ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What began as a instrument to supercharge productiveness by writing essays and code with quick textual content prompts has developed right into a behemoth with 300 million weekly energetic customers.
2024 was a giant 12 months for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI providing, Apple Intelligence, the discharge of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video mannequin Sora.
OpenAI additionally confronted its share of inner drama, together with the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati. OpenAI has additionally been hit with lawsuits from Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers alleging copyright infringement, in addition to an injunction from Elon Musk to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit.
In 2025, OpenAI is battling the notion that it’s ceding floor within the AI race to Chinese rivals like DeepSeeokay. The firm has been making an attempt to shore up its relationship with Washington because it concurrently pursues an bold information middle venture, and because it reportedly lays the groundwork for one of many largest funding rounds in historical past.
Below, you’ll discover a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, beginning with the newest, which we’ve been updating all year long. If you’ve every other questions, take a look at our ChatGPT FAQ right here.
Timeline of the newest ChatGPT updates
March 2025
ChatGPT has upgraded its image-generation function
OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out a serious improve to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities: ChatGPT can now use the GPT-4o mannequin to generate and edit photos and images instantly. The function went dwell earlier this week in ChatGPT and Sora, OpenAI’s AI video-generation instrument, for subscribers of the corporate’s Pro plan, priced at $200 a month, and might be accessible quickly to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and builders utilizing the corporate’s API service. The firm’s CEO Sam Altman stated on Wednesday, nonetheless, that the discharge of the picture technology function to free customers could be delayed as a result of increased demand than the corporate anticipated.
OpenAI proclaims management updates
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief working officer, will lead the corporate’s world growth and handle company partnerships as CEO Sam Altman shifts his focus to analysis and merchandise, in accordance with a weblog publish from OpenAI. Lightcap, who beforehand labored with Altman at Y Combinator, joined the Microsoft-backed startup in 2018. OpenAI additionally stated Mark Chen would step into the expanded position of chief analysis officer, and Julia Villagra will tackle the position of chief folks officer.
OpenAI’s AI voice assistant now has superior function
OpenAI has up to date its AI voice assistant with improved chatting capabilities, in accordance with a video posted on Monday (March 24) to the corporate’s official media channels. The replace permits real-time conversations, and the AI assistant is alleged to be extra personable and interrupts customers much less typically. Users on ChatGPT’s free tier can now entry the brand new model of Advanced Voice Mode, whereas paying customers will obtain solutions which might be “extra direct, partaking, concise, particular, and inventive,” a spokesperson from OpenAI informed TechCrunch.
OpenAI, Meta in talks with Reliance in India
OpenAI and Meta have individually engaged in discussions with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries relating to potential collaborations to boost their AI providers within the nation, per a report by The Information. One key subject being mentioned is Reliance Jio distributing OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Reliance has proposed promoting OpenAI’s fashions to companies in India by an software programming interface (API) to allow them to incorporate AI into their operations. Meta additionally plans to bolster its presence in India by establishing a big 3GW information middle in Jamnagar, Gujarat. OpenAI, Meta, and Reliance haven’t but formally introduced these plans.
OpenAI faces privateness criticism in Europe for chatbot’s defamatory hallucinations
Noyb, a privateness rights advocacy group, is supporting a person in Norway who was shocked to find that ChatGPT was offering false details about him, stating that he had been discovered responsible of killing two of his kids and making an attempt to hurt the third. “The GDPR is evident. Personal information needs to be correct,” stated Joakim Söderberg, information safety lawyer at Noyb, in an announcement. “If it’s not, customers have the precise to have it modified to mirror the reality. Showing ChatGPT customers a tiny disclaimer that the chatbot could make errors clearly isn’t sufficient. You can’t simply unfold false data and in the long run add a small disclaimer saying that all the pieces you stated may not be true.”
OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI fashions
OpenAI has added new transcription and voice-generating AI fashions to its APIs: a text-to-speech mannequin, “gpt-4o-mini-tts,” that delivers extra nuanced and real looking sounding speech, in addition to two speech-to-text fashions referred to as “gpt-4o-transcribe” and “gpt-4o-mini-transcribe”. The firm claims they’re improved variations of what was already there and that they hallucinate much less.
OpenAI has launched o1-pro, a extra highly effective model of its o1
OpenAI has launched o1-pro in its developer API. OpenAI says its o1-pro makes use of extra computing than its o1 “reasoning” AI mannequin to ship “constantly higher responses.” It’s solely accessible to pick builders who’ve spent at the least $5 on OpenAI API providers. OpenAI costs $150 for each million tokens (about 750,000 phrases) enter into the mannequin and $600 for each million tokens the mannequin produces. It prices twice as a lot as OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 for enter and 10 occasions the value of normal o1.
OpenAI analysis lead Noam Brown thinks AI “reasoning” fashions might’ve arrived a long time in the past
Noam Brown, who heads AI reasoning analysis at OpenAI, thinks that sure kinds of AI fashions for “reasoning” might have been developed 20 years in the past if researchers had understood the right method and algorithms.
OpenAI says it has skilled an AI that’s “actually good” at artistic writing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated, in a publish on X, that the corporate has skilled a “new mannequin” that’s “actually good” at artistic writing. He posted a prolonged pattern from the mannequin given the immediate “Please write a metafictional literary quick story about AI and grief.” OpenAI has not extensively explored the usage of AI for writing fiction. The firm has largely focused on challenges in inflexible, predictable areas comparable to math and programming. And it seems that it may not be that nice at artistic writing in any respect.
we skilled a brand new mannequin that’s good at artistic writing (undecided but how/when it’s going to get launched). that is the primary time i’ve been actually struck by one thing written by AI; it received the vibe of metafiction so proper.
PROMPT:
Please write a metafictional literary quick story…
— Sam Altman (@sama) March 11, 2025
OpenAI launches new instruments to assist companies construct AI brokers
OpenAI rolled out new instruments designed to assist builders and companies construct AI brokers — automated methods that may independently accomplish duties — utilizing the corporate’s personal AI fashions and frameworks. The instruments are a part of OpenAI’s new Responses API, which permits enterprises to develop personalized AI brokers that may carry out internet searches, scan by firm information, and navigate web sites, just like OpenAI’s Operator product. The Responses API successfully replaces OpenAI’s Assistants API, which the corporate plans to discontinue within the first half of 2026.
OpenAI reportedly plans to cost as much as $20,000 a month for specialised AI ‘brokers’
OpenAI intends to launch a number of “agent” merchandise tailor-made for various functions, together with sorting and rating gross sales leads and software program engineering, in accordance with a report from The Information. One, a “high-income data employee” agent, will reportedly be priced at $2,000 a month. Another, a software program developer agent, is alleged to price $10,000 a month. The most costly rumored brokers, that are stated to be aimed toward supporting “PhD-level analysis,” are anticipated to price $20,000 per 30 days. The jaw-dropping determine is indicative of how a lot money OpenAI wants proper now: The firm misplaced roughly $5 billion final 12 months after paying for prices associated to operating its providers and different bills. It’s unclear when these agentic instruments would possibly launch or which prospects might be eligible to purchase them.
ChatGPT can instantly edit your code
The newest model of the macOS ChatGPT app permits customers to edit code instantly in supported developer instruments, together with Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers can use the function now, and the corporate plans to roll it out to extra customers like Enterprise, Edu, and free customers.
ChatGPT’s weekly energetic customers doubled in lower than 6 months, because of new releases
According to a brand new report from VC agency Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT, skilled strong development within the second half of 2024. It took ChatGPT 9 months to extend its weekly energetic customers from 100 million in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, nevertheless it solely took lower than six months to double that quantity as soon as extra, in accordance with the report. ChatGPT’s weekly energetic customers elevated to 300 million by December 2024 and 400 million by February 2025. ChatGPT has skilled important development just lately because of the launch of latest fashions and options, comparable to GPT-4o, with multimodal capabilities. ChatGPT utilization spiked from April to May 2024, shortly after that mannequin’s launch.
