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ChatGPT: Every part you should know in regards to the AI chatbot

March 31, 2025
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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What began as a software to supercharge productiveness by means of writing essays and code with quick textual content prompts has developed right into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.

2024 was a giant yr for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI providing, Apple Intelligence, the discharge of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video mannequin Sora.

OpenAI additionally confronted its share of inside drama, together with the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati. OpenAI has additionally been hit with lawsuits from Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers alleging copyright infringement, in addition to an injunction from Elon Musk to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit.

In 2025, OpenAI is battling the notion that it’s ceding floor within the AI race to Chinese language rivals like DeepSeek. The corporate has been making an attempt to shore up its relationship with Washington because it concurrently pursues an bold information middle challenge, and because it reportedly lays the groundwork for one of many largest funding rounds in historical past.

Under, you’ll discover a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, beginning with the newest, which we’ve been updating all year long. When you’ve got every other questions, take a look at our ChatGPT FAQ right here.

Timeline of the latest ChatGPT updates

March 2025

OpenAI removes ChatGPT’s restrictions on picture technology

OpenAI made a notable change to its content material moderation insurance policies after the success of its new picture generator in ChatGPT, which quickly went viral for creating Studio Ghibli-style photographs. ChatGPT can now generate photographs of public figures, hateful symbols, and racial options when requested. OpenAI had beforehand declined such prompts because of the potential controversy or hurt they could trigger. Nonetheless, the corporate has now “developed” its method, as acknowledged in a blog post printed by Joanne Jang, the lead for OpenAI’s mannequin habits.

OpenAI adopts Anthropic’s commonplace for linking AI fashions with information

OpenAI intends to include Anthropic’s Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) into all of its merchandise, together with the desktop software for ChatGPT. MCP is now out there within the Brokers SDK, and assist for the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API shall be coming quickly, Sam Altman said. MCP, an open-source commonplace, helps AI fashions generate extra correct and appropriate responses to particular queries. The protocol permits builders to create bidirectional hyperlinks between information sources and AI-driven functions like chatbots.

The newest replace of the picture generator on OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered a flood of AI-generated memes within the fashion of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster movies like “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.” The fast viral of the photographs sparked issues about whether or not the ChatGPT creator had violated copyright legal guidelines, particularly since they’re already going through authorized motion for utilizing supply materials with out authorization. In the meantime, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that while it is “super fun seeing people love images” in ChatGPT, “our GPUs are melting,” including that the corporate will briefly restrict the function’s utilization as it really works to make it extra environment friendly.

OpenAI expects income will triple this yr to $12.7 billion

OpenAI expects its income to triple to $12.7 billion in 2025, fueled by the efficiency of its paid AI software program, according to media outlets. The startup expects that it’s going to not obtain optimistic money movement till 2029. The Microsoft-backed firm, which achieved a income of $3.7 billion in 2024, anticipates important development in income subsequent yr, surpassing $29.4 billion, as reported. In the meantime, OpenAI is within the remaining phases of securing a brand new $40 billion funding spherical led by SoftBank, according to a Bloomberg report. Different traders, together with the hedge fund Magnetar Capital, Coatue Administration, Founders Fund, and Altimeter Capital Administration, are additionally in talks with the ChatGPT maker to take part within the spherical, with Magnetar doubtlessly placing in $1 billion.

ChatGPT has upgraded its image-generation function

OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out a serious improve to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities: ChatGPT can now use the GPT-4o mannequin to generate and edit photographs and photographs instantly. The function went stay earlier this week in ChatGPT and Sora, OpenAI’s AI video-generation software, for subscribers of the corporate’s Professional plan, priced at $200 a month, and shall be out there quickly to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and builders utilizing the corporate’s API service. The corporate’s CEO Sam Altman mentioned on Wednesday, nevertheless, that the discharge of the picture technology function to free customers could be delayed as a result of increased demand than the corporate anticipated.

OpenAI pronounces management updates

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief working officer, will lead the corporate’s world enlargement and handle company partnerships as CEO Sam Altman shifts his focus to research and products, in accordance to a blog post from OpenAI. Lightcap, who beforehand labored with Altman at Y Combinator, joined the Microsoft-backed startup in 2018. OpenAI additionally mentioned Mark Chen would step into the expanded function of chief analysis officer, and Julia Villagra will tackle the function of chief folks officer.

OpenAI’s AI voice assistant now has superior function

OpenAI has up to date its AI voice assistant with improved chatting capabilities, in keeping with a video posted on Monday (March 24) to the corporate’s official media channels. The replace allows real-time conversations, and the AI assistant is alleged to be extra personable and interrupts customers much less typically. Customers on ChatGPT’s free tier can now entry the brand new model of Superior Voice Mode, whereas paying customers will obtain solutions which are “extra direct, participating, concise, particular, and artistic,” a spokesperson from OpenAI informed TechCrunch.

OpenAI, Meta in talks with Reliance in India

OpenAI and Meta have individually engaged in discussions with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries relating to potential collaborations to reinforce their AI companies within the nation, per a report by The Information. One key matter being mentioned is Reliance Jio distributing OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Reliance has proposed promoting OpenAI’s fashions to companies in India by means of an software programming interface (API) to allow them to incorporate AI into their operations. Meta additionally plans to bolster its presence in India by setting up a big 3GW information middle in Jamnagar, Gujarat. OpenAI, Meta, and Reliance haven’t but formally introduced these plans.

OpenAI faces privateness criticism in Europe for chatbot’s defamatory hallucinations

Noyb, a privateness rights advocacy group, is supporting a person in Norway who was shocked to find that ChatGPT was offering false details about him, stating that he had been discovered responsible of killing two of his youngsters and making an attempt to hurt the third. “The GDPR is evident. Private information needs to be correct,” mentioned Joakim Söderberg, information safety lawyer at Noyb, in a press release. “If it’s not, customers have the best to have it modified to mirror the reality. Exhibiting ChatGPT customers a tiny disclaimer that the chatbot could make errors clearly isn’t sufficient. You possibly can’t simply unfold false info and in the long run add a small disclaimer saying that the whole lot you mentioned could not be true.”

OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI fashions

OpenAI has added new transcription and voice-generating AI fashions to its APIs: a text-to-speech mannequin, “gpt-4o-mini-tts,” that delivers extra nuanced and lifelike sounding speech, in addition to two speech-to-text fashions referred to as “gpt-4o-transcribe” and “gpt-4o-mini-transcribe”. The corporate claims they’re improved variations of what was already there and that they hallucinate much less.

