ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What began as a software to supercharge productiveness by way of writing essays and code with short text prompts has advanced right into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.
2024 was an enormous yr for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI providing, Apple Intelligence, the discharge of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora.
OpenAI additionally confronted its share of inner drama, together with the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati. OpenAI has additionally been hit with lawsuits from Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers alleging copyright infringement, in addition to an injunction from Elon Musk to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit.
In 2025, OpenAI is battling the notion that it’s ceding floor within the AI race to Chinese rivals like DeepSeek. The corporate has been attempting to shore up its relationship with Washington because it concurrently pursues an ambitious data center project, and because it reportedly lays the groundwork for one of many largest funding rounds in historical past.
Beneath, you’ll discover a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, beginning with the newest, which we’ve been updating all year long. You probably have every other questions, take a look at our ChatGPT FAQ here.
Timeline of the newest ChatGPT updates
February 2025
OpenAI cancels its o3 AI mannequin in favor of a ‘unified’ next-gen launch
OpenAI has successfully canceled the discharge of o3 in favor of what CEO Sam Altman is asking a “simplified” product providing. In a submit on X, Altman stated that, within the coming months, OpenAI will launch a mannequin referred to as GPT-5 that “integrates quite a lot of [OpenAI’s] expertise,” together with o3, in ChatGPT and its API. Because of that roadmap resolution, OpenAI not plans to launch o3 as a standalone mannequin.
ChatGPT is probably not as power-hungry as as soon as assumed
A commonly cited stat is that ChatGPT requires round 3 watt-hours of energy to reply a single query. Utilizing OpenAI’s newest default mannequin for ChatGPT, GPT-4o, as a reference, nonprofit AI research institute Epoch AI discovered the typical ChatGPT question consumes around 0.3 watt-hours. Nonetheless, the evaluation doesn’t think about the extra power prices incurred by ChatGPT with options like picture technology or enter processing.
OpenAI now reveals extra of its o3-mini mannequin’s thought course of
In response to strain from rivals like DeepSeek, OpenAI is altering the way in which its o3-mini mannequin communicates its step-by-step “thought” process. ChatGPT customers will see an up to date “chain of thought” that reveals extra of the mannequin’s “reasoning” steps and the way it arrived at solutions to questions.
Now you can use ChatGPT internet search with out logging in
OpenAI is now permitting anybody to make use of ChatGPT internet search without having to log in. Whereas OpenAI had previously allowed customers to ask ChatGPT questions with out signing in, responses had been restricted to the chatbot’s final coaching replace. This solely applies by way of ChatGPT.com, nevertheless. To make use of ChatGPT in any kind by way of the native cellular app, you’ll nonetheless must be logged in.
OpenAI unveils a brand new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep analysis’
OpenAI introduced a brand new AI “agent” called deep research that’s designed to assist folks conduct in-depth, complicated analysis utilizing ChatGPT. OpenAI says the “agent” is meant for situations the place you don’t simply need a fast reply or abstract, however as an alternative have to assiduously think about data from a number of web sites and different sources.
January 2025
OpenAI used a subreddit to check AI persuasion
OpenAI used the subreddit r/ChangeMyView to measure the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning fashions. OpenAI says it collects consumer posts from the subreddit and asks its AI fashions to jot down replies, in a closed surroundings, that will change the Reddit consumer’s thoughts on a topic. The corporate then reveals the responses to testers, who assess how persuasive the argument is, and eventually OpenAI compares the AI fashions’ responses to human replies for that very same submit.
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its newest ‘reasoning’ mannequin
OpenAI launched a brand new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the latest within the firm’s o household of fashions. OpenAI first previewed the model in December alongside a extra succesful system referred to as o3. OpenAI is pitching its new mannequin as each “highly effective” and “inexpensive.”
ChatGPT’s cellular customers are 85% male, report says
A brand new report from app analytics agency Appfigures discovered that over half of ChatGPT’s mobile users are below age 25, with customers between ages 50 and 64 making up the second largest age demographic. The gender hole amongst ChatGPT customers is much more important. Appfigures estimates that throughout age teams, males make up 84.5% of all customers.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for US authorities businesses
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Gov designed to provide U.S. government agencies an extra solution to entry the tech. ChatGPT Gov contains lots of the capabilities present in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Gov permits businesses to extra simply handle their very own safety, privateness, and compliance, and will expedite inner authorization of OpenAI’s instruments for the dealing with of personal delicate information.
Extra teenagers report utilizing ChatGPT for schoolwork, regardless of the tech’s faults
Youthful Gen Zers are embracing ChatGPT, for schoolwork, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. In a follow-up to its 2023 ballot on ChatGPT utilization amongst younger folks, Pew requested ~1,400 U.S.-based teenagers ages 13 to 17 whether or not they’ve used ChatGPT for homework or different school-related assignments. Twenty-six % stated that that they had, double the quantity two years in the past. Simply over half of teenagers responding to the ballot stated they suppose it’s acceptable to make use of ChatGPT for researching new topics. However contemplating the methods ChatGPT can fall quick, the outcomes are probably trigger for alarm.
OpenAI says it could retailer deleted Operator information for as much as 90 days
OpenAI says that it’d retailer chats and related screenshots from prospects who use Operator, the company’s AI “agent” tool, for as much as 90 days — even after a consumer manually deletes them. Whereas OpenAI has an identical deleted information retention coverage for ChatGPT, the retention interval for ChatGPT is barely 30 days, which is 60 days shorter than Operator’s.
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs duties autonomously
OpenAI is launching a analysis preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that may take control of a web browser and independently perform certain actions. Operator guarantees to automate duties reminiscent of reserving journey lodging, making restaurant reservations, and procuring on-line.
OpenAI could preview its agent software for customers on the $200-per-month Professional plan
Operator, OpenAI’s agent tool, could possibly be launched sooner quite than later. Modifications to ChatGPT’s code base recommend that Operator will be available as an early research preview to customers on the $200 Professional subscription plan. The modifications aren’t but publicly seen, however a user on X who goes by Choi noticed these updates in ChatGPT’s client-side code. TechCrunch individually recognized the identical references to Operator on OpenAI’s web site.
OpenAI checks telephone number-only ChatGPT signups
OpenAI has begun testing a function that lets new ChatGPT customers sign up with only a phone number — no e mail required. The function is at the moment in beta within the U.S. and India. Nonetheless, customers who create an account utilizing their quantity can’t improve to certainly one of OpenAI’s paid plans with out verifying their account through an e mail. Multi-factor authentication additionally isn’t supported and not using a legitimate e mail.
ChatGPT now helps you to schedule reminders and recurring duties
ChatGPT’s new beta function, referred to as duties, allows users to set simple reminders. For instance, you may ask ChatGPT to remind you when your passport expires in six months, and the AI assistant will comply with up with a push notification on no matter platform you’ve got duties enabled. The function will begin rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Group, and Professional customers across the globe this week.
