Two former OpenAI researchers have joined Thinking Machines Lab, the new artificial intelligence venture launched by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former chief research officer, and Alec Radford, a key researcher behind the GPT technology, are now advising the startup, as per the company's official website.
Imagine confiding in a chatbot about your bad day, only to end up feeling more alone. New research from OpenAI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that while most people use ChatGPT for practical tasks, a small group of heavy users might be trading quick comfort for creeping loneliness—or even emotional dependency.
OpenAI has introduced a new developer tool called the Responses API, designed to simplify and enhance the creation of advanced AI agents. The tool, which replaces the Assistants API, aims to address key challenges developers face when building AI systems, such as managing multi-turn interactions, integrating hosted tools, and handling multiple data types like text, images, and audio.
OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with CoreWeave, a cloud services provider specialising in AI-focused GPU infrastructure which is backed by Nvidia, according to a recent report by Reuters.
Mira Murati, the former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer, has recently launched her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, assembling a team of 30 top researchers and engineers. About 20 of these hires are former OpenAI employees, with additional experts coming from companies such as Meta and Mistral.
DeepSeek's reliance on NVIDIA chips while highlighting a current dependency also underscores China's determination to overcome it.
Elon Musk has recently made a $97.4 billion offer to take control of OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, the bid was placed on Monday, just as OpenAI pushes to become a for-profit business—a move Musk says goes against its original mission of developing AI safely and openly.
Kakao owns an online bank, South Korea's largest taxi-hailing app and KakaoTalk
Artificial intelligence newcomer DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy
The competition in the world of artificial intelligence, or AI, is getting more intense day by day. Along with powerful models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, China's DeepSeeK AI is also gaining popularity. How is this new AI startup surprising the whole world? Let's find out in today's Star Explains.
Tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether a group linked to Chinese AI startup DeepSeek obtained data from OpenAI’s systems in an unauthorised manner. The allegations, reported by Bloomberg News, have added fuel to the fire in an already heated competition for dominance in artificial intelligence.
OpenAI has recently unveiled ChatGPT Gov, a version of its AI-powered chatbot platform tailored for U.S. government agencies. The launch comes as AI increasingly becomes a focal point of global competition, with DeepSeek making notable advancements in the field.
OpenAI has told an Indian court that removing the data used to train its ChatGPT AI model would go against US legal requirements, as per a recent report by Reuters. The case, brought by the Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI), accuses OpenAI of using ANI's content without permission to train its AI system and demands the deletion of any stored data.
Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the 'godfather of AI', has voiced strong opposition to OpenAI’s move to transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit company, as per a recent report by Business Insider.
OpenAI, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, announced on Friday that it plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation (PBC) - shifting to a for-profit company from its previous non-profit structure. Here's what they have planned.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool, an AI-powered browsing feature launched this month, is vulnerable to generating misleading summaries, according to a recent report by The Guardian.
OpenAI experienced an outage affecting its popular services, including ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer-facing API, beginning at around 12.30 a.m Bangladesh time on 27 December.
Italy's data protection authority, also known as Garante, announced on December 20 that it has fined OpenAI 15 million euros (around $15.58 million) following an investigation which was launched back in 2023, into privacy violations associated with the company's generative AI platform, ChatGPT.
As part of the company’s "ship-mas" campaign, OpenAI has recently introduced a new feature allowing users to call or message ChatGPT directly over the phone or WhatsApp.
