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 via writing essays and code with quick textual content prompts has developed right into a behemoth with 300 million weekly energetic customers.
2024 was an enormous yr 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 inside 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 gotten some other questions, take a look at our ChatGPT FAQ right here.
Timeline of the latest ChatGPT updates
March 2025
OpenAI removes ChatGPT’s restrictions on picture era
OpenAI made a notable change to its content material moderation insurance policies after the success of its new picture generator in ChatGPT, which quickly went viral for creating Studio Ghibli-style pictures. ChatGPT can now generate pictures of public figures, hateful symbols, and racial options when requested. OpenAI had beforehand declined such prompts because of the potential controversy or hurt they could trigger. However, the corporate has now “developed” its strategy, as acknowledged in a weblog submit revealed by Joanne Jang, the lead for OpenAI’s mannequin habits.
OpenAI adopts Anthropic’s customary for linking AI fashions with information
OpenAI intends to include Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) into all of its merchandise, together with the desktop utility for ChatGPT. MCP is now out there within the Agents SDK, and assist for the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API shall be coming quickly, Sam Altman stated. MCP, an open-source customary, helps AI fashions generate extra correct and appropriate responses to particular queries. The protocol permits builders to create bidirectional hyperlinks between information sources and AI-driven purposes like chatbots.
OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli-style pictures may increase AI copyright considerations
The newest replace of the picture generator on OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered a flood of AI-generated memes within the fashion of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster movies like “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.” The speedy viral of the photographs sparked considerations about whether or not the ChatGPT creator had violated copyright legal guidelines, particularly since they’re already dealing with authorized motion for utilizing supply materials with out authorization. Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that whereas it’s “tremendous enjoyable seeing individuals love pictures” in ChatGPT, “our GPUs are melting,” including that the corporate will quickly restrict the function’s utilization as it really works to make it extra environment friendly.
OpenAI expects income will triple this yr to $12.7 billion
OpenAI expects its income to triple to $12.7 billion in 2025, fueled by the efficiency of its paid AI software program, in keeping with media retailers. The startup expects that it’s going to not obtain optimistic money stream till 2029. The Microsoft-backed firm, which achieved a income of $3.7 billion in 2024, anticipates vital development in income subsequent yr, surpassing $29.4 billion, as reported. Meanwhile, OpenAI is within the closing levels of securing a brand new $40 billion funding spherical led by SoftBank, in keeping with a Bloomberg report. Other buyers, together with the hedge fund Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund, and Altimeter Capital Management, are additionally in talks with the ChatGPT maker to take part within the spherical, with Magnetar doubtlessly placing in $1 billion.
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 pictures and images instantly. The function went stay 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 shall be out there 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 era function to free customers could be delayed as a consequence of increased demand than the corporate anticipated.
OpenAI declares 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 keeping with a weblog submit 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 function of chief analysis officer, and Julia Villagra will tackle the function of chief individuals officer.
OpenAI’s AI voice assistant now has superior function
OpenAI has up to date its AI voice assistant with improved chatting capabilities, in keeping with a video posted on Monday (March 24) to the corporate’s official media channels. The replace allows 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 are “extra direct, partaking, concise, particular, and artistic,” a spokesperson from OpenAI instructed 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 reinforce their AI companies 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 via an utility programming interface (API) to allow them to incorporate AI into their operations. Meta additionally plans to bolster its presence in India by developing a big 3GW information middle in Jamnagar, Gujarat. OpenAI, Meta, and Reliance haven’t but formally introduced these plans.
OpenAI faces privateness grievance 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 youngsters and making an attempt to hurt the third. “The GDPR is obvious. Personal information needs to be correct,” stated Joakim Söderberg, information safety lawyer at Noyb, in a press release. “If it’s not, customers have the best to have it modified to replicate 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 every thing 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 sensible 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 a minimum of $5 on OpenAI API companies. 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 instances the worth of standard o1.
OpenAI analysis lead Noam Brown thinks AI “reasoning” fashions may’ve arrived many years in the past
Noam Brown, who heads AI reasoning analysis at OpenAI, thinks that sure kinds of AI fashions for “reasoning” may have been developed 20 years in the past if researchers had understood the proper strategy and algorithms.