New ChatGPT function lets customers assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’
OpenAI is introducing a brand new manner for customers to customize their interactions with ChatGPT. Some customers discovered they’ll specify a most well-liked identify or nickname and “traits” they’d just like the chatbot to have. OpenAI suggests traits like “Chatty,” “Encouraging,” and “Gen Z.” Nonetheless, some users reported that the brand new choices have disappeared, so it’s doable they went stay prematurely.
December 2024
ChatGPT Search will be tricked into deceptive customers, new analysis reveals
ChatGPT Search will be fooled into producing utterly deceptive summaries, The Guardian has found. They discovered ChatGPT could possibly be prompted to disregard unfavourable critiques and generate “entirely positive” summaries by inserting hidden textual content into web sites it created and that ChatGPT Search may be made to spit out malicious code utilizing this methodology.
Microsoft and OpenAI reportedly have a finance-centric definition of AGI
Microsoft and OpenAI have a really specific, internal definition of AGI based mostly on the startup’s earnings, in response to a brand new report from The Information. The 2 corporations reportedly signed an settlement stating OpenAI has solely achieved AGI when it develops AI methods that may generate at the very least $100 billion in revenue, which is much from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many would count on.
OpenAI educated o1 and o3 to ‘suppose’ about its security coverage
OpenAI released new research outlining the corporate’s method to make sure AI reasoning fashions keep aligned with the values of their human builders. The startup used “deliberative alignment” to make o1 and o3 “think” about OpenAI’s safety policy. In response to OpenAI’s analysis, the strategy decreased the speed at which o1 answered “unsafe” questions whereas enhancing its means to reply benign ones.
OpenAI pronounces new o3 reasoning fashions
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced the successors to its o1 reasoning model family: o3 and o3-mini. The fashions will not be extensively obtainable but, however security researchers can join a preview. The reveal marks the top of the “12 Days of OpenAI” occasion, which noticed bulletins for real-time imaginative and prescient capabilities, ChatGPT Search, and even a Santa voice for ChatGPT.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landline
In an effort to make ChatGPT accessible to as many individuals as doable, OpenAI introduced a 1-800 number to call the chatbot — even from a landline or a flip telephone. Customers can name 1-800-CHATGPT, and ChatGPT will reply to your queries in an expertise that is kind of similar to Superior Voice Mode — minus the multimodality.
OpenAI is providing quarter-hour of free calling for U.S. customers. The corporate notes that normal service charges could apply.
OpenAI brings its ChatGPT Search to extra customers
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Search to free, logged in users. Search offers ChatGPT the flexibility to entry real-time data on the net to higher reply your queries, however was solely obtainable for paid customers when it launched in October. Not solely is Search obtainable now without cost customers, nevertheless it’s additionally been built-in into Advanced Voice Mode.
OpenAI blames huge ChatGPT outage on a ‘new telemetry service’
OpenAI is blaming one of many longest outages in its historical past on a “new telemetry service” gone awry. OpenAI wrote in a postmortem that the outage wasn’t attributable to a safety incident or current product launch, however by a telemetry service it deployed to gather Kubernetes metrics.
You may make ChatGPT sound like Santa for a restricted time
OpenAI introduced that ChatGPT customers might entry a new “Santa Mode” voice throughout December. The function permits customers to talk with ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode, however with a Christmas twist. The voice sounds, nicely, “merry and brilliant,” as OpenAI described it. Suppose boomy, jolly — roughly like each Santa you’ve ever heard.
OpenAI provides imaginative and prescient to Superior Voice Mode
OpenAI launched the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed practically seven months in the past. ChatGPT Plus, Group, and Professional subscribers can use the app to level their telephones at objects and have ChatGPT reply in near-real-time. The function can even perceive what’s on a tool’s display by way of display sharing.
There’s extra to come back from OpenAI by way of December 23. Tune in to our live blog to remain up to date.
ChatGPT and Sora hit with a serious outage
ChatGPT and Sora each skilled a serious outage Wednesday. Although customers suspected the outage was because of the rollout of ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence, OpenAI developer neighborhood lead Edwin Arbus denied it in a post on X, saying the “outage was unrelated to 12 Days of OpenAI or Apple Intelligence. We made a config change that prompted many servers to develop into unavailable.”
Canvas rolls out to everybody
Canvas, OpenAI’s collaboration-focused interface for writing and code initiatives, is now rolling out to all customers after being in beta for ChatGPT Plus members since October 2024. The corporate additionally introduced the flexibility to combine Python code inside Canvas in addition to bringing Canvas to customized GPTs.
OpenAI pauses Sora sign-ups resulting from excessive demand
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that resulting from greater than anticipated demand, they’re pausing new sign-ups for its video generator Sora and that video generations shall be slower in the interim. The company released Sora as a part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” occasion following nearly a year of teasing the product.
OpenAI releases Sora for ChatGPT Plus and Professional subscribers
OpenAI has lastly launched its text to video model, Sora. The mannequin can generate movies as much as 20 seconds lengthy in 1080p based mostly on textual content prompts or uploaded pictures, and will be “remixed” by way of further consumer prompts. Sora is obtainable beginning at this time to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers (besides within the EU).
In Monday’s “12 Days of OpenAI” livestream, CEO Sam Altman stated that ChatGPT Plus members will get 50 video generations a month, whereas ChatGPT Professional customers will get “limitless” generations of their “gradual queue mode” and 500 “regular” generations per thirty days.
There are nonetheless extra reveals to come back from OpenAI by way of December 23. Tune in to our live blog to remain up to date.
OpenAI launches $200 month-to-month ChatGPT Professional subscription — and full model of o1
On day certainly one of its 12 Days of OpenAI event, the corporate introduced a brand new — and costly — subscription plan. ChatGPT Professional is a $200-per-month tier that gives limitless entry to all of OpenAI’s fashions, together with the total model of its o1 “reasoning” mannequin.
The total model of o1, which was released as a preview in September, can now purpose about picture uploads and has been educated to be “extra concise in its considering” to enhance response occasions.
Over the subsequent few weeks, we’ll be updating all of the information from OpenAI because it occurs on our live blog. Comply with together with us!
OpenAI pronounces 12 days of reveals for the vacations
OpenAI introduced “12 Days of OpenAI,” which can function livestreams each weekday beginning December 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Every day’s stream is claimed to incorporate both a product launch or a demo in various sizes.
ChatGPT surpasses 300M weekly energetic customers, Sam Altman says
On the New York Instances’ Dealbook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that ChatGPT has surpassed 300 million weekly active users. The milestone comes just some months after the chatbot hit 200 million weekly active users in August 2024 and simply over a yr after reaching 100 million weekly active users in November 2023.