February 2025
OpenAI cancels its o3 AI mannequin in favor of a ‘unified’ next-gen launch
OpenAI has successfully canceled the discharge of o3 in favor of what CEO Sam Altman is asking a “simplified” product providing. In a publish on X, Altman stated that, within the coming months, OpenAI will launch a mannequin referred to as GPT-5 that “integrates quite a lot of [OpenAI’s] expertise,” together with o3, in ChatGPT and its API. As a results of that roadmap resolution, OpenAI not plans to launch o3 as a standalone mannequin.
ChatGPT is probably not as power-hungry as as soon as assumed
A generally cited stat is that ChatGPT requires round 3 watt-hours of energy to reply a single query. Using OpenAI’s newest default mannequin for ChatGPT, GPT-4o, as a reference, nonprofit AI analysis institute Epoch AI discovered the common ChatGPT question consumes round 0.3 watt-hours. However, the evaluation doesn’t take into account the extra power prices incurred by ChatGPT with options like picture technology or enter processing.
OpenAI now reveals extra of its o3-mini mannequin’s thought course of
In response to strain from rivals like DeepSeeokay, OpenAI is altering the way in which its o3-mini mannequin communicates its step-by-step “thought” course of. ChatGPT customers will see an up to date “chain of thought” that exhibits extra of the mannequin’s “reasoning” steps and the way it arrived at solutions to questions.
You can now use ChatGPT internet search with out logging in
OpenAI is now permitting anybody to make use of ChatGPT internet search with out having to log in. While OpenAI had beforehand allowed customers to ask ChatGPT questions with out signing in, responses have been restricted to the chatbot’s final coaching replace. This solely applies by ChatGPT.com, nonetheless. To use ChatGPT in any kind by the native cellular app, you’ll nonetheless have to be logged in.
OpenAI unveils a brand new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep analysis’
OpenAI introduced a brand new AI “agent” referred to as deep analysis that’s designed to assist folks conduct in-depth, complicated analysis utilizing ChatGPT. OpenAI says the “agent” is meant for cases the place you don’t simply need a fast reply or abstract, however as a substitute have to assiduously take into account data from a number of web sites and different sources.
February 2025
OpenAI used a subreddit to check AI persuasion
OpenAI used the subreddit r/ChangeMyView to measure the persuasive talents of its AI reasoning fashions. OpenAI says it collects consumer posts from the subreddit and asks its AI fashions to put in writing replies, in a closed setting, that may change the Reddit consumer’s thoughts on a topic. The firm then exhibits the responses to testers, who assess how persuasive the argument is, and eventually OpenAI compares the AI fashions’ responses to human replies for that very same publish.
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its newest ‘reasoning’ mannequin
OpenAI launched a brand new AI “reasoning” mannequin, o3-mini, the latest within the firm’s o household of fashions. OpenAI first previewed the mannequin in December alongside a extra succesful system referred to as o3. OpenAI is pitching its new mannequin as each “highly effective” and “inexpensive.”
ChatGPT’s cellular customers are 85% male, report says
A brand new report from app analytics agency Appfigures discovered that over half of ChatGPT’s cellular customers are underneath age 25, with customers between ages 50 and 64 making up the second largest age demographic. The gender hole amongst ChatGPT customers is much more important. Appfigures estimates that throughout age teams, males make up 84.5% of all customers.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for US authorities companies
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Gov designed to offer U.S. authorities companies an extra technique to entry the tech. ChatGPT Gov contains most of the capabilities present in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Gov permits companies to extra simply handle their very own safety, privateness, and compliance, and will expedite inner authorization of OpenAI’s instruments for the dealing with of private delicate information.
More teenagers report utilizing ChatGPT for schoolwork, regardless of the tech’s faults
Younger Gen Zers are embracing ChatGPT, for schoolwork, in accordance with a brand new survey by the Pew Research Center. In a follow-up to its 2023 ballot on ChatGPT utilization amongst younger folks, Pew requested ~1,400 U.S.-based teenagers ages 13 to 17 whether or not they’ve used ChatGPT for homework or different school-related assignments. Twenty-six p.c stated that they’d, double the quantity two years in the past. Just over half of teenagers responding to the ballot stated they assume it’s acceptable to make use of ChatGPT for researching new topics. But contemplating the methods ChatGPT can fall quick, the outcomes are presumably trigger for alarm.
OpenAI says it could retailer deleted Operator information for as much as 90 days
OpenAI says that it’d retailer chats and related screenshots from prospects who use Operator, the corporate’s AI “agent” instrument, for as much as 90 days — even after a consumer manually deletes them. While OpenAI has an identical deleted information retention coverage for ChatGPT, the retention interval for ChatGPT is just 30 days, which is 60 days shorter than Operator’s.
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs duties autonomously
OpenAI is launching a analysis preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that may take management of an online browser and independently carry out sure actions. Operator guarantees to automate duties comparable to reserving journey lodging, making restaurant reservations, and procuring on-line.
OpenAI might preview its agent instrument for customers on the $200-per-month Pro plan
Operator, OpenAI’s agent instrument, could possibly be launched sooner relatively than later. Changes to ChatGPT’s code base recommend that Operator might be accessible as an early analysis preview to customers on the $200 Pro subscription plan. The modifications aren’t but publicly seen, however a consumer on X who goes by Choi noticed these updates in ChatGPT’s client-side code. TechCrunch individually recognized the identical references to Operator on OpenAI’s web site.
OpenAI exams telephone number-only ChatGPT signups
OpenAI has begun testing a function that lets new ChatGPT customers join with solely a telephone quantity — no e-mail required. The function is at the moment in beta within the U.S. and India. However, customers who create an account utilizing their quantity can’t improve to certainly one of OpenAI’s paid plans with out verifying their account by way of an e-mail. Multi-factor authentication additionally isn’t supported with out a legitimate e-mail.
ChatGPT now permits you to schedule reminders and recurring duties
ChatGPT’s new beta function, referred to as duties, permits customers to set easy reminders. For instance, you may ask ChatGPT to remind you when your passport expires in six months, and the AI assistant will comply with up with a push notification on no matter platform you’ve duties enabled. The function will begin rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro customers across the globe this week.
New ChatGPT function lets customers assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’
OpenAI is introducing a brand new method for customers to customise their interactions with ChatGPT. Some customers discovered they’ll specify a most well-liked title or nickname and “traits” they’d just like the chatbot to have. OpenAI suggests traits like “Chatty,” “Encouraging,” and “Gen Z.” However, some customers reported that the brand new choices have disappeared, so it’s attainable they went dwell prematurely.
December 2024
ChatGPT Search might be tricked into deceptive customers, new analysis reveals
ChatGPT Search might be fooled into producing fully deceptive summaries, The Guardian has discovered. They discovered ChatGPT could possibly be prompted to disregard damaging evaluations and generate “fully constructive” summaries by inserting hidden textual content into web sites it created and that ChatGPT Search is also made to spit out malicious code utilizing this methodology.
Microsoft and OpenAI reportedly have a finance-centric definition of AGI
Microsoft and OpenAI have a really particular, inner definition of AGI based mostly on the startup’s income, in accordance with a brand new report from The Information. The two corporations reportedly signed an settlement stating OpenAI has solely achieved AGI when it develops AI methods that may generate at the least $100 billion in revenue, which is way from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many would anticipate.
