Sanket Mishra / Pexels One of the great strengths of ChatGPT is its ability to aid in creative writing. ChatGPT’s latest large language model, GPT-4o, has received a bit of a performance boost, OpenAI announced Wednesday. Users can reportedly expect “more natural, engaging, and tailored writing to improve relevance & readability” moving forward. GPT-4o got … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping is promoting the idea of a “shared future in cyberspace” at the country’s annual internet conference this year amid an intensifying US-China rivalry that has raised concerns about technological decoupling, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors. The advance of AI technologies has improved humans’ ability to change the world, but … Read more
A quietly growing belief in Silicon Valley could have immense implications: the breakthroughs from large AI models — the ones expected to bring human-level artificial intelligence in the near future — may be slowing down. Since the frenzied launch of ChatGPT two years ago, AI believers have maintained that improvements in generative AI would accelerate … Read more
China’s state-backed unicorn Zhipu AI has introduced a series of artificial intelligence (AI) features to its video tool Ying, in a heated race with other start-ups and Big Tech companies to woo users in a growing market for AI-assisted video creation tools. After the updates, Ying will be able to generate 4K high-definition video clips … Read more
Viralyft / Unsplash A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools — and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion worldwide. So many people are visiting the AI chatbot, and its figures … Read more
ChatGPT is receiving its second new search feature of the week, the company announced on Thursday. Dubbed ChatGPT Search, this tool will deliver real-time data from the internet in response to your chat prompts. ChatGPT Search appears to be both OpenAI’s answer to Perplexity and a shot across Google’s bow. “You can get fast, timely answers … Read more
A safety executive at OpenAI made a rare speech at an event hosted by a major Chinese video streaming platform, calling for the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI). Lilian Weng Li, a research vice-president on AI safety at the Microsoft-backed start-up, said at an event hosted by Chinese streaming platform Bilibili last week that … Read more
Sam Altman-led OpenAI is in early talks with the California attorney general’s office to change its corporate structure in a bid to become a for-profit business, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI and a representative for the California Attorney General did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. A shift … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding is scaling down its metaverse operations, according to a source familiar with the matter, making it the latest Big Tech company to pull back resources from the once-popular sector. Dozens of employees at Yuanjing, the metaverse unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba, have been laid off, as part of a restructuring that aims … Read more
You can now speak directly with ChatGPT right on your PC or Mac, thanks to a new Advanced Voice Mode integration, OpenAI announced on Wednesday. “Big day for desktops,” the company declared in an X (formerly Twitter) post. Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) runs atop the GPT-4o model, OpenAI’s current state of the art, and enables … Read more