OpenAI says it has educated an AI that’s “actually good” at inventive writing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated, in a submit on X, that the corporate has educated a “new mannequin” that’s “actually good” at inventive 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 using AI for writing fiction. The firm has principally focused on challenges in inflexible, predictable areas resembling math and programming. And it seems that it may not be that nice at inventive writing in any respect.
we educated a brand new mannequin that’s good at inventive writing (undecided but how/when it would get launched). that is the primary time i’ve been actually struck by one thing written by AI; it acquired 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 techniques 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 allows enterprises to develop personalized AI brokers that may carry out net searches, scan via firm recordsdata, 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 purposes, together with sorting and rating gross sales leads and software program engineering, in keeping with a report from The Information. One, a “high-income information employee” agent, will reportedly be priced at $2,000 a month. Another, a software program developer agent, is alleged to value $10,000 a month. The costliest rumored brokers, that are stated to be aimed toward supporting “PhD-level analysis,” are anticipated to value $20,000 per thirty days. The jaw-dropping determine is indicative of how a lot money OpenAI wants proper now: The firm misplaced roughly $5 billion final yr after paying for prices associated to working its companies and different bills. It’s unclear when these agentic instruments would possibly launch or which prospects shall 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, due to new releases
According to a brand new report from VC agency Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT, skilled stable 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, but it surely solely took lower than six months to double that quantity as soon as extra, in keeping with the report. ChatGPT’s weekly energetic customers elevated to 300 million by December 2024 and 400 million by February 2025. ChatGPT has skilled vital development not too long ago because of the launch of recent fashions and options, resembling 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 submit on X, Altman stated that, within the coming months, OpenAI will launch a mannequin referred to as GPT-5 that “integrates loads of [OpenAI’s] expertise,” together with o3, in ChatGPT and its API. As a results of that roadmap determination, OpenAI now not plans to launch o3 as a standalone mannequin.
ChatGPT might not be 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 typical ChatGPT question consumes round 0.3 watt-hours. However, the evaluation doesn’t contemplate the extra vitality prices incurred by ChatGPT with options like picture era or enter processing.
OpenAI now reveals extra of its o3-mini mannequin’s thought course of
In response to stress 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 net search with out logging in
OpenAI is now permitting anybody to make use of ChatGPT net 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 via ChatGPT.com, nonetheless. To use ChatGPT in any kind via 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 individuals conduct in-depth, complicated analysis utilizing ChatGPT. OpenAI says the “agent” is meant for situations the place you don’t simply need a fast reply or abstract, however as an alternative must assiduously contemplate 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/TransitionMyView 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 surroundings, 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 at last OpenAI compares the AI fashions’ responses to human replies for that very same submit.
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its newest ‘reasoning’ mannequin
OpenAI launched a brand new AI “reasoning” mannequin, o3-mini, the most recent 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 below 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 vital. 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 supply U.S. authorities companies a further strategy to entry the tech. ChatGPT Gov consists of lots of the capabilities present in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Gov allows companies to extra simply handle their very own safety, privateness, and compliance, and will expedite inside authorization of OpenAI’s instruments for the dealing with of personal delicate information.
More teenagers report utilizing ChatGPT for schoolwork, regardless of the tech’s faults
Younger Gen Zers are embracing ChatGPT, for schoolwork, in keeping with a brand new survey by the Pew Research Center. In a follow-up to its 2023 ballot on ChatGPT utilization amongst younger individuals, 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 that they had, 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 would 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 analogous 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 internet browser and independently carry out sure actions. Operator guarantees to automate duties resembling reserving journey lodging, making restaurant reservations, and buying on-line.
OpenAI might preview its agent instrument for customers on the $200-per-month Pro plan
Operator, OpenAI’s agent instrument, may very well be launched sooner reasonably than later. Changes to ChatGPT’s code base counsel that Operator shall be out there as an early analysis preview to customers on the $200 Pro subscription plan. The adjustments 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 enroll with solely a telephone quantity — no e mail required. The function is presently in beta within the U.S. and India. However, customers who create an account utilizing their quantity can’t improve to considered one of OpenAI’s paid plans with out verifying their account through an e mail. Multi-factor authentication additionally isn’t supported with no 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 gotten 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 will specify a most popular 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 doable they went stay prematurely.