OpenAI skilled o1 and o3 to ‘assume’ about its security coverage
OpenAI launched new analysis outlining the corporate’s method to make sure AI reasoning fashions keep aligned with the values of their human builders. The startup used “deliberative alignment” to make o1 and o3 “assume” about OpenAI’s security coverage. According to OpenAI’s analysis, the strategy decreased the speed at which o1 answered “unsafe” questions whereas bettering its means to reply benign ones.
OpenAI proclaims new o3 reasoning fashions
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced the successors to its o1 reasoning mannequin household: o3 and o3-mini. The fashions will not be extensively accessible but, however security researchers can join a preview. The reveal marks the tip of the “12 Days of OpenAI” occasion, which noticed bulletins for real-time imaginative and prescient capabilities, ChatGPT Search, and even a Santa voice for ChatGPT.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landline
In an effort to make ChatGPT accessible to as many individuals as attainable, OpenAI introduced a 1-800 quantity to name the chatbot — even from a landline or a flip telephone. Users can name 1-800-CHATGPT, and ChatGPT will reply to your queries in an expertise that is kind of similar to Advanced Voice Mode — minus the multimodality.
OpenAI is providing quarter-hour of free calling for U.S. customers. The firm notes that normal provider charges might apply.
OpenAI brings its ChatGPT Search to extra customers
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Search to free, logged in customers. Search provides ChatGPT the flexibility to entry real-time data on the net to raised reply your queries, however was solely accessible for paid customers when it launched in October. Not solely is Search accessible now totally free customers, nevertheless it’s additionally been built-in into Advanced Voice Mode.
OpenAI blames huge ChatGPT outage on a ‘new telemetry service’
OpenAI is blaming one of many longest outages in its historical past on a “new telemetry service” gone awry. OpenAI wrote in a postmortem that the outage wasn’t brought on by a safety incident or current product launch, however by a telemetry service it deployed to gather Kubernetes metrics.
You could make ChatGPT sound like Santa for a restricted time
OpenAI introduced that ChatGPT customers might entry a brand new “Santa Mode” voice throughout December. The function permits customers to talk with ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, however with a Christmas twist. The voice sounds, effectively, “merry and brilliant,” as OpenAI described it. Think boomy, jolly — roughly like each Santa you’ve ever heard.
OpenAI provides imaginative and prescient to Advanced Voice Mode
OpenAI launched the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed practically seven months in the past. ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers can use the app to level their telephones at objects and have ChatGPT reply in near-real-time. The function also can perceive what’s on a tool’s display screen by display screen sharing.
There’s extra to return from OpenAI by December 23. Tune in to our dwell weblog to remain up to date.
ChatGPT and Sora hit with a serious outage
ChatGPT and Sora each skilled a serious outage Wednesday. Though customers suspected the outage was because of the rollout of ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence, OpenAI developer neighborhood lead Edwin Arbus denied it in a publish on X, saying the “outage was unrelated to 12 Days of OpenAI or Apple Intelligence. We made a config change that induced many servers to turn out to be unavailable.”
Canvas rolls out to everybody
Canvas, OpenAI’s collaboration-focused interface for writing and code initiatives, is now rolling out to all customers after being in beta for ChatGPT Plus members since October 2024. The firm additionally introduced the flexibility to combine Python code inside Canvas in addition to bringing Canvas to customized GPTs.
OpenAI pauses Sora sign-ups as a result of excessive demand
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that as a result of increased than anticipated demand, they’re pausing new sign-ups for its video generator Sora and that video generations might be slower in the interim. The firm launched Sora as a part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” occasion following practically a 12 months of teasing the product.
OpenAI releases Sora for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers
OpenAI has lastly launched its textual content to video mannequin, Sora. The mannequin can generate movies as much as 20 seconds lengthy in 1080p based mostly on textual content prompts or uploaded photos, and might be “remixed” by further consumer prompts. Sora is out there beginning at the moment to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers (besides within the EU).
In Monday’s “12 Days of OpenAI” livestream, CEO Sam Altman stated that ChatGPT Plus members will get 50 video generations a month, whereas ChatGPT Pro customers will get “limitless” generations of their “sluggish queue mode” and 500 “regular” generations per 30 days.
There are nonetheless extra reveals to return from OpenAI by December 23. Tune in to our dwell weblog to remain up to date.
OpenAI launches $200 month-to-month ChatGPT Pro subscription — and full model of o1
On day certainly one of its 12 Days of OpenAI occasion, the corporate introduced a brand new — and costly — subscription plan. ChatGPT Pro is a $200-per-month tier that gives limitless entry to all of OpenAI’s fashions, together with the complete model of its o1 “reasoning” mannequin.
The full model of o1, which was launched as a preview in September, can now motive about picture uploads and has been skilled to be “extra concise in its considering” to enhance response occasions.
Over the subsequent few weeks, we’ll be updating all of the information from OpenAI because it occurs on our dwell weblog. Follow together with us!
OpenAI proclaims 12 days of reveals for the vacations
OpenAI introduced “12 Days of OpenAI,” which is able to function livestreams each weekday beginning December 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Each day’s stream is alleged to incorporate both a product launch or a demo in various sizes.
ChatGPT surpasses 300M weekly energetic customers, Sam Altman says
At the New York Times’ Dealbook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that ChatGPT has surpassed 300 million weekly energetic customers. The milestone comes only a few months after the chatbot hit 200 million weekly energetic customers in August 2024 and simply over a 12 months after reaching 100 million weekly energetic customers in November 2023.
November 2024
Users found the title ‘David Mayer’ crashed ChatGPT
ChatGPT customers found an fascinating phenomenon: the favored chatbot refused to reply questions requested a few “David Mayer,” and asking it to take action induced it to freeze up immediately. While the unusual habits spawned conspiracy theories, and a slew of different names being impacted, a way more strange motive could also be on the coronary heart of it: digital privateness requests.
Ads may be headed to ChatGPT
OpenAI is toying with the concept of stepping into advertisements. CFO Sarah Friar informed the Financial Times it’s weighing an advertisements enterprise mannequin, with plans to be “considerate” about when and the place advertisements seem — although she later burdened that the corporate has “no energetic plans to pursue promoting.” Still, the exploration might increase eyebrows on condition that Sam Altman just lately stated advertisements could be a “final resort.”
Canadian information corporations sue OpenAI
A gaggle of Canadian media corporations, together with the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI. The corporations behind the go well with stated that OpenAI infringed their copyrights and are searching for to win financial damages — and ban OpenAI from making additional use of their work.
GPT-4o will get an improve
OpenAI introduced that its GPT-4o mannequin has been up to date to function extra “pure” and “partaking” artistic writing talents in addition to extra thorough responses and insights when accessing information uploaded by customers.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode to the online
ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode function is increasing to the online, permitting customers to speak to the chatbot by their browser. The conversational function is rolling out to ChatGPT’s paying Plus, Enterprise, Teams, or Edu subscribers.
ChatGPT can now learn a few of your Mac’s desktop apps
OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now learn code in a handful of developer-focused coding apps, comparable to VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 — that means that builders will not have to repeat and paste their code into ChatGPT. When the function is enabled, OpenAI will routinely ship the part of code you’re engaged on by its chatbot as context, alongside your immediate.
OpenAI loses one other lead security researcher
Lilian Weng introduced on X that she is departing OpenAI. Weng served as VP of analysis and security since August, and earlier than that was the top of OpenAI’s security methods workforce. It’s the newest in an extended string of AI security researchers,coverage researchers, and different executives who’ve exited the corporate within the final 12 months.
ChatGPT informed 2M folks to get their election information elsewhere
OpenAI said that it informed round 2 million customers of ChatGPT to go elsewhere for details about the 2024 U.S. election, and as a substitute really useful trusted information sources like Reuters and the Associated Press.
