After Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI in early 2023, Elon Musk said in a social media post that OpenAI was “effectively controlled” by the tech giant. Shivon Zilis, a confidante of Mr. Musk who had spent years working for his companies and had approved the Microsoft deal as a member of OpenAI’s board of…
In the summer of 2017, OpenAI built an artificial intelligence system that could play a popular video game called Defense of the Ancients, known as Dota. Inside a stadium in Seattle with more than 20,000 spectators, this A.I. system won an international Dota tournament, beating many of the world’s best players. When OpenAI’s president, Greg…
The crux of Brockman’s testimony so far has been that Musk was aware of plans to shift OpenAI to be more of a traditional for-profit business. When the company started, it was a non-profit, then it added a for-profit arm in order to raise billions of dollars in funding for investors, before deciding last year…
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI sales leader James Dyett said on Monday that he’s leaving his role, the latest in a string of high-profile departures at the artificial intelligence company. Dyett joined OpenAI in 2023, right as the company underwent a period of explosive growth following the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot. His…
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors. The study was published this week in Science and comes from a research team led by physicians and computer scientists at…
India has emerged as the largest user base for ChatGPT Images 2.0 since its launch last week, OpenAI said on Thursday. However, third-party data reviewed by TechCrunch points to a more measured global response, with limited overall growth alongside sharp spikes in select emerging markets. ChatGPT Images 2.0, OpenAI’s latest image-generation upgrade, is designed to…
Since he had a testy fireside chat about artificial intelligence with the Google co-founder Larry Page more than a decade ago, Elon Musk has had one big fear: that A.I. could eventually destroy humanity. It was one reason, he has often said, that he started the nonprofit A.I. lab OpenAI with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman…
OpenAI is getting serious about account security. The company on Thursday launched Advanced Account Security, a set of opt-in protections for ChatGPT users designed for high-value individuals — but available to anyone who wants them. As part of that new program, digital security provider Yubico announced it has partnered with OpenAI to link two new…
It was 2018, and Elon Musk was having a very busy year. His electric car company, Tesla, was struggling with manufacturing problems. He had a plan to take it private, but he kept angering regulators. SpaceX, his rocket company, was just starting to show momentum. And OpenAI, the nonprofit artificial intelligence lab he was supposed…
Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI wasn’t the charity he claims was stolen from him (we all knew that was coming). It was about an old friend. Musk testified that one of his core motivations for co-founding OpenAI was a falling-out with Google’s Larry Page over…