OpenAI has launched o1-pro, a extra highly effective model of its o1

OpenAI has introduced o1-pro in its developer API. OpenAI says its o1-pro makes use of extra computing than its o1 “reasoning” AI mannequin to ship “persistently higher responses.” It’s solely accessible to pick out builders who’ve spent a minimum of $5 on OpenAI API companies. OpenAI expenses $150 for each million tokens (about 750,000 phrases) enter into the mannequin and $600 for each million tokens the mannequin produces. It prices twice as a lot as OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 for enter and 10 instances the worth of normal o1.

OpenAI analysis lead Noam Brown thinks AI “reasoning” fashions may’ve arrived a long time in the past

Noam Brown, who heads AI reasoning analysis at OpenAI, thinks that sure varieties of AI fashions for “reasoning” may have been developed 20 years in the past if researchers had understood the right method and algorithms.

OpenAI says it has educated an AI that’s “actually good” at artistic writing

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned, in a post on X, that the corporate has educated a “new mannequin” that’s “actually good” at artistic writing. He posted a prolonged pattern from the mannequin given the immediate “Please write a metafictional literary quick story about AI and grief.” OpenAI has not extensively explored using AI for writing fiction. The corporate has largely focused on challenges in inflexible, predictable areas reminiscent of math and programming. And it seems that it won’t be that nice at artistic writing in any respect.

OpenAI launches new instruments to assist companies construct AI brokers

OpenAI rolled out new instruments designed to help developers and businesses build AI agents — automated techniques that may independently accomplish duties — utilizing the corporate’s personal AI fashions and frameworks. The instruments are a part of OpenAI’s new Responses API, which allows enterprises to develop personalized AI brokers that may carry out net searches, scan by means of firm recordsdata, and navigate web sites, just like OpenAI’s Operator product. The Responses API successfully replaces OpenAI’s Assistants API, which the corporate plans to discontinue within the first half of 2026.

OpenAI reportedly plans to cost as much as $20,000 a month for specialised AI ‘brokers’

OpenAI intends to launch a number of “agent” merchandise tailor-made for various functions, together with sorting and rating gross sales leads and software program engineering, in keeping with a report from The Information. One, a “high-income information employee” agent, will reportedly be priced at $2,000 a month. One other, a software program developer agent, is alleged to value $10,000 a month. The most costly rumored brokers, that are mentioned to be aimed toward supporting “PhD-level analysis,” are anticipated to value $20,000 per 30 days. The jaw-dropping determine is indicative of how a lot money OpenAI wants proper now: The corporate misplaced roughly $5 billion final yr after paying for prices associated to working its companies and different bills. It’s unclear when these agentic instruments would possibly launch or which clients shall be eligible to purchase them.

ChatGPT can instantly edit your code

The newest model of the macOS ChatGPT app permits customers to edit code instantly in supported developer instruments, together with Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains. ChatGPT Plus, Professional, and Crew subscribers can use the function now, and the corporate plans to roll it out to extra customers like Enterprise, Edu, and free customers.

ChatGPT’s weekly lively customers doubled in lower than 6 months, due to new releases

In keeping with a new report from VC agency Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT, skilled strong development within the second half of 2024. It took ChatGPT 9 months to extend its weekly lively customers from 100 million in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, nevertheless it solely took lower than six months to double that quantity as soon as extra, in keeping with the report. ChatGPT’s weekly lively customers elevated to 300 million by December 2024 and 400 million by February 2025. ChatGPT has skilled important development lately because of the launch of recent fashions and options, reminiscent of GPT-4o, with multimodal capabilities. ChatGPT utilization spiked from April to Might 2024, shortly after that mannequin’s launch.

February 2025

OpenAI cancels its o3 AI mannequin in favor of a ‘unified’ next-gen launch

OpenAI has successfully canceled the discharge of o3 in favor of what CEO Sam Altman is looking a “simplified” product providing. In a post on X, Altman mentioned that, within the coming months, OpenAI will launch a mannequin referred to as GPT-5 that “integrates quite a lot of [OpenAI’s] expertise,” together with o3, in ChatGPT and its API. Because of that roadmap resolution, OpenAI not plans to launch o3 as a standalone mannequin. 

ChatGPT might not be as power-hungry as as soon as assumed

A commonly cited stat is that ChatGPT requires round 3 watt-hours of energy to reply a single query. Utilizing OpenAI’s newest default mannequin for ChatGPT, GPT-4o, as a reference, nonprofit AI research institute Epoch AI discovered the common ChatGPT question consumes round 0.3 watt-hours. Nonetheless, the evaluation doesn’t contemplate the extra power prices incurred by ChatGPT with options like picture technology or enter processing.

OpenAI now reveals extra of its o3-mini mannequin’s thought course of

In response to stress from rivals like DeepSeek, OpenAI is altering the way in which its o3-mini mannequin communicates its step-by-step “thought” course of. ChatGPT customers will see an up to date “chain of thought” that reveals extra of the mannequin’s “reasoning” steps and the way it arrived at solutions to questions.

Now you can use ChatGPT net search with out logging in

OpenAI is now permitting anybody to make use of ChatGPT net search with out having to log in. Whereas OpenAI had beforehand allowed customers to ask ChatGPT questions with out signing in, responses have been restricted to the chatbot’s final coaching replace. This solely applies by means of ChatGPT.com, nevertheless. To make use of ChatGPT in any kind by means of the native cell app, you’ll nonetheless must be logged in.

OpenAI unveils a brand new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep analysis’

OpenAI introduced a brand new AI “agent” referred to as deep analysis that’s designed to assist folks conduct in-depth, complicated analysis utilizing ChatGPT. OpenAI says the “agent” is meant for cases the place you don’t simply desire a fast reply or abstract, however as an alternative have to assiduously contemplate info from a number of web sites and different sources.

February 2025

OpenAI used a subreddit to check AI persuasion

OpenAI used the subreddit r/ChangeMyView to measure the persuasive skills of its AI reasoning fashions. OpenAI says it collects person posts from the subreddit and asks its AI fashions to put in writing replies, in a closed surroundings, that may change the Reddit person’s thoughts on a topic. The corporate then reveals the responses to testers, who assess how persuasive the argument is, and at last OpenAI compares the AI fashions’ responses to human replies for that very same put up. 

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its newest ‘reasoning’ mannequin

OpenAI launched a brand new AI “reasoning” mannequin, o3-mini, the latest within the firm’s o household of fashions. OpenAI first previewed the mannequin in December alongside a extra succesful system referred to as o3. OpenAI is pitching its new mannequin as each “highly effective” and “inexpensive.”