In a weblog publish, OpenAI stated that ChatGPT despatched roughly 1,000,000 folks to CanIVote.org once they requested questions particular to voting within the lead-up to the election and rejected round 250,000 requests to generate photos of the candidates over the identical interval.
OpenAI acquires Chat.com
Adding to its assortment of high-profile domains, Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. Last 12 months, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of many high two all-time publicly reported area gross sales — although OpenAI declined to state how a lot it paid for it.
Meta’s former {hardware} lead for Orion is becoming a member of OpenAI
The former head of Meta’s augmented actuality glasses efforts is becoming a member of OpenAI to guide robotics and shopper {hardware}. Kalinowski is a {hardware} govt who started main Meta’s AR glasses workforce in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the spectacular augmented actuality prototype that Meta just lately confirmed off at its annual Connect convention.
Apple customers will quickly be capable to improve to ChatGPT Plus within the Settings app
Apple is together with an choice to improve to ChatGPT Plus inside its Settings app, in accordance with an replace to the iOS 18.2 beta noticed by 9to5Mac. This will give Apple customers a direct route to enroll in OpenAI’s premium subscription plan, which prices $20 a month.
October 2024
Sam Altman says an absence of compute capability is delaying product releases
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted {that a} lack of compute capability is one main issue stopping the corporate from transport merchandise as typically because it’d like, together with the imaginative and prescient capabilities for Advanced Voice Mode first teased in May. Altman additionally indicated that the subsequent main launch of DALL-E, OpenAI’s picture generator, has no launch timeline, and that Sora, OpenAI’s video-generating instrument, has additionally been held again.
Altman additionally admitted to utilizing ChatGPT “generally” to reply questions all through the AMA.
OpenAI launches its Google search challenger
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer time. Powered by a fine-tuned model of OpenAI’s GPT-4o mannequin, ChatGPT Search serves up data and images from the online together with hyperlinks to related sources, at which level you may ask follow-up inquiries to refine an ongoing search.
Advanced Voice Mode involves Mac and PC
OpenAI has rolled out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT’s desktop apps for macOS and Windows. For Mac customers, that implies that each ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode can coexist with Siri on the identical gadget, main the way in which for ChatGPT’s Apple Intelligence integration.
OpenAI is reportedly planning to construct its first AI chip
Reuters experiences that OpenAI is working with TSMC and Broadcom to construct an in-house AI chip, which might arrive as quickly as 2026. It seems, at the least for now, the corporate has deserted plans to determine a community of factories for chip manufacturing and is as a substitute specializing in in-house chip design.
You can now search by your ChatGPT historical past
OpenAI introduced it’s rolling out a function that enables customers to look by their ChatGPT chat histories on the net. The new function will let customers convey up an outdated chat to recollect one thing or decide again up a chat proper the place it was left off.
ChatGPT rolls out with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 replace
With the discharge of iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence options powered by ChatGPT are actually accessible to customers. The ChatGPT options embody built-in writing instruments, picture cleanup, article summaries, and a typing enter for the redesigned Siri expertise.
OpenAI says it gained’t launch a mannequin referred to as Orion this 12 months
OpenAI denied experiences that it’s desiring to launch an AI mannequin, code-named Orion, by December of this 12 months. An OpenAI spokesperson informed TechCrunch that they “don’t have plans to launch a mannequin code-named Orion this 12 months,” however that leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.
ChatGPT involves Windows
OpenAI has begun previewing a devoted Windows app for ChatGPT. The firm says the app is an early model and is at the moment solely accessible to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu customers with a “full expertise” set to return later this 12 months.
OpenAI inks new content material cope with Hearst
OpenAI struck a content material cope with Hearst, the newspaper and journal writer identified for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others. The partnership will permit OpenAI to floor tales from Hearst publications with citations and direct hyperlinks.
ChatGPT has a brand new ‘Canvas’ interface for writing and coding initiatives
OpenAI launched a brand new technique to work together with ChatGPT referred to as “Canvas.” The canvas workspace permits for customers to generate writing or code, then spotlight sections of the work to have the mannequin edit. Canvas is rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Teams, with a rollout to return to Enterprise and Edu tier customers subsequent week.
OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B
OpenAI has closed the most important VC spherical of all time. The startup introduced it raised $6.6 billion in a funding spherical that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by earlier investor Thrive Capital, the brand new money brings OpenAI’s complete raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase.
Dev Day brings Realtime API to AI app builders
At the primary of its 2024 Dev Day occasions, OpenAI introduced a brand new API instrument that may let builders construct practically real-time, speech-to-speech experiences of their apps, with the selection of utilizing six voices supplied by OpenAI. These voices are distinct from these supplied for ChatGPT, and builders can’t use third social gathering voices, with the intention to forestall copyright points.
September 2024
OpenAI would possibly increase the value of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029
OpenAI is planning to boost the value of particular person ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per 30 days to $22 per 30 days by the tip of the 12 months, in accordance with a report from The New York Times. The report notes {that a} steeper enhance might come over the subsequent 5 years; by 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll cost $44 per 30 days for ChatGPT Plus.
Mira Murati exists OpenAI
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati introduced that she is leaving the corporate after greater than six years. Hours after the announcement, OpenAI’s chief analysis officer, Bob McGrew, and a analysis VP, Barret Zoph, additionally left the corporate. CEO Sam Altman revealed the 2 newest resignations in a publish on X, together with management transition plans.
OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with extra voices and a brand new look
After a delay, OpenAI is lastly rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to an expanded set of ChatGPT’s paying prospects. AVM can also be getting a revamped design — the function is now represented by a blue animated sphere as a substitute of the animated black dots that have been offered again in May. OpenAI is highlighting enhancements in conversational pace, accents in overseas languages, and 5 new voices as a part of the rollout.
YouTuber finds a technique to run ChatGPT on a graphing calculator
A video from YouTube creator ChromaLock showcased the best way to modify a TI-84 graphing calculator in order that it will probably connect with the web and entry ChatGPT, touting it because the “final dishonest gadget.” As demonstrated within the video, it’s a reasonably sophisticated course of for the common highschool scholar to comply with — nevertheless it would possibly stoke extra considerations from lecturers concerning the ongoing considerations about ChatGPT and dishonest in colleges.
OpenAI proclaims OpenAI o1, a brand new mannequin that may fact-check itself
OpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also referred to as “Strawberry.” The assortment of fashions can be found in ChatGPT and by way of OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1 mini. The firm claims that o1 can extra successfully motive by math and science and fact-check itself by spending extra time contemplating all elements of a command or query.
Unlike ChatGPT, o1 can’t browse the online or analyze information but, is rate-limited and costly in comparison with different fashions. OpenAI says it plans to convey o1-mini entry to all free customers of ChatGPT, however hasn’t set a launch date.
A hacker was in a position to trick ChatGPT into giving directions on the best way to make bombs
An artist and hacker discovered a technique to jailbreak ChatGPT to provide directions for making highly effective explosives, a request that the chatbot usually refuses. An explosives knowledgeable who reviewed the chatbot’s output informed TechCrunch that the directions could possibly be used to make a detonatable product and was too delicate to be launched.
OpenAI reaches 1 million paid customers of its company choices
OpenAI introduced it has surpassed 1 million paid customers for its variations of ChatGPT meant for companies, together with ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise and its academic providing, ChatGPT Edu. The firm stated that just about half of OpenAI’s company customers are based mostly within the US.
Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT assistant to the US
Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to automobiles within the United States. Its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant is an AI chatbot based mostly on Cerence’s Chat Pro product and a LLM from OpenAI and can start rolling out on September 6 with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI fashions.
