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OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct. 2, 2024, it announced that it had obtained US$6.6 billion in new funding from investors and that the business was worth an estimated $157 billion – making it only the second startup ever to be valued at over $100 billion. Unlike other big tech companies, OpenAI is a nonprofit with a for-profit subsidiary that is overseen by a nonprofit board of directors. Since its founding in 2015, OpenAI’s official mission has been “to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits al...... Read Full article on HadNews

The advancement of artificial intelligence continues to impress and astonish us with its capabilities. The latest example of this is the new AI video generation model called Kling, developed by Chinese company Kuaishou. Kling has been gaining attention for its ability to create incredibly lifelike videos up to 2 minutes long simply from text prompts. This technology has put OpenAI, a prominent player in the AI field, on high alert as Kling proves to be a worthy competitor to their upcoming Sora model. With its advanced features and open-access approach, Kling is paving the way for the future of AI video generation. This innovation not ...... Read Full article on HadNews

Last week, two big names in the artificial intelligence (AI) and wellness industries announced a collaboration to develop a “customised, hyper-personalised AI health coach that will be available as a mobile app” to “reverse the trend lines on chronic diseases”. Sam Altman (head of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT) and Arianna Huffington (a former media executive who runs a high-tech wellness company called Thrive Global) announced their new company, Thrive AI Health, in a Time magazine advertorial. Health is an appealing direction for an AI industry that has promised to transform civilisation, but whose huge growth of the past couple of years is be...... Read Full article on HadNews

Moderna, a leading biotechnology company, has recently announced a groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI to ramp up the development of life-saving treatments. By deploying ChatGPT Enterprise to their vast workforce, Moderna has seen a surge in productivity and innovation within their organization. One of the most impressive outcomes of this collaboration is the creation of customized versions of ChatGPT, including the pilot Dose ID GPT. This specialized tool utilizes advanced data analysis to evaluate and verify the optimal vaccine dose chosen by Moderna’s clinical study team. The integration of AI technology like ChatGPT has revolu...... Read Full article on HadNews

OpenAI has announced plans to create a successor to its current AI model, GPT-4. GPT-4 underpins OpenAI’s current products, such as the early face of generative AI ChatGPT, but in a blog post on May 28, the company confirmed that a new model is on the way. Specifically, the OpenAI Board has formed a Safety and Security Committee, led by directors Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, Nicole Seligman, and CEO Sam Altman. This committee will be “responsible for making recommendations to the full Board on critical safety and security decisions for OpenAI projects and operations”. The first task of the committee will be to evaluate and develop OpenA...... Read Full article on HadNews

OpenAI has removed one of the voices used by ChatGPT 4o after it was likened to the actress Scarlett Johansson and the character she played in the 2013 movie Her. The US artificial intelligence research firm is “working to pause” the voice of ‘Sky’ which responds to ChatGPT users, while it addresses the situation around the similarity to the Hollywood star. In Her, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his phone’s operating assistant, voiced by Johansson. OpenAI published a blog post setting out that “AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity’s distinctive voice” as well as denying Sky’s tones were an imitation of the...... Read Full article on HadNews

Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more natural engagement with AI. According to the demonstration video, it can have voice conversations with users in near real-time, exhibiting human-like personality and behaviour. This emphasis on personality is likely to be a point of contention. In OpenAI’s demos, GPT-4o sounds friendly, empathetic and engaging. It tells “spontaneous” jokes, giggles, flirts and even sings. The AI system also shows it can respond to users’ body language and emot...... Read Full article on HadNews

OpenAI is launching a new flagship generative AI model named GPT-4o, which will be introduced “iteratively” into the company’s developer and consumer products over the coming weeks. There had been speculation that a search engine would be rolled out but CEO Sam Altman denied the rumors. OpenAI’s CTO, Muri Murati, stated that GPT-4o offers “GPT-4-level” intelligence while improving the capabilities of GPT-4 in text, vision, and now audio. Murati stressed the growing complexity of these models and the goal of making interactions more natural and effortless, stating, “We want the experience of interaction to actually become more natural, ...... Read Full article on HadNews

OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o Spring Update Event: Everything Revealed in 2 Minutes OpenAI recently unveiled its latest flagship model, GPT-40, during the Spring Update Event. This new model boasts GP4-level intelligence, but with enhanced speed and improved capabilities across text, vision, and audio. The desktop app is now available for ChatGPT, allowing users to seamlessly integrate it into their workflow from anywhere. The aim of GPT-40 is to provide users with a natural and effortless interaction experience, focusing on collaboration rather than the user interface. This upgraded model enables native interactions across voice, text, and vision, o...... Read Full article on HadNews

OpenAI has announced that it will demo updates for its new AI chatbot and GPT-4 today (May 13) but stopped short of including the launch of GPT-5 or a search engine. Instead, CEO Sam Altman indicated there may be “some new stuff we think people will love feels like magic to me.” There had been speculation last week that OpenAI’s search app would combine the search engine capabilities of Microsoft Bing with ChatGPT to generate deeper search results with more context and additional information. not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love! feels like magic to me. monday 10am PT...... Read Full article on HadNews