November 2024
Customers found the identify ‘David Mayer’ crashed ChatGPT
ChatGPT customers found an fascinating phenomenon: the favored chatbot refused to reply questions asked about a “David Mayer,” and asking it to take action prompted it to freeze up immediately. Whereas the unusual conduct spawned conspiracy theories, and a slew of different names being impacted, a way more bizarre purpose could also be on the coronary heart of it: digital privacy requests.
Adverts is likely to be headed to ChatGPT
OpenAI is toying with the idea of getting into ads. CFO Sarah Friar told the Financial Times it’s weighing an adverts enterprise mannequin, with plans to be “considerate” about when and the place adverts seem — although she later careworn that the corporate has “no energetic plans to pursue promoting.” Nonetheless, the exploration could increase eyebrows provided that Sam Altman just lately stated ads would be a “last resort.”
Canadian information corporations sue OpenAI
A gaggle of Canadian media corporations, together with the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. The businesses behind the go well with stated that OpenAI infringed their copyrights and are in search of to win financial damages — and ban OpenAI from making additional use of their work.
GPT-4o will get an improve
OpenAI introduced that its GPT-4o mannequin has been up to date to function extra “pure” and “participating” artistic writing skills in addition to extra thorough responses and insights when accessing information uploaded by customers.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode to the online
ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode function is expanding to the web, permitting customers to speak to the chatbot by way of their browser. The conversational function is rolling out to ChatGPT’s paying Plus, Enterprise, Groups, or Edu subscribers.
ChatGPT can now learn a few of your Mac’s desktop apps
OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code in a handful of developer-focused coding apps, reminiscent of VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 — that means that builders will not have to repeat and paste their code into ChatGPT. When the function is enabled, OpenAI will mechanically ship the part of code you’re engaged on by way of its chatbot as context, alongside your immediate.
OpenAI loses one other lead security researcher
Lilian Weng introduced on X that she is departing OpenAI. Weng served as VP of analysis and security since August, and earlier than that was the pinnacle of OpenAI’s security methods staff. It’s the newest in an extended string of AI safety researchers,policy researchers, and other executives who’ve exited the corporate within the final yr.
ChatGPT informed 2M folks to get their election information elsewhere
OpenAI said that it informed round 2 million customers of ChatGPT to go elsewhere for information about the 2024 U.S. election, and as an alternative really helpful trusted information sources like Reuters and the Related Press.
In a weblog submit, OpenAI stated that ChatGPT despatched roughly 1,000,000 folks to CanIVote.org after they requested questions particular to voting within the lead-up to the election and rejected around 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates over the identical interval.
OpenAI acquires Chat.com
Including to its assortment of high-profile domains, Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. Final yr, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of many high two all-time publicly reported area gross sales — although OpenAI declined to state how a lot it paid for it.
Meta’s former {hardware} lead for Orion is becoming a member of OpenAI
The previous head of Meta’s augmented actuality glasses efforts is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware. Kalinowski is a {hardware} government who started main Meta’s AR glasses team in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the spectacular augmented actuality prototype that Meta just lately confirmed off at its annual Connect conference.
Apple customers will quickly be capable to improve to ChatGPT Plus within the Settings app
Apple is together with an choice to improve to ChatGPT Plus inside its Settings app, in response to an replace to the iOS 18.2 beta spotted by 9to5Mac. It will give Apple customers a direct route to join OpenAI’s premium subscription plan, which prices $20 a month.
October 2024
Sam Altman says a scarcity of compute capability is delaying product releases
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted {that a} lack of compute capability is one main issue stopping the corporate from transport merchandise as usually because it’d like, together with the imaginative and prescient capabilities for Superior Voice Mode first teased in May. Altman additionally indicated that the subsequent main launch of DALL-E, OpenAI’s picture generator, has no launch timeline, and that Sora, OpenAI’s video-generating tool, has additionally been held again.
Altman additionally admitted to using ChatGPT “sometimes” to reply questions all through the AMA.
OpenAI launches its Google search challenger
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer season. Powered by a fine-tuned model of OpenAI’s GPT-4o mannequin, ChatGPT Search serves up data and pictures from the online together with hyperlinks to related sources, at which level you may ask follow-up inquiries to refine an ongoing search.
Superior Voice Mode involves Mac and PC
OpenAI has rolled out Superior Voice Mode to ChatGPT’s desktop apps for macOS and Home windows. For Mac customers, that signifies that each ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode can coexist with Siri on the identical system, main the way in which for ChatGPT’s Apple Intelligence integration.
OpenAI is reportedly planning to construct its first AI chip
Reuters reviews that OpenAI is working with TSMC and Broadcom to build an in-house AI chip, which might arrive as quickly as 2026. It seems, at the very least for now, the corporate has deserted plans to determine a community of factories for chip manufacturing and is as an alternative specializing in in-house chip design.
Now you can search by way of your ChatGPT historical past
OpenAI introduced it’s rolling out a function that enables customers to look by way of their ChatGPT chat histories on the net. The brand new function will let customers deliver up an outdated chat to recollect one thing or choose again up a chat proper the place it was left off.
ChatGPT rolls out with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 replace
With the release of iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence options powered by ChatGPT are now available to users. The ChatGPT options embrace built-in writing instruments, picture cleanup, article summaries, and a typing enter for the redesigned Siri expertise.
OpenAI says it received’t launch a mannequin referred to as Orion this yr
OpenAI denied reviews that it’s aspiring to launch an AI model, code-named Orion, by December of this yr. An OpenAI spokesperson informed TechCrunch that they “don’t have plans to launch a mannequin code-named Orion this yr,” however that leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.
ChatGPT involves Home windows
OpenAI has begun previewing a dedicated Windows app for ChatGPT. The corporate says the app is an early model and is at the moment solely obtainable to ChatGPT Plus, Group, Enterprise, and Edu customers with a “full expertise” set to come back later this yr.
OpenAI inks new content material cope with Hearst
OpenAI struck a content deal with Hearst, the newspaper and journal writer identified for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others. The partnership will enable OpenAI to floor tales from Hearst publications with citations and direct hyperlinks.
ChatGPT has a brand new ‘Canvas’ interface for writing and coding initiatives
OpenAI launched a brand new solution to interact with ChatGPT called “Canvas.” The canvas workspace permits for customers to generate writing or code, then spotlight sections of the work to have the mannequin edit. Canvas is rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Groups, with a rollout to come back to Enterprise and Edu tier customers subsequent week.
OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B
OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time. The startup introduced it raised $6.6 billion in a funding spherical that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by earlier investor Thrive Capital, the brand new money brings OpenAI’s whole raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase.
Dev Day brings Realtime API to AI app builders
On the first of its 2024 Dev Day occasions, OpenAI announced a new API tool that may let builders construct practically real-time, speech-to-speech experiences of their apps, with the selection of utilizing six voices offered by OpenAI. These voices are distinct from these supplied for ChatGPT, and builders can’t use third celebration voices, with a view to forestall copyright points.