August 2024
OpenAI inks content material cope with Condé Nast
As a part of the brand new deal, OpenAI will floor tales from Condé Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the “multi-year” deal will contain cost from OpenAI in some kind and a Condé Nast spokesperson informed TechCrunch that OpenAI could have permission to coach on Condé Nast content material.
Our first impressions of ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode
TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff has been taking part in round with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, in what he describes as “essentially the most convincing style I’ve had of an AI-powered future but.” Compared to Siri or Alexa, Advanced Voice Mode stands out with quicker response occasions, distinctive solutions and the flexibility to reply complicated questions. But the function falls quick as an efficient alternative for digital assistants.
OpenAI shuts down election affect operation that used ChatGPT
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian affect operation that was producing content material concerning the U.S. presidential election. OpenAI recognized 5 web site fronts presenting as each progressive and conservative information shops that used ChatGPT to draft a number of long-form articles, although it doesn’t appear that it reached a lot of an viewers.
OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some bizarre stuff generally
OpenAI has discovered that GPT-4o, which powers the just lately launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, can behave in unusual methods. In a brand new “crimson teaming” report, OpenAI reveals a few of GPT-4o’s weirder quirks, like mimicking the voice of the particular person chatting with it or randomly shouting in the midst of a dialog.
ChatGPT’s cellular app experiences its largest month but
After a giant bounce following the discharge of OpenAI’s new GPT-4o “omni” mannequin, the cellular model of ChatGPT has now seen its largest month of income but. The app pulled in $28 million in internet income from the App Store and Google Play in July, in accordance with information supplied by app intelligence agency Appfigures.
OpenAI might doubtlessly catch college students who cheat with ChatGPT
OpenAI has constructed a watermarking instrument that would doubtlessly catch college students who cheat through the use of ChatGPT — however The Wall Street Journal experiences that the corporate is debating whether or not to truly launch it. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the corporate is researching instruments that may detect writing from ChatGPT, however stated it’s taking a “deliberate method” to releasing it.
July 2024
ChatGPT’s superior Voice Mode begins rolling out to some customers
OpenAI is giving customers their first entry to GPT-4o’s up to date real looking audio responses. The alpha model is now accessible to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers, and the corporate says the function will progressively roll out to all Plus customers within the fall of 2024. The launch follows controversy surrounding the voice’s similarity to Scarlett Johansson, main OpenAI to delay its launch.
OpenAI proclaims new search prototype, SearchGPT
OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a brand new AI search expertise to compete with Google. SearchGPT goals to raise search queries with “well timed solutions” from throughout the web, in addition to the flexibility to ask follow-up questions. The non permanent prototype is at the moment solely accessible to a small group of customers and its writer companions, like The Atlantic, for testing and suggestions.
OpenAI might lose $5 billion this 12 months, report claims
A brand new report from The Information, based mostly on undisclosed monetary data, claims OpenAI might lose as much as $5 billion as a result of how expensive the enterprise is to function. The report additionally says the corporate might spend as a lot as $7 billion in 2024 to coach and function ChatGPT.
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini
OpenAI launched its newest small AI mannequin, GPT-4o mini. The firm says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and quicker than OpenAI’s present AI fashions, outperforms business main small AI fashions on reasoning duties involving textual content and imaginative and prescient. GPT-4o mini will change GPT-3.5 Turbo because the smallest mannequin OpenAI provides.
OpenAI companions with Los Alamos National Laboratory for bioscience analysis
OpenAI introduced a partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to check how AI might be employed by scientists with the intention to advance analysis in healthcare and bioscience. This follows different health-related analysis collaborations at OpenAI, together with Moderna and Color Health.
June 2024
OpenAI makes CriticGPT to seek out errors in GPT-4
OpenAI introduced it has skilled a mannequin off of GPT-4, dubbed CriticGPT, which goals to seek out errors in ChatGPT’s code output to allow them to make enhancements and higher assist so-called human “AI trainers” charge the standard and accuracy of ChatGPT responses.
OpenAI inks content material cope with TIME
OpenAI and TIME introduced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the journal’s content material, each trendy and archival, to ChatGPT. As a part of the deal, TIME may also achieve entry to OpenAI’s expertise with the intention to develop new audience-based merchandise.
OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode
OpenAI deliberate to begin rolling out its superior Voice Mode function to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers in late June, nevertheless it says lingering points pressured it to postpone the launch to July. OpenAI says Advanced Voice Mode may not launch for all ChatGPT Plus prospects till the autumn, relying on whether or not it meets sure inner security and reliability checks.
ChatGPT releases app for Mac
ChatGPT for macOS is now accessible for all customers. With the app, customers can rapidly name up ChatGPT through the use of the keyboard mixture of Option + Space. The app permits customers to add information and different images, in addition to converse to ChatGPT from their desktop and search by their previous conversations.
Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, together with Siri
Apple introduced at WWDC 2024 that it’s bringing ChatGPT to Siri and different first-party apps and capabilities throughout its working methods. The ChatGPT integrations, powered by GPT-4o, will arrive on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia later this 12 months, and might be free with out the necessity to create a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Features unique to paying ChatGPT customers may also be accessible by Apple units.
House Oversight subcommittee invitations Scarlett Johansson to testify about ‘Sky’ controversy
Scarlett Johansson has been invited to testify concerning the controversy surrounding OpenAI’s Sky voice at a listening to for the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. In a letter, Rep. Nancy Mace stated Johansson’s testimony might “present a platform” for considerations round deepfakes.
ChatGPT experiences two outages in a single day
ChatGPT was down twice in sooner or later: one multi-hour outage within the early hours of the morning Tuesday and one other outage later within the day that’s nonetheless ongoing. Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity additionally skilled some points.
May 2024
The Atlantic and Vox Media ink content material offers with OpenAI
The Atlantic and Vox Media have introduced licensing and product partnerships with OpenAI. Both agreements permit OpenAI to make use of the publishers’ present content material to generate responses in ChatGPT, which is able to function citations to related articles. Vox Media says it’s going to use OpenAI’s expertise to construct “audience-facing and inner functions,” whereas The Atlantic will construct a brand new experimental product referred to as Atlantic Labs.
OpenAI indicators 100K PwC staff to ChatGPT’s enterprise tier
OpenAI introduced a brand new cope with administration consulting big PwC. The firm will turn out to be OpenAI’s largest buyer thus far, masking 100,000 customers, and can turn out to be OpenAI’s first companion for promoting its enterprise choices to different companies.
OpenAI says it’s coaching its GPT-4 successor
OpenAI introduced in a weblog publish that it has just lately begun coaching its subsequent flagship mannequin to succeed GPT-4. The information got here in an announcement of its new security and safety committee, which is answerable for informing security and safety choices throughout OpenAI’s merchandise.
Former OpenAI director claims the board came upon about ChatGPT on Twitter
On the The TED AI Show podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed that the board didn’t learn about ChatGPT till its launch in November 2022. Toner additionally stated that Sam Altman gave the board inaccurate details about the protection processes the corporate had in place and that he didn’t disclose his involvement within the OpenAI Startup Fund.
ChatGPT’s cellular app income noticed largest spike but following GPT-4o launch
The launch of GPT-4o has pushed the corporate’s biggest-ever spike in income on cellular, regardless of the mannequin being freely accessible on the net. Mobile customers are being pushed to improve to its $19.99 month-to-month subscription, ChatGPT Plus, in the event that they wish to experiment with OpenAI’s most up-to-date launch.
OpenAI to take away ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice
After demoing its new GPT-4o mannequin final week, OpenAI introduced it’s pausing certainly one of its voices, Sky, after customers discovered that it sounded just like Scarlett Johansson in “Her.”