ChatGPT’s cell customers are 85% male, report says

A brand new report from app analytics agency Appfigures discovered that over half of ChatGPT’s cell customers are underneath age 25, with customers between ages 50 and 64 making up the second largest age demographic. The gender hole amongst ChatGPT customers is much more important. Appfigures estimates that throughout age teams, males make up 84.5% of all customers.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for US authorities companies

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Gov designed to offer U.S. authorities companies an extra approach to entry the tech. ChatGPT Gov contains lots of the capabilities present in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Gov allows companies to extra simply handle their very own safety, privateness, and compliance, and will expedite inside authorization of OpenAI’s instruments for the dealing with of personal delicate information.

Extra teenagers report utilizing ChatGPT for schoolwork, regardless of the tech’s faults

Youthful Gen Zers are embracing ChatGPT, for schoolwork, in keeping with a brand new survey by the Pew Analysis Middle. In a follow-up to its 2023 ballot on ChatGPT utilization amongst younger folks, Pew requested ~1,400 U.S.-based teenagers ages 13 to 17 whether or not they’ve used ChatGPT for homework or different school-related assignments. Twenty-six p.c mentioned that that they had, double the quantity two years in the past. Simply over half of teenagers responding to the ballot mentioned they assume it’s acceptable to make use of ChatGPT for researching new topics. However contemplating the methods ChatGPT can fall quick, the outcomes are probably trigger for alarm.

OpenAI says it might retailer deleted Operator information for as much as 90 days

OpenAI says that it would retailer chats and related screenshots from clients who use Operator, the corporate’s AI “agent” software, for as much as 90 days — even after a person manually deletes them. Whereas OpenAI has an analogous deleted information retention coverage for ChatGPT, the retention interval for ChatGPT is just 30 days, which is 60 days shorter than Operator’s.

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs duties autonomously

OpenAI is launching a analysis preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that may take management of an internet browser and independently carry out sure actions. Operator guarantees to automate duties reminiscent of reserving journey lodging, making restaurant reservations, and procuring on-line.

OpenAI might preview its agent software for customers on the $200-per-month Professional plan

Operator, OpenAI’s agent software, may very well be launched sooner slightly than later. Modifications to ChatGPT’s code base counsel that Operator shall be out there as an early analysis preview to customers on the $200 Professional subscription plan. The adjustments aren’t but publicly seen, however a user on X who goes by Choi noticed these updates in ChatGPT’s client-side code. TechCrunch individually recognized the identical references to Operator on OpenAI’s web site.

OpenAI checks telephone number-only ChatGPT signups

OpenAI has begun testing a function that lets new ChatGPT customers enroll with solely a telephone quantity — no e-mail required. The function is presently in beta within the U.S. and India. Nonetheless, customers who create an account utilizing their quantity can’t improve to certainly one of OpenAI’s paid plans with out verifying their account by way of an e-mail. Multi-factor authentication additionally isn’t supported with out a legitimate e-mail.

ChatGPT now enables you to schedule reminders and recurring duties

ChatGPT’s new beta function, referred to as duties, permits customers to set easy reminders. For instance, you possibly can ask ChatGPT to remind you when your passport expires in six months, and the AI assistant will comply with up with a push notification on no matter platform you could have duties enabled. The function will begin rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Crew, and Professional customers across the globe this week.

New ChatGPT function lets customers assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’

OpenAI is introducing a brand new means for customers to customise their interactions with ChatGPT. Some customers discovered they’ll specify a most well-liked title or nickname and “traits” they’d just like the chatbot to have. OpenAI suggests traits like “Chatty,” “Encouraging,” and “Gen Z.” Nonetheless, some users reported that the brand new choices have disappeared, so it’s potential they went stay prematurely.

December 2024

ChatGPT Search may be tricked into deceptive customers, new analysis reveals

ChatGPT Search may be fooled into producing fully deceptive summaries, The Guardian has found. They discovered ChatGPT may very well be prompted to disregard detrimental opinions and generate “completely optimistic” summaries by inserting hidden textual content into web sites it created and that ChatGPT Search is also made to spit out malicious code utilizing this technique.

Microsoft and OpenAI reportedly have a finance-centric definition of AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI have a really particular, inside definition of AGI based mostly on the startup’s earnings, in keeping with a brand new report from The Information. The 2 corporations reportedly signed an settlement stating OpenAI has solely achieved AGI when it develops AI techniques that may generate a minimum of $100 billion in revenue, which is much from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many would count on.

OpenAI educated o1 and o3 to ‘assume’ about its security coverage

OpenAI released new research outlining the corporate’s method to make sure AI reasoning fashions keep aligned with the values of their human builders. The startup used “deliberative alignment” to make o1 and o3 “assume” about OpenAI’s security coverage. In keeping with OpenAI’s analysis, the strategy decreased the speed at which o1 answered “unsafe” questions whereas bettering its skill to reply benign ones.

OpenAI pronounces new o3 reasoning fashions

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced the successors to its o1 reasoning mannequin household: o3 and o3-mini. The fashions should not extensively out there but, however security researchers can join a preview. The reveal marks the top of the “12 Days of OpenAI” occasion, which noticed bulletins for real-time imaginative and prescient capabilities, ChatGPT Search, and even a Santa voice for ChatGPT. 

OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landline

In an effort to make ChatGPT accessible to as many individuals as potential, OpenAI introduced a 1-800 quantity to name the chatbot — even from a landline or a flip telephone. Customers can name 1-800-CHATGPT, and ChatGPT will reply to your queries in an expertise that is kind of similar to Superior Voice Mode — minus the multimodality.

OpenAI is providing quarter-hour of free calling for U.S. customers. The corporate notes that commonplace service charges might apply.

OpenAI brings its ChatGPT Search to extra customers

OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Search to free, logged in customers. Search offers ChatGPT the flexibility to entry real-time info on the internet to raised reply your queries, however was solely out there for paid customers when it launched in October. Not solely is Search out there now without cost customers, nevertheless it’s additionally been built-in into Superior Voice Mode.

OpenAI blames large ChatGPT outage on a ‘new telemetry service’

OpenAI is blaming one of many longest outages in its historical past on a “new telemetry service” gone awry. OpenAI wrote in a postmortem that the outage wasn’t attributable to a safety incident or latest product launch, however by a telemetry service it deployed to gather Kubernetes metrics.

