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Track the AI revolution at OpenAI, from ChatGPT feature updates and ethical safety debates to the company's massive market surge.
If you’d asked me two weeks ago—before OpenAI’s announcement—about the most novel contributions of LLMs to mathematics, I probably would have pointed to the AlphaEvolve system from Google DeepMind. AlphaEvolve harnesses LLMs to be the engine of an optimization process. If you can turn a math problem into a piece of code to optimize, which you often can, the LLM might find better solutions than humans have for certain types of problems. In November, four mathematicians (including Terence Tao) released a paper that analyzed AlphaEvolve’s performance on 67 optimization problems across the mathema
An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years… According to the insiders, OpenAI is so disappointed in Apple’s work that the AI firm is now “actively working with an outside legal firm on a range of options that could be formally executed in the near future.” “We have done everything from a product perspective,” the OpenAI executive summed up O… …
… The entries cited during the trial were written between 2015, when OpenAI was founded, and 2023, when Brockman and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were briefly ousted as leaders over the OpenAI board’s alleged safety concerns. …
On Monday, Florida became the first state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s allegedly dangerous design. In a complaint filed in state court, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier accused OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of prioritizing profits over the safety of Floridians. …
… To be clear, the problem that OpenAI solved is more impressive than any of the other work I just mentioned. But OpenAI’s solution is more in line with past AI efforts than the headline result might suggest. …
… It’s possible that the OpenAI trial will conclude before that probe ends, though, leaving OpenAI with more potential fires to put out even if they win. …
… OpenAI shut down its Sora video generation model in March . Around the same time, OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told employees that the company would be cutting back on “side quests” and focusing on its core coding and business users. …
… OpenAI suggested that Musk’s message to Brockman should similarly not be viewed as privileged or a sincere effort to settle the litigation because it’s “coercive rather than conciliatory.” OpenAI alleged that the threat was in line with “similar menacing statements” Musk has made throughout the lit… …
… Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kick-start OpenAI as a nonprofit, only to later be blindsided when OpenAI created a for-profit arm that he felt gutted funding for the charity while enriching executives like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. …
… An exception for SpaceX could have also allowed leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic to gain entry not long after their own expected initial public offerings IPOs . …
… Nvidia will implement SynthID in its Cosmos world foundation models, and OpenAI will use SynthID in its GPT 2 images. …