December 2024
ChatGPT Search could be tricked into deceptive customers, new analysis reveals
ChatGPT Search could be fooled into producing utterly deceptive summaries, The Guardian has discovered. They discovered ChatGPT may very well be prompted to disregard adverse evaluations and generate “completely optimistic” 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, inside definition of AGI based mostly on the startup’s income, in keeping with a brand new report from The Information. The two firms reportedly signed an settlement stating OpenAI has solely achieved AGI when it develops AI techniques that may generate a minimum of $100 billion in revenue, which is way from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many would count on.
OpenAI educated o1 and o3 to ‘assume’ about its security coverage
OpenAI launched new analysis outlining the corporate’s strategy 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 capability to reply benign ones.
OpenAI declares new o3 reasoning fashions
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced the successors to its o1 reasoning mannequin household: o3 and o3-mini. The fashions should not broadly out there 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 doable, 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 an identical to Advanced Voice Mode — minus the multimodality.
OpenAI is providing quarter-hour of free calling for U.S. customers. The firm notes that customary service charges might apply.
OpenAI brings its ChatGPT Search to extra customers
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Search to free, logged in customers. Search offers ChatGPT the flexibility to entry real-time data on the net to raised reply your queries, however was solely out there for paid customers when it launched in October. Not solely is Search out there now at no cost customers, but it surely’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 attributable to a safety incident or latest 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 may 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, properly, “merry and brilliant,” as OpenAI described it. Think boomy, jolly — kind of 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 almost 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 can even perceive what’s on a tool’s display via display sharing.
There’s extra to come back from OpenAI via December 23. Tune in to our stay 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 group lead Edwin Arbus denied it in a submit 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 consequence of excessive demand
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that as a consequence of increased than anticipated demand, they’re pausing new sign-ups for its video generator Sora and that video generations shall be slower in the interim. The firm launched Sora as a part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” occasion following almost a yr 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 pictures, and could be “remixed” via further consumer prompts. Sora is accessible beginning as we speak 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 “gradual queue mode” and 500 “regular” generations per thirty days.
There are nonetheless extra reveals to come back from OpenAI via December 23. Tune in to our stay weblog to remain up to date.
OpenAI launches $200 month-to-month ChatGPT Pro subscription — and full model of o1
On day considered 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 total 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 educated to be “extra concise in its considering” to enhance response instances.
Over the following few weeks, we’ll be updating all of the information from OpenAI because it occurs on our stay weblog. Follow together with us!
OpenAI declares 12 days of reveals for the vacations
OpenAI introduced “12 Days of OpenAI,” which can 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.
beginning tomorrow at 10 am pacific, we’re doing 12 days of openai.
every weekday, we can have a livestream with a launch or demo, some large ones and a few stocking stuffers.
we’ve acquired some nice stuff to share, hope you take pleasure in! merry christmas.
— Sam Altman (@sama) December 4, 2024
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 just some months after the chatbot hit 200 million weekly energetic customers in August 2024 and simply over a yr after reaching 100 million weekly energetic customers in November 2023.
November 2024
Users found the title ‘David Mayer’ crashed ChatGPT
ChatGPT customers found an attention-grabbing phenomenon: the favored chatbot refused to reply questions requested a couple of “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 extraordinary motive could also be on the coronary heart of it: digital privateness requests.
Ads is likely to be headed to ChatGPT
OpenAI is toying with the thought of moving into adverts. CFO Sarah Friar instructed the Financial Times it’s weighing an adverts enterprise mannequin, with plans to be “considerate” about when and the place adverts seem — although she later pressured that the corporate has “no energetic plans to pursue promoting.” Still, the exploration might increase eyebrows on condition that Sam Altman not too long ago stated adverts could be a “final resort.”
Canadian information firms sue OpenAI
A bunch of Canadian media firms, together with the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI. The firms 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” inventive writing talents in addition to extra thorough responses and insights when accessing recordsdata uploaded by customers.
GPT-4o acquired an replace
The mannequin’s inventive writing capability has leveled up–extra pure, partaking, and tailor-made writing to enhance relevance & readability.
It’s additionally higher at working with uploaded recordsdata, offering deeper insights & extra thorough responses.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) November 20, 2024
OpenAI brings ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode to the net
ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode function is increasing to the net, permitting customers to speak to the chatbot via their browser. The conversational function is rolling out to ChatGPT’s paying Plus, Enterprise, Teams, or Edu subscribers.
Rolling out to ChatGPT paid customers this week: Advanced Voice Mode on net!
