“Leading computer vision researchers Lucas Beyer (@giffmana), Alexander Kolesnikov (@__kolesnikov__), Xiaohua Zhai (@XiaohuaZhai) have left Google DeepMind to join OpenAI! They were behind recent SOTA vision approaches and open-source models like ViT, SigLIP, PaliGemma
https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1864217903232385348
“It’s official: Kate Rouch joins us as our first Chief Marketing Officer. Her experience across consumer and enterprise marketing will shape how we connect people to the transformative power of AI.
https://x.com/openainewsroom/status/1864030500702318858?s=46&t=1jy0Z0halhWLMgIjtDrwpw
Sam Altman Says Artificial General Intelligence Is on the Horizon – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000009858580/sam-altman-openai-dealbook.html
OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-hires-deepmind-zurich/
“Day 1 of the 12 days of OpenAI! 🎁 We’re launching o1, which for the first time combines multimodality with the new reasoning paradigm, in addition to being smarter and faster. We’re also launching the pro tier, a $200/mo plan for unlimited access to our models (including” / X
https://x.com/kevinweil/status/1864733082508820948
“we just launched two things: o1, the smartest model in the world. smarter, faster, and more features (eg multimodality) than o1-preview. live in chatgpt now, coming to api soon. chatgpt pro. $200/month. unlimited usage and even-smarter mode for using o1. more benefits to come!” / X
https://x.com/sama/status/1864736282276171810
“The full o1 is finally out! My personal favorite addition to o1 is multimodal reasoning. Truly great work from the multimodal researchers at OpenAI. I was pretty new to multimodal aspects and learned so much from them while working on o1! Information can exist in multiple forms” / X
https://x.com/hwchung27/status/1864764887165272190?s=46
OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas’ include Sora and new reasoning model – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24312352/openai-sora-o1-reasoning-12-days-shipmas
Anduril Partners with OpenAI to Advance U.S. Artificial Intelligence Leadership and Protect U.S. and Allied Forces | Anduril
https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-partners-with-openai-to-advance-u-s-artificial-intelligence-leadership-and-protect-u-s/
“Sam Altman just dropped some new ChatGPT numbers at the NYT Dealbook Summit: — 300M weekly active users — 1B messages sent daily — 1.3M US developers building on the platform But the bigger story was Sama’s AGI timeline: He thinks we could the first glimpses by 2025. His
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1864404295258615858
Sam Altman says AGI will ‘matter much less’ than people expect – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313130/sam-altman-openai-agi-lower-the-bar
“This was my last week at OpenAI after ~3.5 years. I worked on API safety and then transitioned to Policy Research where I worked closely with @Miles_Brundage on AI governance, frontier policy issues, and AGI readiness. As is tradition, here’s the message I shared on Slack:
https://x.com/RosieCampbell/status/1863017727063113803
Reimagining higher education with Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft Education Blog
How higher education is reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service
“openai is unbelievably back” / X
https://x.com/tszzl/status/1863882905422106851
“almost everyone will be best-served by our free tier or the $20/month plus tier. a small percentage of users want to use chatgpt a TON and hit rate limits, and want to pay more for more intelligence on really hard problems. the $200/month tier is good for them!” / X
https://x.com/sama/status/1864836360366174371
“Wait – is the new GPT-4o a smaller and less intelligent model? We have completed running our independent evals on OpenAI’s GPT-4o release yesterday and are consistently measuring materially lower eval scores than the August release of GPT-4o. GPT-4o (Nov) vs GPT-4o (Aug): ➤
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1859614633654616310
“Sam Altman says there is no scaling wall in AI, “look at the curve of progress and say, maybe I shouldn’t bet against an exponential like that”
https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1864410638455591152
“🎄🎅starting tomorrow at 10 am pacific, we are doing 12 days of openai. each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo, some big ones and some stocking stuffers. we’ve got some great stuff to share, hope you enjoy! merry christmas.” / X
https://x.com/sama/status/1864335461268754712
OpenAI o1 and o1 pro mode in ChatGPT — 12 Days of OpenAI: Day 1 – YouTube
“Day 2: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
https://x.com/openai/status/1865091561912164499?s=46&t=b7l37rB6wtbyAh6ah1NpZQ
“Making homework annoying to solve in ChatGPT by mentioning David Mayer.
https://x.com/goodside/status/1863441256208048239
“o1 is powerful but it’s not so powerful that the universe needs to send us a tsunami” / X
https://x.com/sama/status/1864762517446377563
“Today we previewed Reinforcement Fine-Tuning, a new model customization technique that enables organizations to build expert models for specific, complex tasks in domains such as coding, scientific research, or finance.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1865136373491208674
OpenAI blamed NYT for tech problem erasing evidence of copyright abuse – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/tech-problems-plague-openai-court-battles-judge-rejects-a-key-fair-use-defense/
“GUYS DO NOT PANICK: “Limited preview of GPT-4.5” GPT-4.5 is coming
https://x.com/scaling01/status/1864708868833411188?s=46
OpenAI o1 system card | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330666
“for extra clarity: o1 is available in our plus tier, for $20/month. with the new pro tier ($200/month), it can think even harder for the hardest problems. most users will be very happy with o1 in the plus tier!” / X
https://x.com/sama/status/1864738531249475623
OpenAI partners with defense company Anduril
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/04/openai-partners-with-defense-company-anduril.html
ChatGPT now has over 300 million weekly users – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313097/chatgpt-300-million-weekly-users
OpenAI gets $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank in tender offer
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/26/openai-gets-1point5-billion-investment-from-softbank-in-tender-offer.html
“OpenAI o1 pro is *significantly* better than I anticipated. This is the 1st time a model’s come out and been so good that it kind of shocked me. I screenshotted Coinbase and had 4 popular models write code to clone it in 1 shot. Guess which was o1 pro.
https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1865089975802646857
Prompt Injecting Your Way To Shell: OpenAI’s Containerized ChatGPT Environment | 0din.ai
https://0din.ai/blog/prompt-injecting-your-way-to-shell-openai-s-containerized-chatgpt-environment
OpenAI o1 System Card | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/openai-o1-system-card/
OpenAI accused of trying to profit off AI model inspection in court – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/openai-accused-of-trying-to-profit-off-ai-model-inspection-in-court/
Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sam Altman not being a fan | TechCrunch
Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sam Altman not being a fan
“ChatGPT refuses to say the name “David Mayer,” and no one knows why. If you try to get it to write the name, the chat immediately ends. People have attempted all sorts of things – ciphers, riddles, tricks – and nothing works.
https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1862910201113739328
“Was gpt-4o updated recently? it seems way smarter than it was a week ago.” / X
https://x.com/cognitivecompai/status/1863958091676426427
Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue | TechCrunch
Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue
“One of the other Secret Names that ChatGPT must not speak doesn’t know why he is on the list (and I think he would say if he knew). So probably not a privacy request. And it is only ChatGPT, not the API, so it isn’t baked into the AI. Some weird filter issue, then most likely?” / X
https://x.com/emollick/status/1863293305385046080
Elon Musk targets OpenAI’s for-profit transition in a new filing – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/30/24309697/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-for-profit-transition-preliminary-injunction
Major Canadian News Outlets Sue OpenAI In New Copyright Case – The New York Times
Trump Names David Sacks to Oversee Crypto and A.I. – The New York Times
“Earlier this year, OpenAI had this rule (pulled from WayBack machine) banning the use of its models for “military & warfare.” Today, it announced a deal w/defense contractor Andruil. OpenAI now says it won’t do: “offensive weapons.” We’ll see!
https://x.com/AASchapiro/status/1864470352081883174