You can also make ChatGPT sound like Santa for a restricted time

OpenAI introduced that ChatGPT customers may entry a brand new “Santa Mode” voice throughout December. The function permits customers to talk with ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode, however with a Christmas twist. The voice sounds, properly, “merry and vivid,” as OpenAI described it. Assume boomy, jolly — kind of like each Santa you’ve ever heard.

OpenAI provides imaginative and prescient to Superior Voice Mode

OpenAI launched the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed practically seven months in the past. ChatGPT Plus, Crew, and Professional subscribers can use the app to level their telephones at objects and have ChatGPT reply in near-real-time. The function may perceive what’s on a tool’s display by means of display sharing.

There’s extra to come back from OpenAI by means of December 23. Tune in to our stay weblog to remain up to date.

ChatGPT and Sora hit with a serious outage

ChatGPT and Sora each skilled a serious outage Wednesday. Although customers suspected the outage was because of the rollout of ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence, OpenAI developer neighborhood lead Edwin Arbus denied it in a post on X, saying the “outage was unrelated to 12 Days of OpenAI or Apple Intelligence. We made a config change that induced many servers to change into unavailable.”

Canvas rolls out to everybody

Canvas, OpenAI’s collaboration-focused interface for writing and code initiatives, is now rolling out to all customers after being in beta for ChatGPT Plus members since October 2024. The corporate additionally introduced the flexibility to combine Python code inside Canvas in addition to bringing Canvas to customized GPTs.

OpenAI pauses Sora sign-ups as a result of excessive demand

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that as a result of increased than anticipated demand, they’re pausing new sign-ups for its video generator Sora and that video generations shall be slower in the interim. The corporate launched Sora as a part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” occasion following practically a yr of teasing the product.

OpenAI releases Sora for ChatGPT Plus and Professional subscribers

OpenAI has lastly launched its textual content to video mannequin, Sora. The mannequin can generate movies as much as 20 seconds lengthy in 1080p based mostly on textual content prompts or uploaded photographs, and may be “remixed” by means of extra person prompts. Sora is accessible beginning at present to ChatGPT Professional and Plus subscribers (besides within the EU). 

In Monday’s “12 Days of OpenAI” livestream, CEO Sam Altman mentioned that ChatGPT Plus members will get 50 video generations a month, whereas ChatGPT Professional customers will get “limitless” generations of their “sluggish queue mode” and 500 “regular” generations per 30 days.

There are nonetheless extra reveals to come back from OpenAI by means of December 23. Tune in to our stay weblog to remain up to date.

OpenAI launches $200 month-to-month ChatGPT Professional subscription — and full model of o1

On day certainly one of its 12 Days of OpenAI occasion, the corporate introduced a brand new — and costly — subscription plan. ChatGPT Professional is a $200-per-month tier that gives limitless entry to all of OpenAI’s fashions, together with the total model of its o1 “reasoning” mannequin. 

The complete model of o1, which was launched as a preview in September, can now motive about picture uploads and has been educated to be “extra concise in its pondering” to enhance response instances. 

Over the subsequent few weeks, we’ll be updating all of the information from OpenAI because it occurs on our stay weblog. Observe together with us!

OpenAI pronounces 12 days of reveals for the vacations

OpenAI introduced “12 Days of OpenAI,” which can function livestreams each weekday beginning December 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Every day’s stream is alleged to incorporate both a product launch or a demo in various sizes.

ChatGPT surpasses 300M weekly lively customers, Sam Altman says

On the New York Instances’ Dealbook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned that ChatGPT has surpassed 300 million weekly active users. The milestone comes just some months after the chatbot hit 200 million weekly active users in August 2024 and simply over a yr after reaching 100 million weekly lively customers in November 2023.

November 2024

Customers found the title ‘David Mayer’ crashed ChatGPT

ChatGPT customers found an attention-grabbing phenomenon: the favored chatbot refused to reply questions requested a couple of “David Mayer,” and asking it to take action induced it to freeze up immediately. Whereas the unusual habits spawned conspiracy theories, and a slew of different names being impacted, a way more abnormal motive could also be on the coronary heart of it: digital privacy requests.

Adverts is perhaps headed to ChatGPT 

OpenAI is toying with the thought of moving into advertisements. CFO Sarah Friar told the Financial Times it’s weighing an advertisements enterprise mannequin, with plans to be “considerate” about when and the place advertisements seem — although she later careworn that the corporate has “no lively plans to pursue promoting.” Nonetheless, the exploration might elevate eyebrows provided that Sam Altman lately mentioned ads would be a “last resort.”

Canadian information corporations sue OpenAI

A gaggle of Canadian media corporations, together with the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI. The businesses behind the swimsuit mentioned that OpenAI infringed their copyrights and are in search of to win financial damages — and ban OpenAI from making additional use of their work.

GPT-4o will get an improve

OpenAI introduced that its GPT-4o mannequin has been up to date to function extra “pure” and “participating” artistic writing skills in addition to extra thorough responses and insights when accessing recordsdata uploaded by customers.

OpenAI brings ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode to the net

ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode function is increasing to the net, permitting customers to speak to the chatbot by means of their browser. The conversational function is rolling out to ChatGPT’s paying Plus, Enterprise, Groups, or Edu subscribers.

ChatGPT can now learn a few of your Mac’s desktop apps

OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now learn code in a handful of developer-focused coding apps, reminiscent of VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 — which means that builders will not have to repeat and paste their code into ChatGPT. When the function is enabled, OpenAI will mechanically ship the part of code you’re engaged on by means of its chatbot as context, alongside your immediate.

OpenAI loses one other lead security researcher

Lilian Weng introduced on X that she is departing OpenAI. Weng served as VP of analysis and security since August, and earlier than that was the pinnacle of OpenAI’s security techniques staff. It’s the newest in a protracted string of AI security researchers,coverage researchers, and different executives who’ve exited the corporate within the final yr.

ChatGPT informed 2M folks to get their election information elsewhere

OpenAI acknowledged that it informed round 2 million customers of ChatGPT to go elsewhere for details about the 2024 U.S. election, and as an alternative advisable trusted information sources like Reuters and the Related Press.

In a weblog put up, OpenAI mentioned that ChatGPT despatched roughly 1,000,000 folks to CanIVote.org once they requested questions particular to voting within the lead-up to the election and rejected around 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates over the identical interval.

OpenAI acquires Chat.com

Including to its assortment of high-profile domains, Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. Final yr, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of many prime two all-time publicly reported area gross sales — although OpenAI declined to state how a lot it paid for it.

