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Introducing OpenAI o1
We've developed a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. Here is the latest news on o1 research, product and other updates.

https://openai.com/o1/#introducing-openAI-o1-preview





Learning to Reason with LLMs

We are introducing OpenAI o1, a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding to the user.

https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/

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OpenAI is launching an ‘independent’ safety board that can stop its model releases

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/16/2424 ... l-releases
https://openai.com/index/update-on-safe ... practices/

It honestly seems like OAI is really trying to portray itself as caring about safety these days. I wonder if this is part of a quiet shift after the fallout from both the Sam ouster and the Her drama

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Notably reposted by Jimmy Apples.

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In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.

This phenomenon is not new, but it will be newly accelerated. People have become dramatically more capable over time; we can already accomplish things now that our predecessors would have believed to be impossible.
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This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there.

How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity?

In three words: deep learning worked.

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OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode for Paid Subscribers
The feature is meant to offer a more conversational option for those who give OpenAI at least $20 per month.
By Adrianna Nine September 25, 2024

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/op ... ubscribers
OpenAI, the company behind GPT large language models and DALL-E image generators, has started to roll out an "advanced" voice mode for paid ChatGPT subscribers. Now, ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise customers in the United States can use the new feature to issue conversational requests using just their voice.

OpenAI announced its advanced mode's debut in a 45-second video via X (formerly Twitter). In the video, a young woman tells ChatGPT she'd like to apologize to her grandmother for being late. In a human-like cadence, ChatGPT responds that it's sweet for the user to want to apologize, then offers a way for the user to say sorry. The user interrupts ChatGPT to say her grandmother only speaks Mandarin. ChatGPT quickly reroutes to offer the user a heartfelt apology in Mandarin, explaining what it's just said in English at the end.

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Here's what I was able to gather:

OpenAI weighing governance shift away from non-profit

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-AA1rdgEP

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati departs, and two top research execs follow

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/25/openai- ... mpany.html

(Said execs are the chief research officer and the VP of research)

OpenAI is revamping Sora

https://www.theinformation.com/articles ... a-ai-video

OpenAI’s Strawberry program is reportedly capable of reasoning. It might be able to deceive humans

https://theconversation.com/openais-str ... ans-239748

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(that last reply was sarcasm)

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If I may put on the tinfoil hat on...interesting that many of those who know Sam well are just casually heading out

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I suppose product releases will remain unaffected.

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I suppose product releases will remain unaffected.

Judging from this article, they're about to speed up. It truly does seem like the fiasco that's been happening behind the scenes at Open AI really was a kind of ideological battle between acceleration v. safety, with an incentive to stay at the forefront. To be honest, I'm not certain if such is the best way to bring about AGI into the world, and I say that as an accelerationist myself. It reads like something from a Cyberpunk pretext with the corporate drama, only missing hired zaibatsu infiltrating Google/Open AI HQ and whatnot to impede or steal valuable tech. I'd suppose the Altman ouster and attempted merge with Anthropic was kind of similar though.

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Before Mira Murati’s surprise exit from OpenAI, staff grumbled its o1 model had been released prematurely
BY: Jeremy Kahn, Sharon Goldman and Kali Hays
October 1, 2024 at 10:30 AM PDT

Source: Fortune

When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, not the company’s better-known CEO, Sam Altman, who emceed the event.

Murati, dressed in a gray collared T-shirt and jeans, helped show off the software’s ability to interact through voice and image prompts, as well as its skill at simultaneous translation, math, and coding. It was an impressive live demo, timed to steal the thunder from OpenAI’s rival Google, which was set to unveil new features for its own AI chatbot, Gemini, later that week.

But behind the scenes, things were far from smooth, according to sources familiar with the company’s internal workings. Relentless pressure to introduce products such as GPT-4o, and a newer model, called o1, which debuted last month, were straining the abilities of OpenAI’s research and safety teams to keep pace. There was friction between teams dedicated to ensuring OpenAI’s products did not pose undue risks, such as the ability to assist with producing biological weapons, and commercial teams dedicated to getting new products into the market and making money.

Many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, but Altman pushed to launch it anyway to burnish OpenAI’s reputation as a leader in AI. This is the first time details of this debate over o1 have been reported publicly.

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OpenAI sees roughly $5 billion loss this year on $3.7 billion in revenue

Sep 27 2024

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year, CNBC has confirmed.

The company generated $300 million in revenue last month, up 1,700% since the beginning of last year, and expects to bring in $11.6 billion in sales next year, according to a person close to OpenAI who asked not to be named because the numbers are confidential.

The New York Times was first to report on OpenAI’s financials earlier on Friday after viewing company documents. CNBC hasn’t seen the financials.

OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, is currently pursuing a funding round that would value the company at more than $150 billion, people familiar with the matter have told CNBC. Thrive Capital is leading the round and plans to invest $1 billion, with Tiger Global planning to join as well.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told investors in an email Thursday that the funding round is oversubscribed and will close by next week. Her note followed a number of key departures, most notably technology chief Mira Murati, who announced the previous day that she was leaving OpenAI after six and a half years.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai- ... ty.Message

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I suppose product releases will remain unaffected.

Judging from this article, they're about to speed up. It truly does seem like the fiasco that's been happening behind the scenes at Open AI really was a kind of ideological battle between acceleration v. safety, with an incentive to stay at the forefront. To be honest, I'm not certain if such is the best way to bring about AGI into the world, and I say that as an accelerationist myself. It reads like something from a Cyberpunk pretext with the corporate drama, only missing hired zaibatsu infiltrating Google/Open AI HQ and whatnot to impede or steal valuable tech. I'd suppose the Altman ouster and attempted merge with Anthropic was kind of similar though.

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Before Mira Murati’s surprise exit from OpenAI, staff grumbled its o1 model had been released prematurely
BY: Jeremy Kahn, Sharon Goldman and Kali Hays
October 1, 2024 at 10:30 AM PDT

Source: Fortune

When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, not the company’s better-known CEO, Sam Altman, who emceed the event.

Murati, dressed in a gray collared T-shirt and jeans, helped show off the software’s ability to interact through voice and image prompts, as well as its skill at simultaneous translation, math, and coding. It was an impressive live demo, timed to steal the thunder from OpenAI’s rival Google, which was set to unveil new features for its own AI chatbot, Gemini, later that week.

But behind the scenes, things were far from smooth, according to sources familiar with the company’s internal workings. Relentless pressure to introduce products such as GPT-4o, and a newer model, called o1, which debuted last month, were straining the abilities of OpenAI’s research and safety teams to keep pace. There was friction between teams dedicated to ensuring OpenAI’s products did not pose undue risks, such as the ability to assist with producing biological weapons, and commercial teams dedicated to getting new products into the market and making money.

Many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, but Altman pushed to launch it anyway to burnish OpenAI’s reputation as a leader in AI. This is the first time details of this debate over o1 have been reported publicly.

Some current employees, however, say they are not unhappy about the changes. They hope internal conflict will be more infrequent now that colleagues whom they call too academic or overly worried about AI safety, and therefore reluctant to ever release products, are increasingly choosing to leave.

Holy s--- it feels like these people were hired off r/singularity. "Nothing could ever go wrong, I hate seatbelts, accelerate, feel the AGI (never mind that it was Ilya that coined the slogan and they called him weird for using it), SAM ALTMAN TOTAL GOOD. PRAISE BE TO HIM"

Not saying "Sam Altman total bad" (the other extreme) but it's so weird that there are so many uncritical futurists out there