the word. We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future. With superintelligence, we can do anything else. Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity.

This sounds like science fiction right now, and somewhat crazy to even talk about it. That’s alright—we’ve been there before and we’re OK with being there again. We’re pretty confident that in the next few years, everyone will see what we see, and that the need to act with great care, while still maximizing broad benefit and empowerment, is so important.

[Cyber_Rebel]

Trump to announce up to $500 billion in private sector AI infrastructure investment

Source: cbsnews

President Trump is set to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States, CBS News has learned.

OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, according to multiple people familiar with the deal.

Executives from the companies are expected to say they plan to commit $100 billion initially and pour up to $500 billion into Stargate over the next four years.

[spryfusion]

Announcing The Stargate Project

[wjfox]

ChatGPT down as thousands report issues worldwide

23 January 2025, 13:49 GMT

Thousands of people have reported they are unable to use the world's best-known artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPT

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than 10,000 people reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on Thursday.

Users attempting to use it were met with a message reading "the web server reported a bad gateway error".

OpenAI has not yet publicly commented on the outage. The BBC has contacted the firm for comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30d80lg579o

[spryfusion]

Introducing Operator

Today we’re releasing Operator⁠, an agent that can go to the web to perform tasks for you. Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage and interact with it by typing, clicking, and scrolling. It is currently a research preview, meaning it has limitations and will evolve based on user feedback. Operator is one of our first agents, which are AIs capable of doing work for you independently—you give it a task and it will execute it.

Operator can be asked to handle a wide variety of repetitive browser tasks such as filling out forms, ordering groceries, and even creating memes. The ability to use the same interfaces and tools that humans interact with on a daily basis broadens the utility of AI, helping people save time on everyday tasks while opening up new engagement opportunities for businesses.

To ensure a safe and iterative rollout, we are starting small. Starting today, Operator is available to Pro users in the U.S. at operator.chatgpt.com⁠. This research preview allows us to learn from our users and the broader ecosystem, refining and improving as we go. Our plan is to expand to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users and integrate these capabilities into ChatGPT in the future.

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[wjfox]

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

2 hours ago

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

The San Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of “distillation”, which it suspects to be from DeepSeek.

The technique is used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable ones, allowing them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.

Distillation is a common practice in the industry but the concern was that DeepSeek may be doing it to build its own rival model, which is a breach of OpenAI’s terms of service.

“The issue is when you [take it out of the platform and] are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes,” said one person close to OpenAI.

https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-525 ... e01de87ea6

[firestar464]

tfw the Chinese dgaf lol

[Cyber_Rebel]

"Copywrite only matters when we say it does."

I'm usually someone more in favor of Japan's and now the U.K.'s approach to bettering A.I. models, but the thing with DeepSeek is that they opened sourced the weights and the methods so that others might build on it. Had they not done so then what Open AI is claiming here might have more "weight" within the argument.

[spryfusion]

[spryfusion]

Introducing deep research

Today we’re launching deep research in ChatGPT, a new agentic capability that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. It accomplishes in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours.

Deep research is OpenAI's next agent that can do work for you independently—you give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst. Powered by a version of the upcoming OpenAI o3 model that’s optimized for web browsing and data analysis, it leverages reasoning to search, interpret, and analyze massive amounts of text, images, and PDFs on the internet, pivoting as needed in reaction to information it encounters.

The ability to synthesize knowledge is a prerequisite for creating new knowledge. For this reason, deep research marks a significant step toward our broader goal of developing AGI, which we have long envisioned as capable of producing novel scientific research.

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[wjfox]

Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say

Feb 7 2025 9:09 AM EST
Updated 2 Hours Ago

SoftBank
is close to finalizing a $40 billion primary investment in OpenAI at a $260 billion pre-money valuation, sources told CNBC’s David Faber.

SoftBank would pay out the funding, which would mean a $300 billion post-money valuation for OpenAI, over the next 12 to 24 months, with the first payment coming as soon as spring, Faber reported Friday. SoftBank would be able to syndicate as much as $10 billion of the amount.

The new funding would mean SoftBank surpasses Microsoft as the artificial intelligence startup’s top backer. OpenAI was last valued at $157 billion by private investors in October.

The round was initially expected to award OpenAI a valuation of $340 billion, but a source familiar with the matter later told CNBC that the amount would be closer to $300 billion.

Part of the funding is expected to be used for OpenAI’s commitment to Stargate, sources told CNBC. Stargate is a joint venture between SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle that was announced by President Donald Trump in January. The plan calls for billions of dollars to be invested in U.S. AI infrastructure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/softban ... s-say.html