Meta’s former {hardware} lead for Orion is becoming a member of OpenAI

The previous head of Meta’s augmented actuality glasses efforts is becoming a member of OpenAI to guide robotics and client {hardware}. Kalinowski is a {hardware} govt who started main Meta’s AR glasses team in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the spectacular augmented actuality prototype that Meta lately confirmed off at its annual Join convention.

Apple customers will quickly be capable of improve to ChatGPT Plus within the Settings app

Apple is together with an choice to improve to ChatGPT Plus inside its Settings app, in keeping with an replace to the iOS 18.2 beta spotted by 9to5Mac. It will give Apple customers a direct route to enroll in OpenAI’s premium subscription plan, which prices $20 a month.

October 2024

Sam Altman says an absence of compute capability is delaying product releases

In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted {that a} lack of compute capability is one main issue stopping the corporate from transport merchandise as typically because it’d like, together with the imaginative and prescient capabilities for Superior Voice Mode first teased in Might. Altman additionally indicated that the subsequent main launch of DALL-E, OpenAI’s picture generator, has no launch timeline, and that Sora, OpenAI’s video-generating software, has additionally been held again.

Altman additionally admitted to using ChatGPT “sometimes” to reply questions all through the AMA.

OpenAI launches its Google search challenger

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer time. Powered by a fine-tuned model of OpenAI’s GPT-4o mannequin, ChatGPT Search serves up info and photographs from the net together with hyperlinks to related sources, at which level you possibly can ask follow-up inquiries to refine an ongoing search.

Superior Voice Mode involves Mac and PC

OpenAI has rolled out Superior Voice Mode to ChatGPT’s desktop apps for macOS and Home windows. For Mac customers, that signifies that each ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode can coexist with Siri on the identical machine, main the way in which for ChatGPT’s Apple Intelligence integration.

OpenAI is reportedly planning to construct its first AI chip

Reuters stories that OpenAI is working with TSMC and Broadcom to construct an in-house AI chip, which may arrive as quickly as 2026. It seems, a minimum of for now, the corporate has deserted plans to determine a community of factories for chip manufacturing and is as an alternative specializing in in-house chip design.

Now you can search by means of your ChatGPT historical past

OpenAI introduced it’s rolling out a function that enables customers to look by means of their ChatGPT chat histories on the internet. The brand new function will let customers carry up an previous chat to recollect one thing or decide again up a chat proper the place it was left off.

ChatGPT rolls out with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 replace 

With the discharge of iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence options powered by ChatGPT are actually out there to customers. The ChatGPT options embody built-in writing instruments, picture cleanup, article summaries, and a typing enter for the redesigned Siri expertise.

OpenAI says it received’t launch a mannequin referred to as Orion this yr

OpenAI denied stories that it’s aspiring to launch an AI mannequin, code-named Orion, by December of this yr. An OpenAI spokesperson informed TechCrunch that they “don’t have plans to launch a mannequin code-named Orion this yr,” however that leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.

ChatGPT involves Home windows

OpenAI has begun previewing a devoted Home windows app for ChatGPT. The corporate says the app is an early model and is presently solely out there to ChatGPT Plus, Crew, Enterprise, and Edu customers with a “full expertise” set to come back later this yr.

OpenAI inks new content material cope with Hearst

OpenAI struck a content deal with Hearst, the newspaper and journal writer recognized for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others. The partnership will enable OpenAI to floor tales from Hearst publications with citations and direct hyperlinks.

ChatGPT has a brand new ‘Canvas’ interface for writing and coding initiatives

OpenAI launched a brand new approach to work together with ChatGPT referred to as “Canvas.” The canvas workspace permits for customers to generate writing or code, then spotlight sections of the work to have the mannequin edit. Canvas is rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Groups, with a rollout to come back to Enterprise and Edu tier customers subsequent week.

OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B

OpenAI has closed the most important VC spherical of all time. The startup introduced it raised $6.6 billion in a funding spherical that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by earlier investor Thrive Capital, the brand new money brings OpenAI’s complete raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase.

Dev Day brings Realtime API to AI app builders

On the first of its 2024 Dev Day occasions, OpenAI introduced a brand new API software that can let builders construct practically real-time, speech-to-speech experiences of their apps, with the selection of utilizing six voices offered by OpenAI. These voices are distinct from these provided for ChatGPT, and builders can’t use third celebration voices, in an effort to stop copyright points.

September 2024

OpenAI would possibly elevate the worth of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029

OpenAI is planning to lift the worth of particular person ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per 30 days to $22 per 30 days by the top of the yr, in keeping with a report from The New York Instances. The report notes {that a} steeper enhance may come over the subsequent 5 years; by 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll cost $44 per 30 days for ChatGPT Plus.

Mira Murati exists OpenAI

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati introduced that she is leaving the corporate after greater than six years. Hours after the announcement, OpenAI’s chief analysis officer, Bob McGrew, and a analysis VP, Barret Zoph, additionally left the corporate. CEO Sam Altman revealed the 2 newest resignations in a put up on X, together with management transition plans.

OpenAI rolls out Superior Voice Mode with extra voices and a brand new look

After a delay, OpenAI is lastly rolling out Superior Voice Mode to an expanded set of ChatGPT’s paying clients. AVM can be getting a revamped design — the function is now represented by a blue animated sphere as an alternative of the animated black dots that have been offered again in Might. OpenAI is highlighting enhancements in conversational pace, accents in international languages, and 5 new voices as a part of the rollout.

YouTuber finds a approach to run ChatGPT on a graphing calculator

A video from YouTube creator ChromaLock showcased how one can modify a TI-84 graphing calculator in order that it will possibly hook up with the web and access ChatGPT, touting it because the “final dishonest machine.” As demonstrated within the video, it’s a reasonably difficult course of for the common highschool scholar to comply with — nevertheless it would possibly stoke extra issues from academics in regards to the ongoing issues about ChatGPT and dishonest in faculties.

OpenAI pronounces OpenAI o1, a brand new mannequin that may fact-check itself

OpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also called “Strawberry.” The gathering of fashions can be found in ChatGPT and by way of OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1 mini. The corporate claims that o1 can extra successfully motive by means of math and science and fact-check itself by spending extra time contemplating all elements of a command or query.

In contrast to ChatGPT, o1 can’t browse the net or analyze recordsdata but, is rate-limited and costly in comparison with different fashions. OpenAI says it plans to carry o1-mini entry to all free customers of ChatGPT, however hasn’t set a launch date.

