Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
… Since then, Opal has been working on an AI-powered audio product for the last few years. This, in turn, is the product that convinced Altman to invest in Opal. …
… Since then, Opal has been working on an AI-powered audio product for the last few years. This, in turn, is the product that convinced Altman to invest in Opal. …
… Cursor 3 is the startup’s version of an “agent-first” coding product. According to Nelle, the product is optimized for a world where developers spend their days “conversing with different agents, checking in on them, and seeing the work that they did,” rather than writing code themselves. …
… Malde tells WIRED that some leading AI coding products, such as Cursor, are already doing an early version of continual learning—using real data about how people interact with their products to do post-training and regularly ship model improvements. …
… Each hit product—the Apple II, the Mac, iTunes, the iPod, the iPhone, iPad—piggybacked on a previous product. “We never think about shipping a technology,” he said. “We want to ship amazing products, features, and experiences, and we don’t want our customers to think about what underlying technolog… …
… Note that the first product we’re doing at Volkswagen is not a product from North America. …
… Ashley Alexander, a former VP of Instagram who has been leading OpenAI’s work on health products, will now lead the company’s consumer product unit. …
… OpenAI’s leaders hope that combining these products into a unified consumer interface will help the company turn ChatGPT into a true super assistant. …
… "It is tough to design products for Ikea.” Experiencing how good the inflatable Easy Chair is leads me to ask if Ikea will take this success further. Now that the company has nailed cat-proof blow-up furniture, a whole new world of air-filled products is possible. …
… That kind of coordination is exactly what building and shipping complex AI products will require—a platform approach, not a product approach. …
… Weil was previously an early executive leading product at Instagram. “Today is my last day at OpenAI, as OpenAI for Science is being decentralized into other research teams,” Weil said in a social media post on Friday, shortly after WIRED reported his departure. “It’s been a mind-expanding two year… …