OpenAI defined in a weblog publish that Sky’s voice is “not an imitation” of the actress and that AI voices shouldn’t deliberately mimic the voice of a celeb. The weblog publish went on to elucidate how the corporate selected its voices: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.
ChatGPT permits you to add information from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
OpenAI introduced new updates for simpler information evaluation inside ChatGPT. Users can now add information instantly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, work together with tables and charts, and export personalized charts for shows. The firm says these enhancements might be added to GPT-4o within the coming weeks.
OpenAI inks deal to coach AI on Reddit information
OpenAI introduced a partnership with Reddit that may give the corporate entry to “real-time, structured and distinctive content material” from the social community. Content from Reddit might be included into ChatGPT, and the businesses will work collectively to convey new AI-powered options to Reddit customers and moderators.
OpenAI debuts GPT-4o “omni” mannequin now powering ChatGPT
OpenAI’s spring replace occasion noticed the reveal of its new omni mannequin, GPT-4o, which has a black hole-like interface, in addition to voice and imaginative and prescient capabilities that really feel eerily like one thing out of “Her.” GPT-4o is ready to roll out “iteratively” throughout its developer and consumer-facing merchandise over the subsequent few weeks.
OpenAI to construct a instrument that lets content material creators choose out of AI coaching
The firm introduced it’s constructing a instrument, Media Manager, that may permit creators to raised management how their content material is getting used to coach generative AI fashions — and provides them an choice to choose out. The aim is to have the brand new instrument in place and able to use by 2025.
OpenAI explores permitting AI porn
In a brand new peek behind the scenes of its AI’s secret directions, OpenAI additionally launched a brand new NSFW coverage. Though it’s meant to begin a dialog about the way it would possibly permit specific photos and textual content in its AI merchandise, it raises questions on whether or not OpenAI — or any generative AI vendor — might be trusted to deal with delicate content material ethically.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow announce partnership
In a brand new partnership, OpenAI will get entry to developer platform Stack Overflow’s API and can get suggestions from builders to enhance the efficiency of their AI fashions. In return, OpenAI will embody attributions to Stack Overflow in ChatGPT. However, the deal was not favorable to some Stack Overflow customers — resulting in some sabotaging their reply in protest.
April 2024
U.S. newspapers file copyright lawsuit towards OpenAI and Microsoft
Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers, together with the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Denver Post, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the businesses stole thousands and thousands of copyrighted articles “with out permission and with out cost” to bolster ChatGPT and Copilot.
OpenAI inks content material licensing cope with Financial Times
OpenAI has partnered with one other information writer in Europe, London’s Financial Times, that the corporate might be paying for content material entry. “Through the partnership, ChatGPT customers will be capable to see choose attributed summaries, quotes and wealthy hyperlinks to FT journalism in response to related queries,” the FT wrote in a press launch.
OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, provides GPT-4 mannequin optimized for Japanese
OpenAI is opening a brand new workplace in Tokyo and has plans for a GPT-4 mannequin optimized particularly for the Japanese language. The transfer underscores how OpenAI will seemingly have to localize its expertise to completely different languages because it expands.
Sam Altman pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to Fortune 500 corporations
According to Reuters, OpenAI’s Sam Altman hosted lots of of executives from Fortune 500 corporations throughout a number of cities in April, pitching variations of its AI providers meant for company use.
OpenAI releases “extra direct, much less verbose” model of GPT-4 Turbo
Premium ChatGPT customers — prospects paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise — can now use an up to date and enhanced model of GPT-4 Turbo. The new mannequin brings with it enhancements in writing, math, logical reasoning and coding, OpenAI claims, in addition to a extra up-to-date data base.
ChatGPT not requires an account — however there’s a catch
You can now use ChatGPT with out signing up for an account, nevertheless it gained’t be fairly the identical expertise. You gained’t be capable to save or share chats, use customized directions, or different options related to a persistent account. This model of ChatGPT could have “barely extra restrictive content material insurance policies,” in accordance with OpenAI. When TechCrunch requested for extra particulars, nonetheless, the response was unclear:
“The signed out expertise will profit from the prevailing security mitigations which might be already constructed into the mannequin, comparable to refusing to generate dangerous content material. In addition to those present mitigations, we’re additionally implementing further safeguards particularly designed to handle different types of content material which may be inappropriate for a signed out expertise,” a spokesperson stated.
March 2024
OpenAI’s chatbot retailer is filling up with spam
TechCrunch discovered that the OpenAI’s GPT Store is flooded with weird, doubtlessly copyright-infringing GPTs. A cursory search pulls up GPTs that declare to generate artwork within the fashion of Disney and Marvel properties, however function little greater than funnels to third-party paid providers and promote themselves as with the ability to bypass AI content material detection instruments.
The New York Times responds to OpenAI’s claims that it “hacked” ChatGPT for its copyright lawsuit
In a court docket submitting opposing OpenAI’s movement to dismiss The New York Times’ lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the newspaper asserted that “OpenAI’s attention-grabbing declare that The Times ‘hacked’ its merchandise is as irrelevant as it’s false.” The New York Times additionally claimed that some customers of ChatGPT used the instrument to bypass its paywalls.
OpenAI VP doesn’t say whether or not artists needs to be paid for coaching information
At a SXSW 2024 panel, Peter Deng, OpenAI’s VP of shopper product dodged a query on whether or not artists whose work was used to coach generative AI fashions needs to be compensated. While OpenAI lets artists “choose out” of and take away their work from the datasets that the corporate makes use of to coach its image-generating fashions, some artists have described the instrument as onerous.
A brand new report estimates that ChatGPT makes use of greater than half 1,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy per day
ChatGPT’s environmental affect seems to be huge. According to a report from The New Yorker, ChatGPT makes use of an estimated 17,000 occasions the quantity of electrical energy than the common U.S. family to reply to roughly 200 million requests every day.
ChatGPT can now learn its solutions aloud
OpenAI launched a brand new Read Aloud function for the online model of ChatGPT in addition to the iOS and Android apps. The function permits ChatGPT to learn its responses to queries in certainly one of 5 voice choices and may converse 37 languages, in accordance with the corporate. Read aloud is out there on each GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 fashions.
ChatGPT can now learn responses to you.
On iOS or Android, faucet and maintain the message after which faucet “Read Aloud”. We’ve additionally began rolling on internet – click on the “Read Aloud” button beneath the message. pic.twitter.com/KevIkgAFbG
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 4, 2024
January 2025
OpenAI companions with Dublin City Council to make use of GPT-4 for tourism
As a part of a brand new partnership with OpenAI, the Dublin City Council will use GPT-4 to craft customized itineraries for vacationers, together with suggestions of distinctive and cultural locations, in an effort to assist tourism throughout Europe.
A legislation agency used ChatGPT to justify a six-figure invoice for authorized providers
New York-based legislation agency Cuddy Law was criticized by a choose for utilizing ChatGPT to calculate their hourly billing charge. The agency submitted a $113,500 invoice to the court docket, which was then halved by District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who referred to as the determine “effectively above” cheap calls for.
ChatGPT skilled a weird bug for a number of hours
ChatGPT customers discovered that ChatGPT was giving nonsensical solutions for a number of hours, prompting OpenAI to research the problem. Incidents diverse from repetitive phrases to complicated and incorrect solutions to queries. The problem was resolved by OpenAI the next morning.
Match Group introduced cope with OpenAI with a press launch co-written by ChatGPT
The courting app big house to Tinder, Match and OkCupid introduced an enterprise settlement with OpenAI in an enthusiastic press launch written with the assistance of ChatGPT. The AI tech will be used to assist workers with work-related duties and are available as a part of Match’s $20 million-plus wager on AI in 2024.