September 2024
OpenAI would possibly increase the worth of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029
OpenAI is planning to raise the price of individual ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per thirty days to $22 per thirty days by the top of the yr, in response to a report from The New York Instances. The report notes {that a} steeper enhance might come over the subsequent 5 years; by 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll cost $44 per thirty days for ChatGPT Plus.
Mira Murati exists OpenAI
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati introduced that she is leaving the company after greater than six years. Hours after the announcement, OpenAI’s chief analysis officer, Bob McGrew, and a analysis VP, Barret Zoph, also left the company. CEO Sam Altman revealed the 2 newest resignations in a submit on X, together with management transition plans.
OpenAI rolls out Superior Voice Mode with extra voices and a brand new look
After a delay, OpenAI is lastly rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to an expanded set of ChatGPT’s paying prospects. AVM can also be getting a revamped design — the function is now represented by a blue animated sphere as an alternative of the animated black dots that had been introduced again in Could. OpenAI is highlighting enhancements in conversational pace, accents in international languages, and 5 new voices as a part of the rollout.
YouTuber finds a solution to run ChatGPT on a graphing calculator
A video from YouTube creator ChromaLock showcased the way to modify a TI-84 graphing calculator in order that it will probably hook up with the web and access ChatGPT, touting it because the “final dishonest system.” As demonstrated within the video, it’s a fairly sophisticated course of for the typical highschool scholar to comply with — nevertheless it would possibly stoke extra considerations from lecturers concerning the ongoing considerations about ChatGPT and dishonest in faculties.
OpenAI pronounces OpenAI o1, a brand new mannequin that may fact-check itself
OpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, often known as “Strawberry.” The gathering of fashions can be found in ChatGPT and through OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1 mini. The corporate claims that o1 can extra successfully purpose by way of math and science and fact-check itself by spending extra time contemplating all components of a command or query.
Not like ChatGPT, o1 can’t browse the online or analyze information but, is rate-limited and costly in comparison with different fashions. OpenAI says it plans to deliver o1-mini entry to all free customers of ChatGPT, however hasn’t set a launch date.
A hacker was capable of trick ChatGPT into giving directions on the way to make bombs
An artist and hacker discovered a way to jailbreak ChatGPT to provide directions for making highly effective explosives, a request that the chatbot usually refuses. An explosives skilled who reviewed the chatbot’s output informed TechCrunch that the directions could possibly be used to make a detonatable product and was too delicate to be launched.
OpenAI reaches 1 million paid customers of its company choices
OpenAI introduced it has surpassed 1 million paid users for its variations of ChatGPT meant for companies, together with ChatGPT Group, ChatGPT Enterprise and its academic providing, ChatGPT Edu. The corporate stated that just about half of OpenAI’s company customers are based mostly within the US.
Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT assistant to the US
Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to automobiles in the USA. Its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant is an AI chatbot based mostly on Cerence’s Chat Professional product and a LLM from OpenAI and can start rolling out on September 6 with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI fashions.
August 2024
OpenAI inks content material cope with Condé Nast
As a part of the brand new deal, OpenAI will surface stories from Condé Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Self-importance Honest, Bon Appétit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the “multi-year” deal will contain fee from OpenAI in some kind and a Condé Nast spokesperson informed TechCrunch that OpenAI may have permission to coach on Condé Nast content material.
Our first impressions of ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode
TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff has been playing around with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, in what he describes as “essentially the most convincing style I’ve had of an AI-powered future but.” In comparison with Siri or Alexa, Superior Voice Mode stands out with quicker response occasions, distinctive solutions and the flexibility to reply complicated questions. However the function falls quick as an efficient substitute for digital assistants.
OpenAI shuts down election affect operation that used ChatGPT
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was producing content material concerning the U.S. presidential election. OpenAI identified five website fronts presenting as each progressive and conservative information retailers that used ChatGPT to draft a number of long-form articles, although it doesn’t appear that it reached a lot of an viewers.
OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some bizarre stuff generally
OpenAI has discovered that GPT-4o, which powers the just lately launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, can behave in unusual methods. In a brand new “pink teaming” report, OpenAI reveals a few of GPT-4o’s weirder quirks, like mimicking the voice of the particular person chatting with it or randomly shouting in the course of a dialog.
ChatGPT’s cellular app reviews its greatest month but
After an enormous leap following the discharge of OpenAI’s new GPT-4o “omni” model, the cellular model of ChatGPT has now seen its biggest month of revenue yet. The app pulled in $28 million in web income from the App Retailer and Google Play in July, in response to information offered by app intelligence agency Appfigures.
OpenAI might doubtlessly catch college students who cheat with ChatGPT
OpenAI has constructed a watermarking software that would doubtlessly catch college students who cheat through the use of ChatGPT — however The Wall Street Journal reports that the corporate is debating whether or not to really launch it. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the corporate is researching instruments that may detect writing from ChatGPT, however stated it’s taking a “deliberate approach” to releasing it.
July 2024
ChatGPT’s superior Voice Mode begins rolling out to some customers
OpenAI is giving customers their first entry to GPT-4o’s updated realistic audio responses. The alpha model is now obtainable to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers, and the corporate says the function will regularly roll out to all Plus customers within the fall of 2024. The discharge follows controversy surrounding the voice’s similarity to Scarlett Johansson, main OpenAI to delay its launch.
OpenAI pronounces new search prototype, SearchGPT
OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a brand new AI search expertise to compete with Google. SearchGPT goals to raise search queries with “well timed solutions” from throughout the web, in addition to the flexibility to ask follow-up questions. The short-term prototype is at the moment solely obtainable to a small group of customers and its writer companions, like The Atlantic, for testing and suggestions.
OpenAI might lose $5 billion this yr, report claims
A brand new report from The Information, based mostly on undisclosed monetary data, claims OpenAI might lose as much as $5 billion resulting from how expensive the enterprise is to function. The report additionally says the corporate might spend as a lot as $7 billion in 2024 to coach and function ChatGPT.
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini
OpenAI launched its newest small AI mannequin, GPT-4o mini. The corporate says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and quicker than OpenAI’s present AI fashions, outperforms business main small AI fashions on reasoning duties involving textual content and imaginative and prescient. GPT-4o mini will change GPT-3.5 Turbo because the smallest mannequin OpenAI gives.
OpenAI companions with Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratory for bioscience analysis
OpenAI introduced a partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to review how AI will be employed by scientists with a view to advance analysis in healthcare and bioscience. This follows different health-related analysis collaborations at OpenAI, together with Moderna and Color Health.
