On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it is deepening its ties with US government through a partnership with the National Laboratories and expects to use AI to "supercharge" research across a wide range of fields to better serve the public.
The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.
OpenAI will put its models on a supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and make them available to researchers at other U.S. national laboratories under a deal with the government announced Thursday.
ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.
Alibaba claims that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.
DeepSeek is causing havoc throughout the AI industry. U.S.-based tech companies that have heavily invested in AI saw their stocks take a tumble this week after the China-based startup released a new AI model on par with OpenAI's latest model, yet much cheaper to train — plus, DeepSeek made it free and open source.
Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI in talks to raise new $40 billion funding, at a valuation of $340 billion.
Last year, OpenAI lost two prominent AI researchers, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike. The pair were co-leading the company's Superalignment team at the time, which was focused on AI safety and had been working to achieve “scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us.”
Microsoft has provided unlimited free access to OpenAI's o1 model, which was released in December and can be as much as $200/month.
Copilot AI chatbot is getting OpenAI's o1 reasoning model-powered Think Deeper feature for reasoning through more complex queries, make suggestions, draw comparisons between two options
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has shaken the self-image of America's vaunted tech sector. A visit to San Francisco's AI neighborhood finds some developers and investors rejoicing, while others are in despair.