ChatGPT will now bear in mind — and overlook — stuff you inform it to
As a part of a take a look at, OpenAI started rolling out new “reminiscence” controls for a small portion of ChatGPT free and paid customers, with a broader rollout to comply with. The controls allow you to inform ChatGPT explicitly to recollect one thing, see what it remembers or flip off its reminiscence altogether. Note that deleting a chat from chat historical past gained’t erase ChatGPT’s or a customized GPT’s recollections — it’s essential to delete the reminiscence itself.
We’re testing ChatGPT’s means to recollect stuff you talk about to make future chats extra useful.
This function is being rolled out to a small portion of Free and Plus customers, and it is easy to activate or off. pic.twitter.com/BsFinBSTbs
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 13, 2024
OpenAI begins rolling out “Temporary Chat” function
Initially restricted to a small subset of free and subscription customers, Temporary Chat lets you’ve a dialogue with a clean slate. With Temporary Chat, ChatGPT gained’t pay attention to earlier conversations or entry recollections however will comply with customized directions in the event that they’re enabled.
But, OpenAI says it could make a copy of Temporary Chat conversations for as much as 30 days for “security causes.”
Use non permanent chat for conversations wherein you don’t wish to use reminiscence or seem in historical past. pic.twitter.com/H1U82zoXyC
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 13, 2024
January 2024
ChatGPT customers can now invoke GPTs instantly in chats
Paid customers of ChatGPT can now convey GPTs right into a dialog by typing “@” and choosing a GPT from the listing. The chosen GPT could have an understanding of the complete dialog, and completely different GPTs might be “tagged in” for various use circumstances and desires.
You can now convey GPTs into any dialog in ChatGPT – merely sort @ and choose the GPT.
This lets you add related GPTs with the complete context of the dialog. pic.twitter.com/Pjn5uIy9NF
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 30, 2024
ChatGPT is reportedly leaking usernames and passwords from customers’ non-public conversations
Screenshots supplied to Ars Technica discovered that ChatGPT is doubtlessly leaking unpublished analysis papers, login credentials and personal data from its customers. An OpenAI consultant informed Ars Technica that the corporate was investigating the report.
ChatGPT is violating Europe’s privateness legal guidelines, Italian DPA tells OpenAI
OpenAI has been informed it’s suspected of violating European Union privateness, following a multi-month investigation of ChatGPT by Italy’s information safety authority. Details of the draft findings haven’t been disclosed, however in a response, OpenAI stated: “We need our AI to study concerning the world, not about non-public people.”
OpenAI companions with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI pointers
In an effort to win the belief of oldsters and policymakers, OpenAI introduced it’s partnering with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI pointers and schooling supplies for folks, educators and younger adults. The group works to establish and decrease tech harms to younger folks and beforehand flagged ChatGPT as missing in transparency and privateness.
OpenAI responds to Congressional Black Caucus about lack of range on its board
After a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the shortage of range in OpenAI’s board, the corporate responded. The response, signed by CEO Sam Altman and Chairman of the Board Bret Taylor, stated constructing an entire and various board was one of many firm’s high priorities and that it was working with an govt search agency to help it to find expertise.
OpenAI drops costs and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
In a weblog publish, OpenAI introduced value drops for GPT-3.5’s API, with enter costs dropping to 50% and output by 25%, to $0.0005 per thousand tokens in, and $0.0015 per thousand tokens out. GPT-4 Turbo additionally received a brand new preview mannequin for API use, which incorporates an fascinating repair that goals to scale back “laziness” that customers have skilled.
Expanding the platform for @OpenAIDevs: new technology of embedding fashions, up to date GPT-4 Turbo, and decrease pricing on GPT-3.5 Turbo.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 25, 2024
OpenAI bans developer of a bot impersonating a presidential candidate
OpenAI has suspended AI startup Delphi, which developed a bot impersonating Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) to assist bolster his presidential marketing campaign. The ban comes simply weeks after OpenAI printed a plan to fight election misinformation, which listed “chatbots impersonating candidates” as towards its coverage.
OpenAI proclaims partnership with Arizona State University
Beginning in February, Arizona State University could have full entry to ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier, which the college plans to make use of to construct a personalised AI tutor, develop AI avatars, bolster their immediate engineering course and extra. It marks OpenAI’s first partnership with a better schooling establishment.
Winner of a literary prize reveals round 5% her novel was written by ChatGPT
After receiving the celebrated Akutagawa Prize for her novel The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, writer Rie Kudan admitted that round 5% of the e-book quoted ChatGPT-generated sentences “verbatim.” Interestingly sufficient, the novel revolves round a futuristic world with a pervasive presence of AI.
Sam Altman teases video capabilities for ChatGPT and the discharge of GPT-5
In a dialog with Bill Gates on the Unconfuse Me podcast, Sam Altman confirmed an upcoming launch of GPT-5 that might be “absolutely multimodal with speech, picture, code, and video assist.” Altman stated customers can anticipate to see GPT-5 drop someday in 2024.
OpenAI proclaims workforce to construct ‘crowdsourced’ governance concepts into its fashions
OpenAI is forming a Collective Alignment workforce of researchers and engineers to create a system for amassing and “encoding” public enter on its fashions’ behaviors into OpenAI services. This comes as part of OpenAI’s public program to award grants to fund experiments in organising a “democratic course of” for figuring out the principles AI methods comply with.
OpenAI unveils plan to fight election misinformation
In a weblog publish, OpenAI introduced customers is not going to be allowed to construct functions for political campaigning and lobbying till the corporate works out how efficient their instruments are for “customized persuasion.”
Users may also be banned from creating chatbots that impersonate candidates or authorities establishments, and from utilizing OpenAI instruments to misrepresent the voting course of or in any other case discourage voting.
The firm can also be testing out a instrument that detects DALL-E generated photos and can incorporate entry to real-time information, with attribution, in ChatGPT.
Snapshot of how we’re getting ready for 2024’s worldwide elections:
• Working to stop abuse, together with deceptive deepfakes
• Providing transparency on AI-generated content material
• Improving entry to authoritative voting data— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 15, 2024
OpenAI modifications coverage to permit army functions
In an unannounced replace to its utilization coverage, OpenAI eliminated language beforehand prohibiting the usage of its merchandise for the needs of “army and warfare.” In an extra assertion, OpenAI confirmed that the language was modified with the intention to accommodate army prospects and initiatives that don’t violate their ban on efforts to make use of their instruments to “hurt folks, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property.”
ChatGPT subscription aimed toward small groups debuts
Aptly referred to as ChatGPT Team, the brand new plan supplies a devoted workspace for groups of as much as 149 folks utilizing ChatGPT in addition to admin instruments for workforce administration. In addition to having access to GPT-4, GPT-4 with Vision and DALL-E3, ChatGPT Team lets groups construct and share GPTs for his or her enterprise wants.
OpenAI’s GPT retailer formally launches
After some forwards and backwards over the previous couple of months, OpenAI’s GPT Store is lastly right here. The function lives in a brand new tab within the ChatGPT internet consumer, and features a vary of GPTs developed each by OpenAI’s companions and the broader dev neighborhood.
To entry the GPT Store, customers have to be subscribed to certainly one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans — ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Team.
the GPT retailer is dwell!
enjoyable hypothesis final night time about which GPTs might be doing one of the best by the tip of at the moment.
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 10, 2024
Developing AI fashions could be “unimaginable” with out copyrighted supplies, OpenAI claims
Following a proposed ban on utilizing information publications and books to coach AI chatbots within the U.Ok., OpenAI submitted a plea to the House of Lords communications and digital committee. OpenAI argued that it will be “unimaginable” to coach AI fashions with out utilizing copyrighted supplies, and that they consider copyright legislation “doesn’t forbid coaching.”