We launched Advanced Voice Mode in our iOS and Android apps in September, and only recently introduced them to our desktop apps ( we’re excited so as to add net to the combo. This means… pic.twitter.com/HtG5Km2OGh
— Kevin Weil
(@kevinweil) November 19, 2024
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, resembling VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 — which means that builders will now not have to repeat and paste their code into ChatGPT. When the function is enabled, OpenAI will robotically ship the part of code you’re engaged on via 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 techniques workforce. It’s the newest in a protracted string of AI security researchers,coverage researchers, and different executives who’ve exited the corporate within the final yr.
After working at OpenAI for nearly 7 years, I resolve to depart. I discovered a lot and now I’m prepared for a reset and one thing new.
Here is the notice I simply shared with the workforce.
pic.twitter.com/2j9K3oBhPC
— Lilian Weng (@lilianweng) November 8, 2024
ChatGPT instructed 2M individuals to get their election information elsewhere
OpenAI acknowledged that it instructed round 2 million customers of ChatGPT to go elsewhere for details about the 2024 U.S. election, and as an alternative really helpful trusted information sources like Reuters and the Associated Press.
In a weblog submit, OpenAI stated that ChatGPT despatched roughly one million individuals 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 pictures 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 yr, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of many prime 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} government who started main Meta’s AR glasses workforce in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the spectacular augmented actuality prototype that Meta not too long ago 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 keeping with an replace to the iOS 18.2 beta noticed by 9to5Mac. This will give Apple customers a direct route to join OpenAI’s premium subscription plan, which prices $20 a month.
October 2024
Sam Altman says a scarcity 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 delivery 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 following 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 net 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 machine, 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 may arrive as quickly as 2026. It seems, a minimum of for now, the corporate has deserted plans to ascertain a community of factories for chip manufacturing and is as an alternative specializing in in-house chip design.
You can now search via your ChatGPT historical past
OpenAI introduced it’s rolling out a function that permits customers to look via their ChatGPT chat histories on the net. The new function will let customers convey up an outdated chat to recollect one thing or choose 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 at the moment are out there to customers. The ChatGPT options embrace 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 yr
OpenAI denied experiences that it’s desiring to launch an AI mannequin, code-named Orion, by December of this yr. An OpenAI spokesperson instructed TechCrunch that they “don’t have plans to launch a mannequin code-named Orion this yr,” 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 presently solely out there to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu customers with a “full expertise” set to come back later this yr.
OpenAI inks new content material cope with Hearst
OpenAI struck a content material cope with Hearst, the newspaper and journal writer recognized for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others. The partnership will enable 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 strategy 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 come back 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 whole 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 can let builders construct almost 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 provided for ChatGPT, and builders can’t use third get together voices, with a purpose to stop copyright points.
September 2024
OpenAI would possibly increase the worth of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029
OpenAI is planning to lift the worth of particular person ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per thirty days to $22 per thirty days by the tip of the yr, in keeping with a report from The New York Times. The report notes {that a} steeper improve may come over the following 5 years; by 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll cost $44 per thirty 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 submit 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 an alternative of the animated black dots that have been introduced again in May. OpenAI is highlighting enhancements in conversational velocity, accents in overseas languages, and 5 new voices as a part of the rollout.
YouTuber finds a strategy to run ChatGPT on a graphing calculator
A video from YouTube creator ChromaLock showcased the way to modify a TI-84 graphing calculator in order that it could connect with the web and entry ChatGPT, touting it because the “final dishonest machine.” As demonstrated within the video, it’s a fairly difficult course of for the typical highschool pupil to comply with — but it surely would possibly stoke extra considerations from lecturers concerning the ongoing considerations about ChatGPT and dishonest in colleges.
OpenAI declares OpenAI o1, a brand new mannequin that may fact-check itself
OpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also called “Strawberry.” The assortment of fashions can be found in ChatGPT and through OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1 mini. The firm claims that o1 can extra successfully motive via 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 net or analyze recordsdata 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 way to make bombs
An artist and hacker discovered a strategy to jailbreak ChatGPT to provide directions for making highly effective explosives, a request that the chatbot usually refuses. An explosives skilled who reviewed the chatbot’s output instructed TechCrunch that the directions may very well 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 instructional 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 autos 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 fee from OpenAI in some kind and a Condé Nast spokesperson instructed TechCrunch that OpenAI can 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 sooner response instances, 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 retailers 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 not too long ago 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 an enormous 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 keeping with information supplied by app intelligence agency Appfigures.
