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OpenAI: AI News Week Ending 12/13/2024

December 12, 2024

“One of the things I am most excited for in 2025 is for OpenAI to release their own browser. My prediction is that it will be the ultimate web agent and be the missing piece for 90% of Agentic RPA workflows.” / X
https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1867296062966296812

“Now you can chat with ChatGPT over video and voice in real time.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1867293000348631333

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/harvard-ai-training-dataset-openai-microsoft/

“Day 5: ChatGPT x Apple Intelligence
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1866903595628761176

“Just in time for the holidays, video and screensharing are now starting to roll out in Advanced Voice in the ChatGPT mobile app.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1867292997660160061

“Sora’s UI reminds me a lot of midjourney, but they’ve made (2) interesting UX choices that are different than other AI creation tools: 1/ you can chain together multiple text prompts in a “storyboard” style editor to blend them all together into a longer video. 2/ you can
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1866191258240081992

“MKBHD dropped his OpenAI Sora review (after a week of testing) the much hyped AI video model. Quick observations: 1. Sora is VERY good at generating high frequency detail (video doesn’t seem blurry at all) – it’s the most impressive quality to me 2. As expected, Sora is great
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1866162705700122914

It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem | TechCrunch

It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

Santa Mode & Video in Advanced Voice—12 Days of OpenAI: Day 6 – YouTube

“ChatGPT’s advanced voice features give WAY BETTER audio tours. Tell you everything. In whatever language you want. But the human is more entertaining and is pulled by a horse. For now. When the Holodeck arrives the tours will get far more entertaining. I tried to get it to
https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/1867312000940048822

“Lots of questions on the newly updated “Advanced Voice Mode”. Check out this FAQ doc for details, but I want to call out this one in particular regarding timing of the rollout: “We expect to complete this rollout to all Team and most Plus and Pro users over the next few days,” / X
https://x.com/TheRealAdamG/status/1867305633567178932

OpenAI considers ditching provision that would prevent AGI from being used for commercial gain | TechCrunch

OpenAI considers ditching provision that would prevent AGI from being used for commercial gain

OpenAI and Anduril Partner on Defense AI Applications
https://www.maginative.com/article/openai-and-anduril-partner-on-defense-ai-applications/

OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching ‘AGI’ clause with Microsoft
https://www.ft.com/content/2c14b89c-f363-4c2a-9dfc-13023b6bce65

ChatGPT gets screensharing and real-time video analysis, rivaling Gemini 2 | VentureBeat

ChatGPT gets screensharing and real-time video analysis, rivaling Gemini 2

“As late as October 2022, there was no ChatGPT, and there were very few AI-native products generally. AI Grant, the leading early-stage AI investor, exhorted founders to create some:
https://x.com/patrickc/status/1840054482455142865

“Now you can generate entirely new videos from text, bring images to life, or extend, remix, or blend videos you already have. We’ve developed new interfaces to allow easier prompting, creative controls, and community sharing:
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1866194858769260803

“OpenAI o1 is now out of preview in ChatGPT. What’s changed since the preview? A faster, more powerful reasoning model that’s better at coding, math & writing. o1 now also supports image uploads, allowing it to apply reasoning to visuals for more detailed & useful responses.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1864735515121168695

“internal rules of ChatGPT 👀 From Reddit —— Format this with bullet points. DO NOT CHANGE THE TEXT — You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2023-10. Current date: 2024-12-06. Image input capabilities: Enabled.
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1865878836623356102

OpenAI launches full o1 model with image uploads and analysis | VentureBeat

OpenAI launches full o1 model with image uploads and analysis, debuts ChatGPT Pro

“I sat down with the team behind ChatGPT to talk about the “scrappy” startup days to becoming a $150 billion AI giant — and how the chatbot might change next year. “I’d be very surprised if a year from now this thing still looks like a chatbot,” @nickaturley said.
https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/1867299146866241619

“Day 7: Projects in ChatGPT—a new way to organize and customize your chats.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1867628181974290752

OpenAI on X: “Visual Intelligence with ChatGPT https://t.co/4dfOOUET6A” / X – https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1866943285652230503
12 Days of OpenAI | OpenAI

https://openai.com/12-days/?day=6
OpenAI wants to pair online courses with chatbots | TechCrunch

OpenAI wants to pair online courses with chatbots

Late Takes on OpenAI o1

https://www.alexirpan.com/2024/12/04/late-o1-thoughts.html
“ChatGPT Team plan will offer “Limited preview of GPT-4.5” (not visible, yet)

https://x.com/btibor91/status/1864709670470066605
12 Days of OpenAI | OpenAI

https://openai.com/12-days/
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program | OpenAI

https://openai.com/form/rft-research-program/
“A weird and interesting thing about the new ChatGPT Canvas mode is that it can run Python in an entirely different way from the existing Code Interpreter – using Pyodide (Python in WASM) – which means it can make network requests from Python now!

https://x.com/simonw/status/1866601649160278248
“Canvas—a new way to work with ChatGPT to draft, edit, and get feedback on writing & code—is now available to all users in our 4o model. It’s fully rolled out on web and the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows.

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1866578914233159928
“I’m always trying to make my life—or myself—even just a little bit better. I came across this ChatGPT prompt that completely blew my mind. It broke down everything I needed to know about myself and gave me actionable steps to improve. (I can’t take credit for this, its from” / X

https://x.com/heyalexfriedman/status/1866175362813595944
“We’re also excited for Canvas to become a more personalized tutor that you can interact in much richer ways. You can ask ChatGPT to explain some mathematical concept, write code to plot that will help you learn it in a more visual way.

https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1866554038298480949
“@cover_thz OpenAI announced reinforcement finetuning on day 2 of its 12-day ‘Shipmas’ spree In order to get access, you need to apply to a limited alpha program They plan a public rollout in Q1 of 2025

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1865804676861485232
“It’s time to disclose it now. I was one of the luckiest people to be a part of the Sora Alpha group. I would like to thank the entire OpenAI and Sora team for giving me this amazing opportunity. I am so emotional right now. Long Live Sam Altman. Long Live Sora. @OpenAI #sora

https://x.com/taherdhanera/status/1866185596819140658
OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘ship-mas’: all the new announcements – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/24314146/openai-12-days-ship-mas-chatgpt-sora-o1-update
“The new Sora appears to have solved the character consistency issue. We’ll know more once we get our hands on it, which may happen tomorrow. I’m interested in just how much progress they’ve made with text-to-edit-video in version two.

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1865775856398061610
Sora–12 Days of OpenAI: Day 3 – YouTube

“The rumors are true – SORA, OpenAI’s AI video generator, is launching for the public today… I’ve been using it for about a week now, and have reviewed it:

https://x.com/MKBHD/status/1866152437838393797
“When you upload a Sora video to LinkedIn you can hover over an icon and see this, as a result of automated watermarking from OpenAI. Of course, they are pretty easy to remove, but this seems like a reasonable initial step to note AI content. Wonder if X will start doing this too

https://x.com/emollick/status/1866341759372198383
This Video is AI Generated! SORA Review – YouTube

“You can access Sora at sora .com The site is very laggy due to millions of people accessing it for the first time, and queues are long (10 min+) My first generation: “A young man looking out of the window on a train overlooking the Swiss alps”