OpenAI claims The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit is with out advantage
OpenAI printed a public response to The New York Times’s lawsuit towards them and Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright legislation, claiming that the case is with out advantage.
In the response, OpenAI reiterates its view that coaching AI fashions utilizing publicly accessible information from the online is truthful use. It additionally makes the case that regurgitation is much less prone to happen with coaching information from a single supply and locations the onus on customers to “act responsibly.”
We construct AI to empower folks, together with journalists.
Our place on the @nytimes lawsuit:
• Training is truthful use, however we offer an opt-out
• “Regurgitation” is a uncommon bug we’re driving to zero
• The New York Times isn’t telling the complete story— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 8, 2024
OpenAI’s app retailer for GPTs deliberate to launch subsequent week
After being delayed in December, OpenAI plans to launch its GPT Store someday within the coming week, in accordance with an e-mail considered by TechCrunch. OpenAI says builders constructing GPTs should overview the corporate’s up to date utilization insurance policies and GPT model pointers to make sure their GPTs are compliant earlier than they’re eligible for itemizing within the GPT Store. OpenAI’s replace notably didn’t embody any data on the anticipated monetization alternatives for builders itemizing their apps on the storefront.
GPT Store launching subsequent week – OpenAI pic.twitter.com/I6mkZKtgZG
— Manish Singh (@refsrc) January 4, 2024
OpenAI strikes to shrink regulatory danger in EU round information privateness
In an e-mail, OpenAI detailed an incoming replace to its phrases, together with altering the OpenAI entity offering providers to EEA and Swiss residents to OpenAI Ireland Limited. The transfer seems to be meant to shrink its regulatory danger within the European Union, the place the corporate has been underneath scrutiny over ChatGPT’s affect on folks’s privateness.
FAQs:
What is ChatGPT? How does it work?
ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that makes use of synthetic intelligence to generate textual content after a consumer enters a immediate, developed by tech startup OpenAI. The chatbot makes use of GPT-4, a big language mannequin that makes use of deep studying to provide human-like textual content.
When did ChatGPT get launched?
November 30, 2022 is when ChatGPT was launched for public use.
What is the newest model of ChatGPT?
Both the free model of ChatGPT and the paid ChatGPT Plus are repeatedly up to date with new GPT fashions. The most up-to-date mannequin is GPT-4o.
Can I exploit ChatGPT totally free?
There is a free model of ChatGPT that solely requires a sign-in along with the paid model, ChatGPT Plus.
Who makes use of ChatGPT?
Anyone can use ChatGPT! More and extra tech corporations and search engines like google are using the chatbot to automate textual content or rapidly reply consumer questions/considerations.
What corporations use ChatGPT?
Multiple enterprises make the most of ChatGPT, though others might restrict the usage of the AI-powered instrument.
Most just lately, Microsoft introduced at its 2023 Build convention that it’s integrating it ChatGPT-based Bing expertise into Windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D show startup Looking Glass makes use of ChatGPT to provide holograms you may talk with through the use of ChatGPT. And nonprofit group Solana formally built-in the chatbot into its community with a ChatGPT plug-in geared towards finish customers to assist onboard into the web3 house.
What does GPT imply in ChatGPT?
GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.
What is the distinction between ChatGPT and a chatbot?
A chatbot might be any software program/system that holds dialogue with you/an individual however doesn’t essentially must be AI-powered. For instance, there are chatbots which might be rules-based within the sense that they’ll give canned responses to questions.
ChatGPT is AI-powered and makes use of LLM expertise to generate textual content after a immediate.
Can ChatGPT write essays?
Yes.
Can ChatGPT commit libel?
Due to the character of how these fashions work, they don’t know or care whether or not one thing is true, solely that it seems true. That’s an issue once you’re utilizing it to do your homework, certain, however when it accuses you of a criminal offense you didn’t commit, which will effectively at this level be libel.
We will see how dealing with troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the subsequent few months as tech and authorized consultants try to sort out the quickest shifting goal within the business.
Does ChatGPT have an app?
Yes, there’s a free ChatGPT cellular app for iOS and Android customers.
What is the ChatGPT character restrict?
It’s not documented anyplace that ChatGPT has a personality restrict. However, customers have famous that there are some character limitations after round 500 phrases.
Does ChatGPT have an API?
Yes, it was launched March 1, 2023.
What are some pattern on a regular basis makes use of for ChatGPT?
Everyday examples embody programming, scripts, e-mail replies, listicles, weblog concepts, summarization, and so on.
What are some superior makes use of for ChatGPT?
Advanced use examples embody debugging code, programming languages, scientific ideas, complicated drawback fixing, and so on.
How good is ChatGPT at writing code?
It is determined by the character of this system. While ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it will probably’t essentially program a complete app’s price of code. That’s as a result of ChatGPT lacks context consciousness — in different phrases, the generated code isn’t all the time acceptable for the precise context wherein it’s getting used.
Can you save a ChatGPT chat?
Yes. OpenAI permits customers to avoid wasting chats within the ChatGPT interface, saved within the sidebar of the display screen. There are not any built-in sharing options but.
Are there alternate options to ChatGPT?
Yes. There are a number of AI-powered chatbot rivals comparable to Together, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, and builders are creating open supply alternate options.
How does ChatGPT deal with information privateness?
OpenAI has stated that people in “sure jurisdictions” (such because the EU) can object to the processing of their private data by its AI fashions by filling out this kind. This contains the flexibility to make requests for deletion of AI-generated references about you. Although OpenAI notes it could not grant each request because it should stability privateness requests towards freedom of expression “in accordance with relevant legal guidelines”.
The internet kind for making a deletion of information about you request is entitled “OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request”.
In its privateness coverage, the ChatGPT maker makes a passing acknowledgement of the objection necessities connected to counting on “reputable curiosity” (LI), pointing customers in the direction of extra details about requesting an choose out — when it writes: “See right here for directions on how one can choose out of our use of your data to coach our fashions.”
What controversies have surrounded ChatGPT?
Recently, Discord introduced that it had built-in OpenAI’s expertise into its bot named Clyde the place two customers tricked Clyde into offering them with directions for making the unlawful drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary combination napalm.
An Australian mayor has publicly introduced he might sue OpenAI for defamation as a result of ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in jail for bribery. This could be the primary defamation lawsuit towards the text-generating service.
CNET discovered itself within the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles underneath a mysterious byline fully generated by AI. The non-public fairness firm that owns CNET, Red Ventures, was accused of utilizing ChatGPT for web optimization farming, even when the data was incorrect.
Several main college methods and schools, together with New York City Public Schools, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and units. They declare that the AI impedes the educational course of by selling plagiarism and misinformation, a declare that not each educator agrees with.
There have additionally been circumstances of ChatGPT accusing people of false crimes.
Where can I discover examples of ChatGPT prompts?
Several marketplaces host and supply ChatGPT prompts, both totally free or for a nominal payment. One is PromptBase. Another is ChatX. More launch day by day.
Can ChatGPT be detected?
Poorly. Several instruments declare to detect ChatGPT-generated textual content, however in our exams, they’re inconsistent at finest.
Are ChatGPT chats public?
No. But OpenAI just lately disclosed a bug, since mounted, that uncovered the titles of some customers’ conversations to different folks on the service.
What lawsuits are there surrounding ChatGPT?
None particularly focusing on ChatGPT. But OpenAI is concerned in at the least one lawsuit that has implications for AI methods skilled on publicly accessible information, which might contact on ChatGPT.
Are there points relating to plagiarism with ChatGPT?
Yes. Text-generating AI fashions like ChatGPT generally tend to regurgitate content material from their coaching information.
