There may be no more important business leader these days than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman’s company kicked off the artificial intelligence (AI) boom with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, and since then it’s remained at the cutting edge of generative artificial intelligence. It’s received an estimated $13 billion in investments from Microsoft […]
OpenAI is reinstating chief executive Sam Altman to its board of directors and has “full confidence” in his leadership after the conclusion of an outside investigation into the company’s turmoil. OpenAI said on Friday that after an investigation into why the company abruptly fired Mr Altman in November, only to rehire him days later, it […]
There’s little question that artificial intelligence (AI) has been on a hot streak over the past year or so, and that trend shows little signs of slowing. It isn’t just average investors that are bullish on these developments. Billionaires, venture capital firms, and some of the world’s biggest tech companies have AI fever — and […]
OpenAI has hit back at accusations from Elon Musk that the ChatGPT maker betrayed its founding goals of benefiting humanity and chose to pursue profits, and vowed to have his lawsuit thrown out. The first comments from OpenAI since the Tesla chief executive began legal action last week have escalated the feud between the San […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “very happy” being married to software engineer Oliver Mulherin. Altman and Mulherin’s tied the knot few months ago, and the news leaked in January. Altman and Mulherin live in Napa, California, and said they want to have children soon. Sam Altman is enjoying married life. The OpenAI CEO […]
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits. In a lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court, billionaire Mr Musk said that when he bankrolled OpenAI’s creation, he secured an agreement with […]
The creators of the chatbot ChatGPT want to bring their artificial intelligence software to humanoid robots. The start-up Figure wants to use OpenAI to develop new AI models for its machines, which can walk upright and already perform complex movements with their mechanical hands. In January, Figure agreed with BMW to supply robots for use […]
The head of the ChatGPT developer OpenAI believes there will in future be more content created by artificial intelligence than by humans. Before this happens, society needs to prepare for the negative consequences of the AI boom, Sam Altman said at an event organised by chip giant Intel. Altman foresees potentially negative effects on elections […]
OpenAI has unveiled a new tool which can generate short videos based on text prompts. Called Sora, it is able to create videos up to a minute long based solely on a short text-based description of what the user wants to create. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, said Sora was being made available to safety […]
OpenAI made a huge splash this week with its text-to-photorealistic video AI called Sora. The company showed off some seriously impressive sample clips, from a couple walking through a snowy landscape to an airborne camera smoothly following a white vintage SUV as it makes its way up a dirt road. It certainly appears to be a […]
ChatGPT is to be given a memory and the ability to recall things users have previously discussed with it and details about them, as part of an update its developer says could make future chats “more helpful”. OpenAI said it was testing memory with a “small portion” of its userbase to “learn how useful it […]
Italian regulators have said they told OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated the European Union’s stringent data privacy rules. The country’s data protection authority, known as Garante, said it notified San Francisco-based OpenAI of breaches of the EU rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation. The watchdog started investigating ChatGPT last year, […]