OpenAI may doubtlessly catch college students who cheat with ChatGPT
OpenAI has constructed a watermarking instrument that would doubtlessly catch college students who cheat by utilizing 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 strategy” 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 sensible audio responses. The alpha model is now out there to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers, and the corporate says the function will regularly 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 declares 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 short-term prototype is presently solely out there to a small group of customers and its writer companions, like The Atlantic, for testing and suggestions.
OpenAI may lose $5 billion this yr, report claims
A brand new report from The Information, based mostly on undisclosed monetary data, claims OpenAI may lose as much as $5 billion as a consequence of how pricey the enterprise is to function. The report additionally says the corporate may 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 sooner than OpenAI’s present AI fashions, outperforms trade main small AI fashions on reasoning duties involving textual content and imaginative and prescient. GPT-4o mini will exchange GPT-3.5 Turbo because the smallest mannequin OpenAI presents.
OpenAI companions with Los Alamos National Laboratory for bioscience analysis
OpenAI introduced a partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to review how AI could be employed by scientists with a purpose 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 educated 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” price 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 fashionable and archival, to ChatGPT. As a part of the deal, TIME may also achieve entry to OpenAI’s expertise with a purpose to develop new audience-based merchandise.
OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode
OpenAI deliberate to start out rolling out its superior Voice Mode function to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers in late June, but it surely 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 inside security and reliability checks.
ChatGPT releases app for Mac
ChatGPT for macOS is now out there for all customers. With the app, customers can shortly name up ChatGPT by utilizing the keyboard mixture of Option + Space. The app permits customers to add recordsdata and different images, in addition to converse to ChatGPT from their desktop and search via 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 techniques. The ChatGPT integrations, powered by GPT-4o, will arrive on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia later this yr, and shall be free with out the necessity to create a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Features unique to paying ChatGPT customers may also be out there via Apple gadgets.
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 may “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 enable OpenAI to make use of the publishers’ present content material to generate responses in ChatGPT, which can function citations to related articles. Vox Media says it would use OpenAI’s expertise to construct “audience-facing and inside purposes,” 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 large PwC. The firm will turn out to be OpenAI’s largest buyer to this point, masking 100,000 customers, and can turn out to be OpenAI’s first accomplice for promoting its enterprise choices to different companies.
OpenAI says it’s coaching its GPT-4 successor
OpenAI introduced in a weblog submit that it has not too long ago 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 chargeable for informing security and safety selections throughout OpenAI’s merchandise.
Former OpenAI director claims the board discovered about ChatGPT on Twitter
On the The TED AI Show podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed that the board didn’t find out 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 out there 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 need 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 considered one of its voices, Sky, after customers discovered that it sounded just like Scarlett Johansson in “Her.”
OpenAI defined in a weblog submit that Sky’s voice is “not an imitation” of the actress and that AI voices mustn’t deliberately mimic the voice of a star. The weblog submit went on to clarify how the corporate selected its voices: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.
ChatGPT permits you to add recordsdata from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
OpenAI introduced new updates for simpler information evaluation inside ChatGPT. Users can now add recordsdata instantly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, work together with tables and charts, and export personalized charts for shows. The firm says these enhancements shall 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 can give the corporate entry to “real-time, structured and distinctive content material” from the social community. Content from Reddit shall be integrated 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 about to roll out “iteratively” throughout its developer and consumer-facing merchandise over the following 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 can enable 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 start out a dialog about the way it would possibly enable express pictures and textual content in its AI merchandise, it raises questions on whether or not OpenAI — or any generative AI vendor — could 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 embrace 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 in opposition to 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 tens of millions of copyrighted articles “with out permission and with out fee” 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 shall 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 possible must localize its expertise to totally different languages because it expands.
Sam Altman pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to Fortune 500 firms
According to Reuters, OpenAI’s Sam Altman hosted a whole lot of executives from Fortune 500 firms throughout a number of cities in April, pitching variations of its AI companies 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 information base.