June 2024
OpenAI makes CriticGPT to seek out errors in GPT-4
OpenAI introduced it has educated a mannequin off of GPT-4, dubbed CriticGPT, which goals to seek out errors in ChatGPT’s code output to allow them to make enhancements and higher assist so-called human “AI trainers” price the standard and accuracy of ChatGPT responses.
OpenAI inks content material cope with TIME
OpenAI and TIME introduced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the journal’s content material, each trendy and archival, to ChatGPT. As a part of the deal, TIME will even acquire entry to OpenAI’s expertise with a view to develop new audience-based merchandise.
OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode
OpenAI deliberate to start out rolling out its advanced Voice Mode function to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers in late June, nevertheless it says lingering issues forced it to postpone the launch to July. OpenAI says Superior Voice Mode won’t launch for all ChatGPT Plus prospects till the autumn, relying on whether or not it meets sure inner security and reliability checks.
ChatGPT releases app for Mac
ChatGPT for macOS is now available for all users. With the app, customers can shortly name up ChatGPT through the use of the keyboard mixture of Possibility + House. The app permits customers to add information and different pictures, in addition to communicate to ChatGPT from their desktop and search by way of their previous conversations.
Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, together with Siri
Apple introduced at WWDC 2024 that it’s bringing ChatGPT to Siri and other first-party apps and capabilities throughout its working methods. The ChatGPT integrations, powered by GPT-4o, will arrive on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia later this yr, and shall be free with out the necessity to create a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Options unique to paying ChatGPT customers will also be available through Apple devices.
Home Oversight subcommittee invitations Scarlett Johansson to testify about ‘Sky’ controversy
Scarlett Johansson has been invited to testify concerning the controversy surrounding OpenAI’s Sky voice at a listening to for the Home Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Info Expertise, and Authorities Innovation. In a letter, Rep. Nancy Mace stated Johansson’s testimony might “present a platform” for considerations round deepfakes.
ChatGPT experiences two outages in a single day
ChatGPT was down twice in one day: one multi-hour outage within the early hours of the morning Tuesday and one other outage later within the day that’s nonetheless ongoing. Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity additionally skilled some points.
Could 2024
The Atlantic and Vox Media ink content material offers with OpenAI
The Atlantic and Vox Media have introduced licensing and product partnerships with OpenAI. Each agreements enable OpenAI to make use of the publishers’ present content material to generate responses in ChatGPT, which can function citations to related articles. Vox Media says it should use OpenAI’s expertise to construct “audience-facing and internal applications,” whereas The Atlantic will construct a new experimental product called Atlantic Labs.
OpenAI indicators 100K PwC employees to ChatGPT’s enterprise tier
OpenAI introduced a brand new cope with administration consulting giant PwC. The corporate will develop into OpenAI’s greatest buyer so far, masking 100,000 customers, and can develop into OpenAI’s first associate for promoting its enterprise choices to different companies.
OpenAI says it’s coaching its GPT-4 successor
OpenAI introduced in a weblog submit that it has recently begun training its next flagship model to succeed GPT-4. The information got here in an announcement of its new security and safety committee, which is chargeable for informing security and safety selections throughout OpenAI’s merchandise.
Former OpenAI director claims the board discovered about ChatGPT on Twitter
On the The TED AI Present podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed that the board didn’t learn about ChatGPT until its launch in November 2022. Toner additionally stated that Sam Altman gave the board inaccurate details about the security processes the corporate had in place and that he didn’t disclose his involvement within the OpenAI Startup Fund.
ChatGPT’s cellular app income noticed greatest spike but following GPT-4o launch
The launch of GPT-4o has pushed the corporate’s biggest-ever spike in revenue on mobile, regardless of the mannequin being freely obtainable on the net. Cellular customers are being pushed to improve to its $19.99 month-to-month subscription, ChatGPT Plus, in the event that they wish to experiment with OpenAI’s most up-to-date launch.
OpenAI to take away ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice
After demoing its new GPT-4o mannequin final week, OpenAI announced it is pausing one of its voices, Sky, after customers discovered that it sounded much like Scarlett Johansson in “Her.”
OpenAI defined in a blog post that Sky’s voice is “not an imitation” of the actress and that AI voices mustn’t deliberately mimic the voice of a star. The weblog submit went on to elucidate how the corporate selected its voices: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.
ChatGPT helps you to add information from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
OpenAI introduced new updates for easier data analysis within ChatGPT. Customers can now add information instantly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, work together with tables and charts, and export custom-made charts for shows. The corporate says these enhancements will be added to GPT-4o within the coming weeks.
OpenAI inks deal to coach AI on Reddit information
OpenAI announced a partnership with Reddit that may give the corporate entry to “real-time, structured and distinctive content material” from the social community. Content material from Reddit shall be integrated into ChatGPT, and the businesses will work collectively to deliver new AI-powered options to Reddit customers and moderators.
OpenAI debuts GPT-4o “omni” mannequin now powering ChatGPT
OpenAI’s spring replace occasion noticed the reveal of its new omni model, GPT-4o, which has a black hole-like interface, in addition to voice and imaginative and prescient capabilities that really feel eerily like one thing out of “Her.” GPT-4o is about to roll out “iteratively” throughout its developer and consumer-facing merchandise over the subsequent few weeks.
OpenAI to construct a software that lets content material creators choose out of AI coaching
The corporate introduced it’s constructing a software, Media Supervisor, that may allow creators to better control how their content is being used to coach generative AI fashions — and provides them an choice to choose out. The aim is to have the brand new software in place and ready to use by 2025.
OpenAI explores permitting AI porn
In a brand new peek behind the curtain of its AI’s secret instructions, OpenAI additionally launched a new NSFW policy. Although it’s meant to start out a dialog about the way it would possibly enable specific pictures and textual content in its AI merchandise, it raises questions on whether or not OpenAI — or any generative AI vendor — will be trusted to deal with delicate content material ethically.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow announce partnership
In a brand new partnership, OpenAI will get access to developer platform Stack Overflow’s API and can get suggestions from builders to enhance the efficiency of their AI fashions. In return, OpenAI will embrace attributions to Stack Overflow in ChatGPT. Nonetheless, the deal was not favorable to some Stack Overflow customers — leading to some sabotaging their answer in protest.
April 2024
U.S. newspapers file copyright lawsuit towards OpenAI and Microsoft
Alden International Capital-owned newspapers, together with the New York Every day Information, the Chicago Tribune, and the Denver Submit, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the businesses stole thousands and thousands of copyrighted articles “with out permission and with out fee” to bolster ChatGPT and Copilot.
OpenAI inks content material licensing cope with Monetary Instances
OpenAI has partnered with one other information writer in Europe, London’s Financial Times, that the corporate shall be paying for content material entry. “By the partnership, ChatGPT customers will be capable to see choose attributed summaries, quotes and wealthy hyperlinks to FT journalism in response to related queries,” the FT wrote in a press release.
OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, provides GPT-4 mannequin optimized for Japanese
OpenAI is opening a new office in Tokyo and has plans for a GPT-4 mannequin optimized particularly for the Japanese language. The transfer underscores how OpenAI will seemingly have to localize its expertise to completely different languages because it expands.
Sam Altman pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to Fortune 500 corporations
In response to Reuters, OpenAI’s Sam Altman hosted hundreds of executives from Fortune 500 corporations throughout a number of cities in April, pitching variations of its AI providers meant for company use.
OpenAI releases “extra direct, much less verbose” model of GPT-4 Turbo
Premium ChatGPT customers — prospects paying for ChatGPT Plus, Group or Enterprise — can now use an updated and enhanced version of GPT-4 Turbo. The brand new mannequin brings with it enhancements in writing, math, logical reasoning and coding, OpenAI claims, in addition to a extra up-to-date information base.
ChatGPT not requires an account — however there’s a catch
Now you can use ChatGPT without signing up for an account, nevertheless it received’t be fairly the identical expertise. You received’t be capable to save or share chats, use customized directions, or different options related to a persistent account. This model of ChatGPT may have “barely extra restrictive content material insurance policies,” in response to OpenAI. When TechCrunch requested for extra particulars, nevertheless, the response was unclear:
“The signed out expertise will profit from the prevailing security mitigations which can be already constructed into the mannequin, reminiscent of refusing to generate dangerous content material. Along with these present mitigations, we’re additionally implementing further safeguards particularly designed to deal with different types of content material which may be inappropriate for a signed out expertise,” a spokesperson stated.
March 2024
OpenAI’s chatbot retailer is filling up with spam
TechCrunch discovered that the OpenAI’s GPT Retailer is flooded with bizarre, potentially copyright-infringing GPTs. A cursory search pulls up GPTs that declare to generate artwork within the model of Disney and Marvel properties, however function little greater than funnels to third-party paid providers and promote themselves as having the ability to bypass AI content material detection instruments.
The New York Instances responds to OpenAI’s claims that it “hacked” ChatGPT for its copyright lawsuit
In a court filing opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss The New York Times’ lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the newspaper asserted that “OpenAI’s attention-grabbing declare that The Instances ‘hacked’ its merchandise is as irrelevant as it’s false.” The New York Instances additionally claimed that some customers of ChatGPT used the software to bypass its paywalls.
OpenAI VP doesn’t say whether or not artists needs to be paid for coaching information
At a SXSW 2024 panel, Peter Deng, OpenAI’s VP of shopper product dodged a query on whether or not artists whose work was used to train generative AI models should be compensated. Whereas OpenAI lets artists “choose out” of and take away their work from the datasets that the corporate makes use of to coach its image-generating fashions, some artists have described the software as onerous.
A brand new report estimates that ChatGPT makes use of greater than half 1,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy per day
ChatGPT’s environmental impression seems to be huge. In response to a report from The New Yorker, ChatGPT makes use of an estimated 17,000 occasions the quantity of electrical energy than the typical U.S. family to answer roughly 200 million requests every day.
ChatGPT can now learn its solutions aloud
OpenAI launched a brand new Read Aloud feature for the online model of ChatGPT in addition to the iOS and Android apps. The function permits ChatGPT to learn its responses to queries in certainly one of 5 voice choices and may communicate 37 languages, in response to the corporate. Learn aloud is obtainable on each GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 fashions.
ChatGPT can now learn responses to you.
On iOS or Android, faucet and maintain the message after which faucet “Learn Aloud”. We’ve additionally began rolling on internet – click on the “Learn Aloud” button beneath the message. pic.twitter.com/KevIkgAFbG
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 4, 2024
February 2024
OpenAI companions with Dublin Metropolis Council to make use of GPT-4 for tourism
As a part of a brand new partnership with OpenAI, the Dublin City Council will use GPT-4 to craft personalised itineraries for vacationers, together with suggestions of distinctive and cultural locations, in an effort to help tourism throughout Europe.
A regulation agency used ChatGPT to justify a six-figure invoice for authorized providers
New York-based regulation agency Cuddy Regulation was criticized by a choose for using ChatGPT to calculate their hourly billing rate. The agency submitted a $113,500 invoice to the court docket, which was then halved by District Choose Paul Engelmayer, who referred to as the determine “nicely above” cheap calls for.
ChatGPT skilled a weird bug for a number of hours
ChatGPT customers discovered that ChatGPT was giving nonsensical answers for several hours, prompting OpenAI to analyze the problem. Incidents assorted from repetitive phrases to complicated and incorrect solutions to queries. The problem was resolved by OpenAI the next morning.
Match Group introduced cope with OpenAI with a press launch co-written by ChatGPT
The relationship app large house to Tinder, Match and OkCupid introduced an enterprise settlement with OpenAI in an enthusiastic press release written with the help of ChatGPT. The AI tech will be used to help employees with work-related tasks and are available as a part of Match’s $20 million-plus wager on AI in 2024.
ChatGPT will now keep in mind — and neglect — belongings you inform it to
As a part of a take a look at, OpenAI began rolling out new “memory” controls for a small portion of ChatGPT free and paid customers, with a broader rollout to comply with. The controls allow you to inform ChatGPT explicitly to recollect one thing, see what it remembers or flip off its reminiscence altogether. Notice that deleting a chat from chat historical past received’t erase ChatGPT’s or a customized GPT’s reminiscences — you need to delete the reminiscence itself.
We’re testing ChatGPT’s means to recollect belongings you talk about to make future chats extra useful.
This function is being rolled out to a small portion of Free and Plus customers, and it is simple to activate or off. https://t.co/1Tv355oa7V pic.twitter.com/BsFinBSTbs
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 13, 2024
OpenAI begins rolling out “Short-term Chat” function
Initially restricted to a small subset of free and subscription customers, Short-term Chat lets you’ve got a dialogue with a clean slate. With Short-term Chat, ChatGPT received’t concentrate on earlier conversations or entry reminiscences however will comply with customized directions in the event that they’re enabled.
However, OpenAI says it could make a copy of Short-term Chat conversations for as much as 30 days for “security causes.”
Use short-term chat for conversations wherein you don’t wish to use reminiscence or seem in historical past. pic.twitter.com/H1U82zoXyC
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 13, 2024
January 2024
ChatGPT customers can now invoke GPTs instantly in chats
Paid customers of ChatGPT can now bring GPTs into a conversation by typing “@” and choosing a GPT from the listing. The chosen GPT may have an understanding of the total dialog, and completely different GPTs will be “tagged in” for various use instances and desires.
Now you can deliver GPTs into any dialog in ChatGPT – merely sort @ and choose the GPT.
