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iphone photo. a robot Olympian stands on the gold medal podium, wearing a gold medal with "GPT-4" emblazoned on it. --ar 5:3

OpenAI News: Week Ending 04/12/2024

April 12, 2024

iphone photo. a robot Olympian stands on the gold medal podium, wearing a gold medal with “GPT-4” emblazoned on it. –ar 5:3

“🔥Exciting news — GPT-4-Turbo has just reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Arena leaderboard again! Woah! We collect over 8K user votes from diverse domains and observe its strong coding & reasoning capability over others. Hats off to @OpenAI for this incredible launch! To offer https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1778555678174663100

“GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is now generally available in the API. Vision requests can now also use JSON mode and function calling. https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1777769463258988634

“Majorly improved GPT-4 Turbo model available now in the API and rolling out in ChatGPT.” / X – https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1777772582680301665

“Our new GPT-4 Turbo is now available to paid ChatGPT users. We’ve improved capabilities in writing, math, logical reasoning, and coding. Source: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1778574613813006610

“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive are reportedly in talks to raise up to $1B for their secretive AI-powered personal device company. Notably, the AI device will not look like a phone. More: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1777513848083218824

Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman Seeking Funding for Personal AI Device – MacRumors – https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/05/jony-ive-sam-altman-ai-device/

Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s AI Device Startup in Funding Talks With Emerson, Thrive — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jony-ive-and-sam-altmans-ai-device-startup-in-funding-talks-with-emerson-thrive

“@steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo More info: Leopold Aschenbrenner was part of OpenAI’s “superalignment” team and an ally of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. Pavel Izmailov also spent time on the AI safety team. In case you didn’t know, Sutskever was one of the primary figures in the 2023 ousting of Sam Altman https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1778602058657997090

“Side-by-side comparison between the latest version of gpt-4-turbo and the previous one, 0125-preview. Not only is the new version less verbose and it goes directly into code, but it also (rightfully so) decides to add a flag to download the highest quality video. Smart! 👨‍🏫 https://twitter.com/skirano/status/1778122305471705489

“Just in from a new report from The Information, @steph_palazzolo, and @erinkwoo: OpenAI has terminated researchers Leopold Aschenbrenner and Pavel Izmailov for allegedly leaking information outside of the company. The actual information leaked is currently unknown. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1778602024679940344

“Some coding benchmark results for our new GPT-4 Turbo:” / X – https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1778071427809431789

“GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is now generally available in the API. Vision requests can now also use JSON mode and function calling. https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1777769463258988634

“More reports are coming in about how much more performant the new GPT-4 model is Seems like there is a huge jump in multiple categories https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1778108344051572746

OpenAI’s Altman Pitches Global AI Coalition on Trip to Middle East – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/openai-s-altman-pitches-global-ai-coalition-on-trip-to-middle-east

OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-researchers-including-ally-of-sutskever-fired-for-alleged-leaking

Briefing: OpenAI Expands $86 Billion Tender Offer, Inviting Former Employees — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-expands-86-billion-tender-offer-inviting-former-employees

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