Former Apple design lead Jony Ive and current Open AI CEO Sam Altman are sourcing funding for a new “artificial intelligence-powered personal device”. Sources speaking to The Information state that the duo are working together on the new device. Exact details are not yet known but it reportedly won’t look anything like a smartphone. Plans for this new venture have been underway since the fall of 2023 but now funding is being sought to bring it to reality. Already, the lofty circles that Ive and Altman come from within the tech world are gathering attention from some of the biggest names in technology investment. Ive and Altman seek bil...... Read Full article on HadNews

OpenAI continues to make waves in the world of artificial intelligence with their latest development of GPT-based agents for businesses. These custom models are tailored to specific industries, offering a new level of AI capabilities that can revolutionize how companies operate. In the video, Wes Roth dives into the evolution of AI models for specialized tasks, highlighting the importance of fine-tuning to balance general and specialized capabilities. He explores real-world applications of AI in business, showcasing how industries like legal, healthcare, and agriculture are benefiting from custom AI models. The future of AI in educatio...... Read Full article on HadNews

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has said that using the videos on the platform to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model would be a “clear violation” of YouTube’s terms and conditions after OpenAI’s CTO “didn’t know” whether the tool was trained on YouTube videos. In an interview with Bloomberg, Mohan made his first public statements on OpenAI’s Sora, which was announced earlier this year to much fanfare and excitement. “From a creator’s perspective, when a creator uploads their hard work to our platform, they have certain expectations. One of those expectations is that the terms of service is going to be abided by. It does not allow for t...... Read Full article on HadNews

DALL-E has confirmed an update to allow users to edit their creations on the artificial intelligence (AI) platform. OpenAI’s text-to-image model, now in its third generation, will provide image editing tools within ChatGPT on the web and mobile. As part of the update, preset style suggestions are offered to assist your imagery ideas. A key benefit found in DALL-E 3 is the seamless integration with ChatGPT meaning you only need to ask the latter what you want with a concise prompt and it will do the rest. The update to DALL-E takes this further with more functionality and options for users to enjoy and utilise the service. You can now ...... Read Full article on HadNews

The generative AI chatbot market is rapidly growing and while OpenAI’s ChatGPT might remain the most mainstream, there are many others on the market competing to be the very best for the general public, creatives businesses and anyone else looking to see how artificial intelligence can improve their day-to-day lives. But which one is the best? ChatGPT may have been the first to go mainstream, but is it the market leader? Which companies have entered the generative AI chatbot space with a product worthy of taking on OpenAI’s offering? Arguably the most popular on the market, other than ChatGPT, are Microsoft’s CoPilot, Claude by Anthropi...... Read Full article on HadNews

The makers of ChatGPT, OpenAI, have announced their latest artificial intelligence engine, which is for creating videos from text prompts. OpenAI already has Dall-E for generating static images, and now it has moved into videos to help complete its suite of AI tools for all creative purposes. Sora AI is not yet readily available to use by the public. Still, it has been made available to a select few whose job it is to test the security and stability of AI products, also known as ‘red teamers,’ in February 2024. But it is already causing a lot of talk on social media, with Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, demonstrating Sora’s abilitie...... Read Full article on HadNews

In the rapidly advancing world of robotics, the capabilities of artificial intelligence continue to astound and amaze. The recent video titled “GPT Gets a Body: OpenAI’s ‘AGI Robot’ SHOCKS EVERYONE” showcases the incredible progress being made in the field. From Boston Dynamics’ versatile robot that can manipulate objects to Tesla’s Gen 2 bot with tactile sensing capabilities, the future of robotics looks promising. The video delves into the development of humanoid robots like the figure one, which can now describe its visual experience, plan future actions, reflect on its memory, and explain its reasoning verbally. The integration of ...... Read Full article on HadNews

Elon Musk has indicated his artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Tesla billionaire was once closely associated with OpenAI as a co-founder, but he walked away years ago to follow his own path in AI development, with a bitter fallout ensuing. Musk has taken legal action against his former company and its incumbent CEO, Sam Altman, for allegedly reneging on its original purpose to build AI for the benefit of humanity and not for the pursuit of profit. In December 2023, Grok was rolled out to premium subscribers on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter,...... Read Full article on HadNews

Google’s Bard AI has just received a major upgrade, making it even more intelligent and versatile than before. With the ability to answer complex questions involving calculations, formulas, and even code, Bard is revolutionizing the AI chat bot landscape. This update, powered by the new Palm 2 language model, enhances Bard’s logical reasoning skills and mathematical capabilities, setting it apart from other AI chat bots on the market. The integration of traditional language model functionalities with code-based computation in Palm 2 allows Bard to generate responses that are both informative and conversational. Moreover, Palm 2 can per...... Read Full article on HadNews

When people refer to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, they may be referring more specifically to generative AI which is exploding in popularity and usage. What is generative AI? Generative AI is a term used to encompass deep-learning language models that generate text, images, videos, and other content using external prompts. They use the datasets they learn from to create various forms of content, ranging from short poems to long articles. The topic of generative AI came to the fore with the wide release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool, bringing generative AI to the general public at large. While this might have been the first form of gen...... Read Full article on HadNews