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No more opening a dozen official blogs every morning. First-hand releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and the rest, each with its substance pulled out.
OpenAI Zelma: Making Education Data Accessible via GPT-4
Zelma is a GPT-4 powered research assistant designed to make U.S. standardized test data for grades 3-8 accessible to parents, teachers, and policymakers through plain-language queries.
OpenAI Sora First Impressions from Creative Professionals
OpenAI shared early feedback from visual artists and filmmakers who are using Sora to prototype ideas, create surreal visuals, and remove technical and budgetary constraints from the creative process.
JetBrains AI Assistant Integration with OpenAI API
JetBrains integrated OpenAI's API into its AI Assistant to automate mundane coding tasks, resulting in 77% of developers reporting increased productivity.
Holiday Extras ChatGPT Enterprise Implementation
Holiday Extras deployed ChatGPT Enterprise across its organization, saving over 500 hours per week and achieving an estimated $500k in annual savings.
OpenAI and Salesforce Integration for Enterprise Trust and Safety
OpenAI provides the foundational generative AI models for the Salesforce Einstein AI Platform, enabling secure, enterprise-ready AI capabilities across Sales, Service, and Commerce Clouds.
Superhuman AI Integration with OpenAI API
Superhuman has integrated OpenAI's API to launch a suite of AI-powered email features that double the speed of inbox processing for its users.
OpenAI Global News Partnerships with Le Monde and Prisa Media
OpenAI has partnered with Le Monde and Prisa Media to integrate their news content into ChatGPT, providing users with attributed summaries and direct links to original articles.
Healthify and OpenAI Collaboration for AI Health Coaching
Healthify has integrated OpenAI's GPT-4 Vision, GPT-4 Turbo, and Embeddings models to scale personalized nutrition and fitness coaching, resulting in a 50% increase in food tracking engagement.
OpenAI Governance Review and Leadership Confirmation
OpenAI has completed an independent review by WilmerHale, confirming full confidence in Sam Altman and Greg Brockman's leadership and implementing significant governance reforms.
OpenAI Board of Directors Expansion
OpenAI has appointed Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo to its Board of Directors, while CEO Sam Altman has rejoined the board.
Lifespan Healthcare System Uses GPT-4 to Improve Patient Health Literacy
Lifespan, Rhode Island's largest healthcare system, has deployed GPT-4 to simplify complex surgical consent forms from a college reading level to a middle school level to improve patient understanding and well-being.
Match Group Adopts ChatGPT Enterprise to Enhance Productivity and Product Development
Match Group has deployed ChatGPT Enterprise to thousands of employees to improve cross-functional collaboration, engineering efficiency, and product usability testing, while leveraging OpenAI's API for customer-facing features.
Paradigm Integrates GPT-4 to Accelerate Clinical Trial Patient Matching
Paradigm uses OpenAI's GPT-4 API to automate the evaluation of medical records for clinical trial eligibility, increasing accuracy by 10% and enabling the screening of hundreds of patients per minute.
OpenAI and Elon Musk: Clarification of Partnership and Mission
OpenAI released a statement clarifying its historical relationship with Elon Musk, the necessity of its for-profit transition to fund AGI development, and its commitment to broad benefit.
OpenAI Sora: Video Generation Models as World Simulators
OpenAI has introduced Sora, a diffusion transformer model capable of generating high-fidelity video up to one minute long, suggesting that scaling video generation is a path toward general-purpose physical world simulators.
OpenAI Disrupts State-Affiliated Threat Actors Using AI
OpenAI, in partnership with Microsoft Threat Intelligence, terminated accounts of five state-affiliated threat actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia who used AI for limited cybersecurity tasks.
ChatGPT Memory and New User Controls
OpenAI has introduced a memory feature for ChatGPT that allows the model to remember details across conversations to provide more personalized responses without requiring repeated information.
OpenAI Biological Threat Evaluation: Building an Early Warning System
OpenAI conducted a human-centric study to determine if GPT-4 increases the ability of users to create biological threats compared to internet-only access, finding mild but not statistically significant uplifts in accuracy and completeness.
OpenAI New Embedding Models and API Updates January 2024
OpenAI has released new text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large models with improved performance and lower pricing, alongside updates to GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo.
OpenAI Democratic Inputs to AI Grant Program Update
OpenAI has summarized the results of its Democratic Inputs to AI grant program, detailing ten innovative projects and establishing a new Collective Alignment team to integrate public inputs into model behavior.
OpenAI 2024 Election Integrity Initiatives
OpenAI implemented a multi-layered safety strategy for 2024 worldwide elections, focusing on elevating authoritative voting information, preventing deepfakes of political figures, and disrupting covert influence operations.
OpenAI and Digital Green Launch Farmer.Chat for Agricultural Extension
Digital Green has partnered with OpenAI to create Farmer.Chat, a generative AI tool that reduces the cost of agricultural extension services from $35 to $0.35 per farmer while supporting multiple languages in India and Kenya.
ChatGPT Team Release Notes
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Team, a self-serve plan designed for small to medium teams providing collaborative workspaces, admin tools, and enterprise-grade data privacy.