A hacker was in a position to trick ChatGPT into giving directions on how one can make bombs

An artist and hacker discovered a approach to jailbreak ChatGPT to provide directions for making highly effective explosives, a request that the chatbot usually refuses. An explosives knowledgeable who reviewed the chatbot’s output informed TechCrunch that the directions may very well be used to make a detonatable product and was too delicate to be launched. 

OpenAI reaches 1 million paid customers of its company choices

OpenAI introduced it has surpassed 1 million paid users for its variations of ChatGPT meant for companies, together with ChatGPT Crew, ChatGPT Enterprise and its academic providing, ChatGPT Edu. The corporate mentioned that almost half of OpenAI’s company customers are based mostly within the US.

Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT assistant to the US

Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to autos in the US. Its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant is an AI chatbot based mostly on Cerence’s Chat Professional product and a LLM from OpenAI and can start rolling out on September 6 with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI fashions.

August 2024

OpenAI inks content material cope with Condé Nast

As a part of the brand new deal, OpenAI will floor tales from Condé Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Vainness Truthful, Bon Appétit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the “multi-year” deal will contain cost from OpenAI in some kind and a Condé Nast spokesperson informed TechCrunch that OpenAI can have permission to coach on Condé Nast content material.

Our first impressions of ChatGPT’s Superior Voice Mode

TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff has been taking part in round with OpenAI’s Superior Voice Mode, in what he describes as “essentially the most convincing style I’ve had of an AI-powered future but.” In comparison with Siri or Alexa, Superior Voice Mode stands out with sooner response instances, distinctive solutions and the flexibility to reply complicated questions. However the function falls quick as an efficient substitute for digital assistants.

OpenAI shuts down election affect operation that used ChatGPT

OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian affect operation that was producing content material in regards to the U.S. presidential election. OpenAI identified five website fronts presenting as each progressive and conservative information retailers that used ChatGPT to draft a number of long-form articles, although it doesn’t appear that it reached a lot of an viewers.

OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some bizarre stuff typically

OpenAI has discovered that GPT-4o, which powers the lately launched alpha of Superior Voice Mode in ChatGPT, can behave in unusual methods. In a brand new “crimson teaming” report, OpenAI reveals a few of GPT-4o’s weirder quirks, like mimicking the voice of the particular person chatting with it or randomly shouting in the course of a dialog.

ChatGPT’s cell app stories its greatest month but

After a giant leap following the discharge of OpenAI’s new GPT-4o “omni” mannequin, the cell model of ChatGPT has now seen its greatest month of income but. The app pulled in $28 million in internet income from the App Retailer and Google Play in July, in keeping with information offered by app intelligence agency Appfigures.

OpenAI may doubtlessly catch college students who cheat with ChatGPT

OpenAI has constructed a watermarking software that would doubtlessly catch college students who cheat by utilizing ChatGPT — however The Wall Street Journal reports that the corporate is debating whether or not to truly launch it. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the corporate is researching instruments that may detect writing from ChatGPT, however mentioned it’s taking a “deliberate method” to releasing it.

July 2024

ChatGPT’s superior Voice Mode begins rolling out to some customers

OpenAI is giving customers their first entry to GPT-4o’s up to date lifelike audio responses. The alpha model is now out there to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers, and the corporate says the function will progressively roll out to all Plus customers within the fall of 2024. The discharge follows controversy surrounding the voice’s similarity to Scarlett Johansson, main OpenAI to delay its launch.

OpenAI pronounces new search prototype, SearchGPT

OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a brand new AI search expertise to compete with Google. SearchGPT goals to raise search queries with “well timed solutions” from throughout the web, in addition to the flexibility to ask follow-up questions. The momentary prototype is presently solely out there to a small group of customers and its writer companions, like The Atlantic, for testing and suggestions.

OpenAI may lose $5 billion this yr, report claims

A brand new report from The Information, based mostly on undisclosed monetary info, claims OpenAI may lose as much as $5 billion as a result of how expensive the enterprise is to function. The report additionally says the corporate may spend as a lot as $7 billion in 2024 to coach and function ChatGPT.

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini

OpenAI launched its newest small AI mannequin, GPT-4o mini. The corporate says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and sooner than OpenAI’s present AI fashions, outperforms business main small AI fashions on reasoning duties involving textual content and imaginative and prescient. GPT-4o mini will change GPT-3.5 Turbo because the smallest mannequin OpenAI provides. 

OpenAI companions with Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratory for bioscience analysis

OpenAI introduced a partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to review how AI may be employed by scientists in an effort to advance analysis in healthcare and bioscience. This follows different health-related analysis collaborations at OpenAI, together with Moderna and Color Health.

June 2024

OpenAI makes CriticGPT to search out errors in GPT-4

OpenAI introduced it has educated a mannequin off of GPT-4, dubbed CriticGPT, which goals to search out errors in ChatGPT’s code output to allow them to make enhancements and higher assist so-called human “AI trainers” fee the standard and accuracy of ChatGPT responses.

OpenAI inks content material cope with TIME

OpenAI and TIME introduced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the journal’s content material, each fashionable and archival, to ChatGPT. As a part of the deal, TIME can even acquire entry to OpenAI’s expertise in an effort to develop new audience-based merchandise.

OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode

OpenAI deliberate to begin rolling out its superior Voice Mode function to a small group of ChatGPT Plus customers in late June, nevertheless it says lingering points pressured it to postpone the launch to July. OpenAI says Superior Voice Mode won’t launch for all ChatGPT Plus clients till the autumn, relying on whether or not it meets sure inside security and reliability checks.

ChatGPT releases app for Mac

ChatGPT for macOS is now out there for all customers. With the app, customers can shortly name up ChatGPT by utilizing the keyboard mixture of Choice + House. The app permits customers to add recordsdata and different photographs, in addition to converse to ChatGPT from their desktop and search by means of their previous conversations.

Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, together with Siri

Apple introduced at WWDC 2024 that it’s bringing ChatGPT to Siri and different first-party apps and capabilities throughout its working techniques. The ChatGPT integrations, powered by GPT-4o, will arrive on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia later this yr, and shall be free with out the necessity to create a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Options unique to paying ChatGPT customers will also be available through Apple devices.

Home Oversight subcommittee invitations Scarlett Johansson to testify about ‘Sky’ controversy

Scarlett Johansson has been invited to testify in regards to the controversy surrounding OpenAI’s Sky voice at a listening to for the Home Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Data Know-how, and Authorities Innovation. In a letter, Rep. Nancy Mace mentioned Johansson’s testimony may “present a platform” for issues round deepfakes.