ChatGPT now not requires an account — however there’s a catch
You can now use ChatGPT with out signing up for an account, but it surely 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 can have “barely extra restrictive content material insurance policies,” in keeping with OpenAI. When TechCrunch requested for extra particulars, nonetheless, the response was unclear:
“The signed out expertise will profit from the present security mitigations which are already constructed into the mannequin, resembling refusing to generate dangerous content material. In addition to those current mitigations, we’re additionally implementing further safeguards particularly designed to deal with 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 companies and promote themselves as having 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 courtroom 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 ought 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 ought 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 one million kilowatt-hours of electrical energy per day
ChatGPT’s environmental impression seems to be huge. According to a report from The New Yorker, ChatGPT makes use of an estimated 17,000 instances the quantity of electrical energy than the typical U.S. family to answer roughly 200 million requests every day.
ChatGPT can now learn its solutions aloud
OpenAI launched a brand new Read Aloud function for the net model of ChatGPT in addition to the iOS and Android apps. The function permits ChatGPT to learn its responses to queries in considered one of 5 voice choices and might converse 37 languages, in keeping with the corporate. Read aloud is accessible 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 net – click on the “Read Aloud” button under 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 personalised 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 companies
New York-based legislation agency Cuddy Law was criticized by a decide for utilizing ChatGPT to calculate their hourly billing price. The agency submitted a $113,500 invoice to the courtroom, which was then halved by District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who referred to as the determine “properly above” affordable 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 analyze the problem. Incidents various from repetitive phrases to complicated and incorrect solutions to queries. The situation was resolved by OpenAI the next morning.
Match Group introduced cope with OpenAI with a press launch co-written by ChatGPT
The relationship app large 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 guess on AI in 2024.
ChatGPT will now bear in mind — and neglect — belongings you inform it to
As a part of a check, 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 — you should delete the reminiscence itself.
We’re testing ChatGPT’s capability to recollect belongings you focus on to make future chats extra useful.
This function is being rolled out to a small portion of Free and Plus customers, and it is simple 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 gotten a dialogue with a clean slate. With Temporary Chat, ChatGPT gained’t concentrate on 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 short-term chat for conversations through which you don’t need 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 can have an understanding of the total dialog, and totally different GPTs could be “tagged in” for various use instances and desires.
You can now convey GPTs into any dialog in ChatGPT – merely kind @ and choose the GPT.
This permits you to add related GPTs with the total 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 instructed Ars Technica that the corporate was investigating the report.
ChatGPT is violating Europe’s privateness legal guidelines, Italian DPA tells OpenAI
OpenAI has been instructed 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 tips
In an effort to win the belief of fogeys and policymakers, OpenAI introduced it’s partnering with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI tips and schooling supplies for fogeys, educators and younger adults. The group works to establish and decrease tech harms to younger individuals and beforehand flagged ChatGPT as missing in transparency and privateness.
OpenAI responds to Congressional Black Caucus about lack of variety on its board
After a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the shortage of variety 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 prime priorities and that it was working with an government search agency to help it find expertise.
OpenAI drops costs and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
In a weblog submit, OpenAI introduced worth 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 acquired a brand new preview mannequin for API use, which incorporates an attention-grabbing repair that goals to scale back “laziness” that customers have skilled.
Expanding the platform for @OpenAIDevs: new era 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 revealed a plan to fight election misinformation, which listed “chatbots impersonating candidates” as in opposition to its coverage.
OpenAI declares partnership with Arizona State University
Beginning in February, Arizona State University can have full entry to ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier, which the college plans to make use of to construct a customized 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 distinguished Akutagawa Prize for her novel The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, creator 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 shall be “absolutely multimodal with speech, picture, code, and video assist.” Altman stated customers can count on to see GPT-5 drop someday in 2024.
OpenAI declares 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 and products. This comes as part of OpenAI’s public program to award grants to fund experiments in establishing a “democratic course of” for figuring out the principles AI techniques comply with.
OpenAI unveils plan to fight election misinformation
In a weblog submit, OpenAI introduced customers is not going to be allowed to construct purposes for political campaigning and lobbying till the corporate works out how efficient their instruments are for “personalised 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 pictures 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 forestall abuse, together with deceptive deepfakes
• Providing transparency on AI-generated content material
• Improving entry to authoritative voting data— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 15, 2024
OpenAI adjustments coverage to permit navy purposes
In an unannounced replace to its utilization coverage, OpenAI eliminated language beforehand prohibiting using its merchandise for the needs of “navy and warfare.” In a further assertion, OpenAI confirmed that the language was modified with a purpose to accommodate navy prospects and initiatives that don’t violate their ban on efforts to make use of their instruments to “hurt individuals, 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 gives a devoted workspace for groups of as much as 149 individuals utilizing ChatGPT in addition to admin instruments for workforce administration. In addition to getting 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 backwards and forwards 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 net consumer, and features a vary of GPTs developed each by OpenAI’s companions and the broader dev group.