OpenAI GPT Store Launch
OpenAI has launched the GPT Store, allowing ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users to discover, share, and monetize custom GPT versions of ChatGPT.
OpenAI and Journalism: Response to The New York Times Lawsuit
OpenAI asserts that training AI models on public internet data is fair use and describes the regurgitation of copyrighted content as a rare bug, responding to a lawsuit from The New York Times.
WHOOP Coach: Personalized Health Coaching via GPT-4
WHOOP has integrated OpenAI's GPT-4 to launch WHOOP Coach, an AI-powered fitness and health coach that provides personalized, on-demand guidance based on a user's unique physiological data.
OpenAI Practices for Governing Agentic AI Systems
OpenAI proposes a framework of baseline responsibilities and safety best practices to ensure the responsible integration of agentic AI systems—AI that pursues complex goals with limited supervision—into society.
OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grants
OpenAI has launched a $10 million grants program to fund technical research into the alignment and safety of superhuman AI systems.
Summer Health uses GPT-4 to automate pediatric visit notes
Summer Health has integrated GPT-4 to transform pediatrician observations into clear, jargon-free visit notes, reducing administrative time per note from 10 minutes to 2 minutes.
OpenAI Weak-to-Strong Generalization Research
OpenAI researchers have demonstrated that a smaller, less capable model can supervise a larger model to elicit capabilities near GPT-3.5 levels, providing a potential path for aligning superhuman AI systems.
OpenAI and Axel Springer Partnership for AI Journalism
OpenAI and Axel Springer have partnered to integrate authoritative news content from brands like POLITICO and Business Insider into ChatGPT, while utilizing Axel Springer content for LLM training.
OpenAI Leadership Update: Sam Altman Returns as CEO
Sam Altman has returned as CEO of OpenAI, supported by a new initial board and a commitment to strengthening corporate governance.
OpenAI Leadership Transition: Mira Murati Appointed Interim CEO
OpenAI has appointed Mira Murati as interim CEO following the departure of Sam Altman, who has left both the CEO role and the board of directors.
OpenAI Data Partnerships
OpenAI has launched Data Partnerships to collaborate with organizations to create public and private datasets for training AI models to improve domain-specific understanding and move toward AGI.
OpenAI Introducing GPTs
OpenAI has launched GPTs, custom versions of ChatGPT that users can create for specific purposes without coding, enabling tailored AI assistants for personal, professional, or enterprise use.
OpenAI DevDay 2023: GPT-4 Turbo, Assistants API, and Multimodal Updates
OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K context window, the new Assistants API for agent-like experiences, and expanded multimodal capabilities including DALL·E 3 and TTS.
OpenAI Frontier Risk and Preparedness Framework
OpenAI has established a dedicated Preparedness team and a Risk-Informed Development Policy to identify, evaluate, and mitigate catastrophic risks associated with frontier AI models.
Frontier Model Forum Updates
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft have appointed Chris Meserole as Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and established a $10 million AI Safety Fund to advance research into evaluating capable AI models.
DALL·E 3 Integration in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
OpenAI has integrated DALL·E 3 into ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise, introducing a model capable of higher visual fidelity, better prompt adherence, and improved rendering of text, hands, and faces.
Typeform Formless: AI-Powered Conversational Data Collection
Typeform has launched Formless, an AI-powered platform built on GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 that replaces traditional form structures with dynamic, two-way conversational experiences.
Ironclad AI Assist integration with GPT-4
Ironclad has integrated GPT-4 into its contract lifecycle management platform via AI Assist, reducing initial contract redlining time from 40 minutes to two minutes.
Retool AI Integration with GPT-4
Retool has launched Retool AI, a suite of capabilities powered by GPT-4 that allows businesses to build custom AI-powered applications and workflows using a visual canvas.
DALL·E 3 System Card
OpenAI released the DALL·E 3 system card, detailing improvements in caption fidelity and image quality over DALL·E 2, alongside extensive safety evaluations and risk mitigations.
GPT-4V(ision) System Card
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4V(ision), a multimodal expansion of GPT-4 that allows the model to analyze and process image inputs to solve new tasks and provide novel user experiences.
ChatGPT Voice and Image Capabilities Update
OpenAI has introduced multimodal capabilities to ChatGPT, enabling Plus and Enterprise users to engage in voice conversations and share images for analysis.
OpenAI Red Teaming Network
OpenAI has launched the Red Teaming Network, a formal community of global domain experts tasked with rigorously evaluating AI models to identify risks and improve safety throughout the development lifecycle.
OpenAI Establishes European Presence with New Dublin Office
OpenAI has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland, to expand its European operations, trust and safety, security engineering, and legal functions.
OpenAI DevDay Announcement
OpenAI announced its first developer conference, DevDay, scheduled for November 6, 2023, in San Francisco to preview new tools and engage with the developer community.
OpenAI Teaching with AI Guide
OpenAI provides practical frameworks and prompt templates for educators to use AI for language support, lesson planning, and personalized tutoring.
ChatGPT Enterprise Release Notes
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Enterprise, providing organizations with enterprise-grade security, privacy, and unlimited, high-speed access to GPT-4.