ChatGPT experiences two outages in a single day

ChatGPT was down twice in at some point: one multi-hour outage within the early hours of the morning Tuesday and one other outage later within the day that’s nonetheless ongoing. Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity additionally skilled some points.

Might 2024

The Atlantic and Vox Media ink content material offers with OpenAI

The Atlantic and Vox Media have introduced licensing and product partnerships with OpenAI. Each agreements enable OpenAI to make use of the publishers’ present content material to generate responses in ChatGPT, which can function citations to related articles. Vox Media says it’ll use OpenAI’s expertise to construct “audience-facing and internal applications,” whereas The Atlantic will construct a new experimental product called Atlantic Labs.

OpenAI indicators 100K PwC employees to ChatGPT’s enterprise tier

OpenAI introduced a brand new cope with administration consulting large PwC. The corporate will change into OpenAI’s greatest buyer so far, overlaying 100,000 customers, and can change into OpenAI’s first associate for promoting its enterprise choices to different companies.

OpenAI says it’s coaching its GPT-4 successor

OpenAI introduced in a weblog put up that it has recently begun training its next flagship model to succeed GPT-4. The information got here in an announcement of its new security and safety committee, which is liable for informing security and safety selections throughout OpenAI’s merchandise.

Former OpenAI director claims the board discovered about ChatGPT on Twitter

On the The TED AI Present podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed that the board didn’t learn about ChatGPT until its launch in November 2022. Toner additionally mentioned that Sam Altman gave the board inaccurate details about the security processes the corporate had in place and that he didn’t disclose his involvement within the OpenAI Startup Fund.

ChatGPT’s cell app income noticed greatest spike but following GPT-4o launch

The launch of GPT-4o has pushed the corporate’s biggest-ever spike in income on cell, regardless of the mannequin being freely out there on the internet. Cellular customers are being pushed to improve to its $19.99 month-to-month subscription, ChatGPT Plus, in the event that they wish to experiment with OpenAI’s most up-to-date launch.

OpenAI to take away ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice

After demoing its new GPT-4o mannequin final week, OpenAI introduced it’s pausing certainly one of its voices, Sky, after customers discovered that it sounded just like Scarlett Johansson in “Her.”

OpenAI defined in a blog post that Sky’s voice is “not an imitation” of the actress and that AI voices shouldn’t deliberately mimic the voice of a star. The weblog put up went on to clarify how the corporate selected its voices: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.

ChatGPT enables you to add recordsdata from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive

OpenAI introduced new updates for easier data analysis within ChatGPT. Customers can now add recordsdata instantly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, work together with tables and charts, and export personalized charts for displays. The corporate says these enhancements shall be added to GPT-4o within the coming weeks.

OpenAI inks deal to coach AI on Reddit information

OpenAI introduced a partnership with Reddit that can give the corporate entry to “real-time, structured and distinctive content material” from the social community. Content material from Reddit shall be integrated into ChatGPT, and the businesses will work collectively to carry new AI-powered options to Reddit customers and moderators.

OpenAI debuts GPT-4o “omni” mannequin now powering ChatGPT

OpenAI’s spring replace occasion noticed the reveal of its new omni mannequin, GPT-4o, which has a black hole-like interface, in addition to voice and imaginative and prescient capabilities that really feel eerily like one thing out of “Her.” GPT-4o is about to roll out “iteratively” throughout its developer and consumer-facing merchandise over the subsequent few weeks.

OpenAI to construct a software that lets content material creators choose out of AI coaching

The corporate introduced it’s constructing a software, Media Supervisor, that can enable creators to raised management how their content material is getting used to coach generative AI fashions — and provides them an choice to choose out. The aim is to have the brand new software in place and able to use by 2025.

OpenAI explores permitting AI porn

In a brand new peek backstage of its AI’s secret directions, OpenAI additionally launched a brand new NSFW coverage. Although it’s meant to begin a dialog about the way it would possibly enable express photographs and textual content in its AI merchandise, it raises questions on whether or not OpenAI — or any generative AI vendor — may be trusted to deal with delicate content material ethically.

OpenAI and Stack Overflow announce partnership

In a brand new partnership, OpenAI will get access to developer platform Stack Overflow’s API and can get suggestions from builders to enhance the efficiency of their AI fashions. In return, OpenAI will embody attributions to Stack Overflow in ChatGPT. Nonetheless, the deal was not favorable to some Stack Overflow customers — leading to some sabotaging their answer in protest.

April 2024

Alden World Capital-owned newspapers, together with the New York Every day Information, the Chicago Tribune, and the Denver Submit, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the businesses stole tens of millions of copyrighted articles “with out permission and with out cost” to bolster ChatGPT and Copilot.

OpenAI inks content material licensing cope with Monetary Instances

OpenAI has partnered with one other information writer in Europe, London’s Monetary Instances, that the corporate shall be paying for content material entry. “By means of the partnership, ChatGPT customers will be capable of see choose attributed summaries, quotes and wealthy hyperlinks to FT journalism in response to related queries,” the FT wrote in a press launch.

OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, provides GPT-4 mannequin optimized for Japanese

OpenAI is opening a brand new workplace in Tokyo and has plans for a GPT-4 mannequin optimized particularly for the Japanese language. The transfer underscores how OpenAI will seemingly have to localize its expertise to totally different languages because it expands.

Sam Altman pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to Fortune 500 corporations

In keeping with Reuters, OpenAI’s Sam Altman hosted hundreds of executives from Fortune 500 corporations throughout a number of cities in April, pitching variations of its AI companies meant for company use.

OpenAI releases “extra direct, much less verbose” model of GPT-4 Turbo

Premium ChatGPT customers — clients paying for ChatGPT Plus, Crew or Enterprise — can now use an up to date and enhanced model of GPT-4 Turbo. The brand new mannequin brings with it enhancements in writing, math, logical reasoning and coding, OpenAI claims, in addition to a extra up-to-date information base.

ChatGPT not requires an account — however there’s a catch

Now you can use ChatGPT with out signing up for an account, nevertheless it received’t be fairly the identical expertise. You received’t be capable of save or share chats, use customized directions, or different options related to a persistent account. This model of ChatGPT can have “barely extra restrictive content material insurance policies,” in keeping with OpenAI. When TechCrunch requested for extra particulars, nevertheless, the response was unclear:

“The signed out expertise will profit from the present security mitigations which are already constructed into the mannequin, reminiscent of refusing to generate dangerous content material. Along with these current mitigations, we’re additionally implementing extra safeguards particularly designed to deal with different types of content material that could be inappropriate for a signed out expertise,” a spokesperson mentioned.