This lets you add related GPTs with the total context of the dialog. pic.twitter.com/Pjn5uIy9NF
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 30, 2024
ChatGPT is reportedly leaking usernames and passwords from customers’ non-public conversations
Screenshots offered to Ars Technica discovered that ChatGPT is potentially leaking unpublished research papers, login credentials and private information from its customers. An OpenAI consultant informed Ars Technica that the corporate was investigating the report.
ChatGPT is violating Europe’s privateness legal guidelines, Italian DPA tells OpenAI
OpenAI has been informed it’s suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of ChatGPT by Italy’s information safety authority. Particulars of the draft findings haven’t been disclosed, however in a response, OpenAI stated: “We wish our AI to study concerning the world, not about non-public people.”
OpenAI companions with Widespread Sense Media to collaborate on AI pointers
In an effort to win the belief of oldsters and policymakers, OpenAI announced it’s partnering with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI pointers and training supplies for fogeys, educators and younger adults. The group works to establish and decrease tech harms to younger folks and beforehand flagged ChatGPT as lacking in transparency and privacy.
OpenAI responds to Congressional Black Caucus about lack of range on its board
After a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the shortage of range in OpenAI’s board, the corporate responded. The response, signed by CEO Sam Altman and Chairman of the Board Bret Taylor, stated constructing an entire and numerous board was one of many firm’s high priorities and that it was working with an government search agency to help it to find expertise.
OpenAI drops costs and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
In a blog post, OpenAI introduced value drops for GPT-3.5’s API, with enter costs dropping to 50% and output by 25%, to $0.0005 per thousand tokens in, and $0.0015 per thousand tokens out. GPT-4 Turbo additionally received a brand new preview mannequin for API use, which incorporates an fascinating repair that aims to reduce “laziness” that customers have skilled.
Increasing the platform for @OpenAIDevs: new technology of embedding fashions, up to date GPT-4 Turbo, and decrease pricing on GPT-3.5 Turbo. https://t.co/7wzCLwB1ax
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 25, 2024
OpenAI bans developer of a bot impersonating a presidential candidate
OpenAI has suspended AI startup Delphi, which developed a bot impersonating Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) to assist bolster his presidential marketing campaign. The ban comes simply weeks after OpenAI printed a plan to fight election misinformation, which listed “chatbots impersonating candidates” as towards its coverage.
OpenAI pronounces partnership with Arizona State College
Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier, which the college plans to make use of to construct a personalised AI tutor, develop AI avatars, bolster their immediate engineering course and extra. It marks OpenAI’s first partnership with the next training establishment.
Winner of a literary prize reveals round 5% her novel was written by ChatGPT
After receiving the distinguished Akutagawa Prize for her novel The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, creator Rie Kudan admitted that around 5% of the book quoted ChatGPT-generated sentences “verbatim.” Curiously sufficient, the novel revolves round a futuristic world with a pervasive presence of AI.
Sam Altman teases video capabilities for ChatGPT and the discharge of GPT-5
In a dialog with Invoice Gates on the Unconfuse Me podcast, Sam Altman confirmed an upcoming launch of GPT-5 that shall be “absolutely multimodal with speech, picture, code, and video help.” Altman stated customers can count on to see GPT-5 drop someday in 2024.
OpenAI pronounces staff to construct ‘crowdsourced’ governance concepts into its fashions
OpenAI is forming a Collective Alignment team of researchers and engineers to create a system for amassing and “encoding” public enter on its fashions’ behaviors into OpenAI services and products. This comes as part of OpenAI’s public program to award grants to fund experiments in organising a “democratic course of” for figuring out the principles AI methods comply with.
OpenAI unveils plan to fight election misinformation
In a blog post, OpenAI announced customers won’t be allowed to construct functions for political campaigning and lobbying till the corporate works out how efficient their instruments are for “personalised persuasion.”
Customers will even be banned from creating chatbots that impersonate candidates or authorities establishments, and from utilizing OpenAI instruments to misrepresent the voting course of or in any other case discourage voting.
The corporate can also be testing out a software that detects DALL-E generated pictures and can incorporate entry to real-time information, with attribution, in ChatGPT.
Snapshot of how we’re getting ready for 2024’s worldwide elections:
• Working to forestall abuse, together with deceptive deepfakes
• Offering transparency on AI-generated content material
• Enhancing entry to authoritative voting datahttps://t.co/qsysYy5l0L— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 15, 2024
OpenAI modifications coverage to permit navy functions
In an unannounced update to its usage policy, OpenAI eliminated language beforehand prohibiting the usage of its merchandise for the needs of “navy and warfare.” In an extra assertion, OpenAI confirmed that the language was modified with a view to accommodate navy prospects and initiatives that don’t violate their ban on efforts to make use of their instruments to “hurt folks, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property.”
ChatGPT subscription aimed toward small groups debuts
Aptly called ChatGPT Team, the brand new plan gives a devoted workspace for groups of as much as 149 folks utilizing ChatGPT in addition to admin instruments for staff administration. Along with having access to GPT-4, GPT-4 with Imaginative and prescient and DALL-E3, ChatGPT Group lets groups construct and share GPTs for his or her enterprise wants.
OpenAI’s GPT retailer formally launches
After some forwards and backwards over the previous couple of months, OpenAI’s GPT Store is finally here. The function lives in a brand new tab within the ChatGPT internet shopper, and features a vary of GPTs developed each by OpenAI’s companions and the broader dev neighborhood.
To entry the GPT Retailer, customers have to be subscribed to certainly one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans — ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Group.
the GPT retailer is stay!https://t.co/AKg1mjlvo2
enjoyable hypothesis final evening about which GPTs shall be doing the perfect by the top of at this time.
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 10, 2024
Creating AI fashions can be “not possible” with out copyrighted supplies, OpenAI claims
Following a proposed ban on using news publications and books to train AI chatbots within the U.Okay., OpenAI submitted a plea to the Home of Lords communications and digital committee. OpenAI argued that it will be “not possible” to coach AI fashions with out utilizing copyrighted supplies, and that they imagine copyright regulation “doesn’t forbid coaching.”
OpenAI claims The New York Instances’ copyright lawsuit is with out advantage
OpenAI published a public response to The New York Instances’s lawsuit towards them and Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright regulation, claiming that the case is with out advantage.
In the response, OpenAI reiterates its view that coaching AI fashions utilizing publicly obtainable information from the online is honest use. It additionally makes the case that regurgitation is much less prone to happen with coaching information from a single supply and locations the onus on customers to “act responsibly.”
We construct AI to empower folks, together with journalists.
Our place on the @nytimes lawsuit:
• Coaching is honest use, however we offer an opt-out
• “Regurgitation” is a uncommon bug we’re driving to zero
• The New York Instances is just not telling the total storyhttps://t.co/S6fSaDsfKb— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 8, 2024
OpenAI’s app retailer for GPTs deliberate to launch subsequent week
After being delayed in December, OpenAI plans to launch its GPT Store someday within the coming week, in response to an e mail considered by TechCrunch. OpenAI says builders constructing GPTs should assessment the corporate’s up to date utilization insurance policies and GPT model pointers to make sure their GPTs are compliant earlier than they’re eligible for itemizing within the GPT Retailer. OpenAI’s replace notably didn’t embrace any data on the anticipated monetization alternatives for builders itemizing their apps on the storefront.
