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Inside OpenAI’s Library

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By: Cade Metz and Christie Hemm Klok
17 May 2024 at 22:45
OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 21:39
In November, Ilya Sutskever joined three other OpenAI board members to force out Sam Altman, the chief executive, before saying he regretted the move.

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Ilya Sutskever, who contributed to breakthrough research in artificial intelligence, brought instant credibility to OpenAI.

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 01:12
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.

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The new app is part of a much wider effort to combine conversational chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT with voice assistants like the Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri.

OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers

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By: Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
7 May 2024 at 06:00
The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The company said that its new detector can identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, its own generator.

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.

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By: Katie Robertson
30 April 2024 at 10:51
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.

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The firm behind the lawsuit, Alden Global Capital, bought Tribune Publishing, which operated metropolitan dailies including The Chicago Tribune, in 2021.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

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By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

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Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check

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By: Cade Metz， Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
29 April 2024 at 00:01
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

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Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit

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By: Karen Weise
25 April 2024 at 18:48
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

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In recent quarters, Microsoft’s A.I. push has helped it gain market share from Amazon, the leading cloud services provider.

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems

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By: Karen Weise and Cade Metz
23 April 2024 at 01:18
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.

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The smallest Microsoft Phi-3 model can fit on a smartphone, and it runs on the kinds of chips that power regular computers.

Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

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By: Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano
12 April 2024 at 00:01
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

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“The issue with not having a European champion is that the road map gets set by the United States,” Mr. Mensch said.

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

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By: Cecilia Kang， Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
6 April 2024 at 05:03
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

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Google, Meta and OpenAI train their artificial intelligence models on vast quantities of online data.

What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.

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By: Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
6 April 2024 at 05:03
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself.

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Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up in San Francisco, has been vocal about its efforts to make synthetic data work.

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

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By: Cecilia Kang， Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
6 April 2024 at 05:03
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

© Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Google, Meta and OpenAI train their artificial intelligence models on vast quantities of online data.

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

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By: Cade Metz， Cecilia Kang， Sheera Frenkel， Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
8 April 2024 at 22:50
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

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Researchers at OpenAI’s office in San Francisco developed a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to amass conversational text for A.I. development.

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.

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By: Erin Griffith
5 April 2024 at 14:10
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.

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OpenAI Unveils Audio Tool That Recreates Human Voices

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By: Cade Metz
29 March 2024 at 13:00
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

OpenAI is warning about the dangers of a new A.I. system it has created.
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