To entry the GPT Store, customers have to be subscribed to considered one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans — ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Team.
the GPT retailer is stay!
enjoyable hypothesis final night time about which GPTs shall be doing the perfect by the tip of as we speak.
— 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 imagine copyright legislation “doesn’t forbid coaching.”
OpenAI claims The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit is with out advantage
OpenAI revealed a public response to The New York Times’s lawsuit in opposition to 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 out there information from the net 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 individuals, 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 shouldn’t be telling the total 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 keeping with an e mail seen by TechCrunch. OpenAI says builders constructing GPTs should evaluate the corporate’s up to date utilization insurance policies and GPT model tips to make sure their GPTs are compliant earlier than they’re eligible for itemizing within the GPT Store. OpenAI’s replace notably didn’t embrace 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 companies 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 below scrutiny over ChatGPT’s impression on individuals’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 often up to date with new GPT fashions. The most up-to-date mannequin is GPT-4o.
Can I take advantage of ChatGPT at no cost?
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 firms and serps are using the chatbot to automate textual content or shortly reply consumer questions/considerations.
What firms use ChatGPT?
Multiple enterprises make the most of ChatGPT, though others might restrict using the AI-powered instrument.
Most not too long ago, 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 by utilizing 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 area.
What does GPT imply in ChatGPT?
GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.
What is the distinction between ChatGPT and a chatbot?
A chatbot could be any software program/system that holds dialogue with you/an individual however doesn’t essentially should be AI-powered. For instance, there are chatbots which are 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 appears to be like true. That’s an issue while you’re utilizing it to do your homework, positive, however when it accuses you of against the law you didn’t commit, that will properly at this level be libel.
We will see how dealing with troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the following few months as tech and authorized specialists try to sort out the quickest transferring goal within the trade.
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 wherever 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 embrace programming, scripts, e mail replies, listicles, weblog concepts, summarization, and so forth.
What are some superior makes use of for ChatGPT?
Advanced use examples embrace debugging code, programming languages, scientific ideas, complicated drawback fixing, and so forth.
How good is ChatGPT at writing code?
It is dependent upon the character of this system. While ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it could’t essentially program a whole app’s value of code. That’s as a result of ChatGPT lacks context consciousness — in different phrases, the generated code isn’t at all times applicable for the precise context through which 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. There are not any built-in sharing options but.
Are there alternate options to ChatGPT?
Yes. There are a number of AI-powered chatbot opponents resembling 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 manner. This consists of 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 in opposition to freedom of expression “in accordance with relevant legal guidelines”.
The net 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 hooked up to counting on “professional curiosity” (LI), pointing customers in 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 consequence of ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in jail for bribery. This could be the primary defamation lawsuit in opposition to the text-generating service.
CNET discovered itself within the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles below a mysterious byline utterly generated by AI. The non-public fairness firm that owns CNET, Red Ventures, was accused of utilizing ChatGPT for search engine optimization farming, even when the data was incorrect.
Several main college techniques and schools, together with New York City Public Schools, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and gadgets. They declare that the AI impedes the training course of by selling plagiarism and misinformation, a declare that not each educator agrees with.
There have additionally been instances of ChatGPT accusing people of false crimes.
Where can I discover examples of ChatGPT prompts?
Several marketplaces host and supply ChatGPT prompts, both at no cost or for a nominal charge. One is PromptBase. Another is ChatX. More launch day-after-day.
Can ChatGPT be detected?
Poorly. Several instruments declare to detect ChatGPT-generated textual content, however in our exams, they’re inconsistent at greatest.
Are ChatGPT chats public?
No. But OpenAI not too long ago disclosed a bug, since mounted, that uncovered the titles of some customers’ conversations to different individuals on the service.
What lawsuits are there surrounding ChatGPT?
None particularly focusing on ChatGPT. But OpenAI is concerned in a minimum of one lawsuit that has implications for AI techniques educated on publicly out there 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.