GPT Retailer launching subsequent week – OpenAI pic.twitter.com/I6mkZKtgZG
— Manish Singh (@refsrc) January 4, 2024
OpenAI strikes to shrink regulatory threat in EU round information privateness
In an e mail, OpenAI detailed an incoming update to its phrases, together with altering the OpenAI entity offering providers to EEA and Swiss residents to OpenAI Eire Restricted. The transfer seems to be meant to shrink its regulatory threat within the European Union, the place the corporate has been below scrutiny over ChatGPT’s impression on folks’s privateness.
FAQs:
What’s ChatGPT? How does it work?
ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that makes use of synthetic intelligence to generate textual content after a consumer enters a immediate, developed by tech startup OpenAI. The chatbot makes use of GPT-4, a big language mannequin that makes use of deep studying to provide human-like textual content.
When did ChatGPT get launched?
November 30, 2022 is when ChatGPT was launched for public use.
What’s the newest model of ChatGPT?
Each the free model of ChatGPT and the paid ChatGPT Plus are commonly up to date with new GPT fashions. The latest mannequin is GPT-4o.
Can I exploit ChatGPT without cost?
There’s a free model of ChatGPT that solely requires a sign-in along with the paid model, ChatGPT Plus.
Who makes use of ChatGPT?
Anybody can use ChatGPT! An increasing number of tech corporations and search engines are using the chatbot to automate textual content or shortly reply consumer questions/considerations.
What corporations use ChatGPT?
A number of enterprises make the most of ChatGPT, though others could limit the use of the AI-powered tool.
Most just lately, Microsoft announced at its 2023 Construct convention that it’s integrating it ChatGPT-based Bing expertise into Home windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D show startup Looking Glass utilizes ChatGPT to provide holograms you may talk with through the use of ChatGPT. And nonprofit group Solana officially integrated the chatbot into its community with a ChatGPT plug-in geared towards finish customers to assist onboard into the web3 area.
What does GPT imply in ChatGPT?
GPT stands for Generative Pre-Educated Transformer.
What’s the distinction between ChatGPT and a chatbot?
A chatbot will be any software program/system that holds dialogue with you/an individual however doesn’t essentially should be AI-powered. For instance, there are chatbots which can be rules-based within the sense that they’ll give canned responses to questions.
ChatGPT is AI-powered and makes use of LLM expertise to generate textual content after a immediate.
Can ChatGPT write essays?
Sure.
Can ChatGPT commit libel?
Due to the nature of how these models work, they don’t know or care whether or not one thing is true, solely that it appears to be like true. That’s an issue if you’re utilizing it to do your homework, certain, however when it accuses you of a criminal offense you didn’t commit, which will nicely at this level be libel.
We are going to see how handling troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the subsequent few months as tech and authorized specialists try to sort out the quickest transferring goal within the business.
Does ChatGPT have an app?
Sure, there is a free ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android customers.
What’s the ChatGPT character restrict?
It’s not documented wherever that ChatGPT has a personality restrict. Nonetheless, customers have famous that there are some character limitations after round 500 phrases.
Does ChatGPT have an API?
Sure, it was released March 1, 2023.
What are some pattern on a regular basis makes use of for ChatGPT?
On a regular basis examples embrace programming, scripts, e mail replies, listicles, weblog concepts, summarization, and so forth.
What are some superior makes use of for ChatGPT?
Superior use examples embrace debugging code, programming languages, scientific ideas, complicated drawback fixing, and so forth.
How good is ChatGPT at writing code?
It is dependent upon the character of this system. Whereas ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it will probably’t essentially program a whole app’s value of code. That’s as a result of ChatGPT lacks context consciousness — in different phrases, the generated code isn’t all the time acceptable for the precise context wherein it’s getting used.
Are you able to save a ChatGPT chat?
Sure. OpenAI permits customers to save lots of chats within the ChatGPT interface, saved within the sidebar of the display. There aren’t any built-in sharing options but.
Are there options to ChatGPT?
Sure. There are multiple AI-powered chatbot rivals reminiscent of Together, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, and builders are creating open source alternatives.
How does ChatGPT deal with information privateness?
OpenAI has stated that people in “sure jurisdictions” (such because the EU) can object to the processing of their private data by its AI fashions by filling out this form. This contains the flexibility to make requests for deletion of AI-generated references about you. Though OpenAI notes it could not grant each request because it should steadiness privateness requests towards freedom of expression “in accordance with relevant legal guidelines”.
The net kind for making a deletion of knowledge about you request is entitled “OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request”.
In its privateness coverage, the ChatGPT maker makes a passing acknowledgement of the objection necessities hooked up to counting on “reputable curiosity” (LI), pointing customers in direction of extra details about requesting an choose out — when it writes: “See here for directions on how one can choose out of our use of your data to coach our fashions.”
What controversies have surrounded ChatGPT?
Not too long ago, Discord introduced that it had built-in OpenAI’s expertise into its bot named Clyde the place two users tricked Clyde into providing them with instructions for making the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary combination napalm.
An Australian mayor has publicly introduced he may sue OpenAI for defamation resulting from ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in jail for bribery. This may be the primary defamation lawsuit towards the text-generating service.
CNET discovered itself within the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles below a mysterious byline utterly generated by AI. The non-public fairness firm that owns CNET, Purple Ventures, was accused of utilizing ChatGPT for website positioning farming, even when the data was incorrect.
A number of main college methods and schools, including New York City Public Schools, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and gadgets. They declare that the AI impedes the training course of by selling plagiarism and misinformation, a declare that not every educator agrees with.
There have additionally been instances of ChatGPT accusing individuals of false crimes.
The place can I discover examples of ChatGPT prompts?
A number of marketplaces host and supply ChatGPT prompts, both without cost or for a nominal payment. One is PromptBase. One other is ChatX. Extra launch daily.
Can ChatGPT be detected?
Poorly. A number of instruments declare to detect ChatGPT-generated textual content, however in our tests, they’re inconsistent at finest.
Are ChatGPT chats public?
No. However OpenAI recently disclosed a bug, since mounted, that uncovered the titles of some customers’ conversations to different folks on the service.
What lawsuits are there surrounding ChatGPT?
None particularly concentrating on ChatGPT. However OpenAI is involved in at the very least one lawsuit that has implications for AI methods educated on publicly obtainable information, which might contact on ChatGPT.
Are there points relating to plagiarism with ChatGPT?
Sure. Textual content-generating AI fashions like ChatGPT tend to regurgitate content material from their coaching information.
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