March 2024

OpenAI’s chatbot retailer is filling up with spam

TechCrunch discovered that the OpenAI’s GPT Retailer is flooded with weird, doubtlessly copyright-infringing GPTs. A cursory search pulls up GPTs that declare to generate artwork within the fashion of Disney and Marvel properties, however function little greater than funnels to third-party paid companies and promote themselves as with the ability to bypass AI content material detection instruments.

The New York Instances responds to OpenAI’s claims that it “hacked” ChatGPT for its copyright lawsuit

In a court filing opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss The New York Times’ lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the newspaper asserted that “OpenAI’s attention-grabbing declare that The Instances ‘hacked’ its merchandise is as irrelevant as it’s false.” The New York Instances additionally claimed that some customers of ChatGPT used the software to bypass its paywalls.

OpenAI VP doesn’t say whether or not artists must be paid for coaching information

At a SXSW 2024 panel, Peter Deng, OpenAI’s VP of client product dodged a query on whether or not artists whose work was used to coach generative AI fashions must be compensated. Whereas OpenAI lets artists “choose out” of and take away their work from the datasets that the corporate makes use of to coach its image-generating fashions, some artists have described the software as onerous.

A brand new report estimates that ChatGPT makes use of greater than half 1,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy per day

ChatGPT’s environmental affect seems to be large. In keeping with a report from The New Yorker, ChatGPT makes use of an estimated 17,000 instances the quantity of electrical energy than the common U.S. family to reply to roughly 200 million requests every day.

ChatGPT can now learn its solutions aloud

OpenAI launched a brand new Read Aloud feature for the net model of ChatGPT in addition to the iOS and Android apps. The function permits ChatGPT to learn its responses to queries in certainly one of 5 voice choices and may converse 37 languages, in keeping with the corporate. Learn aloud is accessible on each GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 fashions.

January 2025

OpenAI companions with Dublin Metropolis Council to make use of GPT-4 for tourism

As a part of a brand new partnership with OpenAI, the Dublin City Council will use GPT-4 to craft personalised itineraries for vacationers, together with suggestions of distinctive and cultural locations, in an effort to assist tourism throughout Europe.

A legislation agency used ChatGPT to justify a six-figure invoice for authorized companies

New York-based legislation agency Cuddy Regulation was criticized by a choose for using ChatGPT to calculate their hourly billing rate. The agency submitted a $113,500 invoice to the court docket, which was then halved by District Choose Paul Engelmayer, who referred to as the determine “properly above” affordable calls for.

ChatGPT skilled a weird bug for a number of hours

ChatGPT customers discovered that ChatGPT was giving nonsensical answers for several hours, prompting OpenAI to analyze the problem. Incidents assorted from repetitive phrases to complicated and incorrect solutions to queries. The problem was resolved by OpenAI the next morning.

Match Group introduced cope with OpenAI with a press launch co-written by ChatGPT

The courting app large house to Tinder, Match and OkCupid introduced an enterprise settlement with OpenAI in an enthusiastic press release written with the help of ChatGPT. The AI tech will be used to assist workers with work-related duties and are available as a part of Match’s $20 million-plus wager on AI in 2024.

ChatGPT will now bear in mind — and overlook — belongings you inform it to

As a part of a take a look at, OpenAI started rolling out new “reminiscence” controls for a small portion of ChatGPT free and paid customers, with a broader rollout to comply with. The controls allow you to inform ChatGPT explicitly to recollect one thing, see what it remembers or flip off its reminiscence altogether. Word that deleting a chat from chat historical past received’t erase ChatGPT’s or a customized GPT’s recollections — you should delete the reminiscence itself.

OpenAI begins rolling out “Non permanent Chat” function

Initially restricted to a small subset of free and subscription customers, Non permanent Chat lets you could have a dialogue with a clean slate. With Non permanent Chat, ChatGPT received’t pay attention to earlier conversations or entry recollections however will comply with customized directions in the event that they’re enabled.

However, OpenAI says it might make a copy of Non permanent Chat conversations for as much as 30 days for “security causes.”

January 2024

ChatGPT customers can now invoke GPTs instantly in chats

Paid customers of ChatGPT can now carry GPTs right into a dialog by typing “@” and deciding on a GPT from the checklist. The chosen GPT can have an understanding of the total dialog, and totally different GPTs may be “tagged in” for various use instances and desires.

ChatGPT is reportedly leaking usernames and passwords from customers’ non-public conversations

Screenshots offered to Ars Technica discovered that ChatGPT is potentially leaking unpublished research papers, login credentials and private information from its customers. An OpenAI consultant informed Ars Technica that the corporate was investigating the report.

ChatGPT is violating Europe’s privateness legal guidelines, Italian DPA tells OpenAI

OpenAI has been informed it’s suspected of violating European Union privateness, following a multi-month investigation of ChatGPT by Italy’s information safety authority. Particulars of the draft findings haven’t been disclosed, however in a response, OpenAI mentioned: “We wish our AI to study in regards to the world, not about non-public people.”

OpenAI companions with Widespread Sense Media to collaborate on AI tips

In an effort to win the belief of fogeys and policymakers, OpenAI introduced it’s partnering with Widespread Sense Media to collaborate on AI tips and schooling supplies for folks, educators and younger adults. The group works to establish and reduce tech harms to younger folks and beforehand flagged ChatGPT as missing in transparency and privateness.

OpenAI responds to Congressional Black Caucus about lack of range on its board

After a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the shortage of range in OpenAI’s board, the corporate responded. The response, signed by CEO Sam Altman and Chairman of the Board Bret Taylor, mentioned constructing an entire and various board was one of many firm’s prime priorities and that it was working with an govt search agency to help it to find expertise. 

OpenAI drops costs and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work

In a blog post, OpenAI introduced value drops for GPT-3.5’s API, with enter costs dropping to 50% and output by 25%, to $0.0005 per thousand tokens in, and $0.0015 per thousand tokens out. GPT-4 Turbo additionally received a brand new preview mannequin for API use, which incorporates an attention-grabbing repair that goals to scale back “laziness” that customers have skilled.

OpenAI bans developer of a bot impersonating a presidential candidate

OpenAI has suspended AI startup Delphi, which developed a bot impersonating Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) to assist bolster his presidential marketing campaign. The ban comes simply weeks after OpenAI printed a plan to fight election misinformation, which listed “chatbots impersonating candidates” as towards its coverage.

OpenAI pronounces partnership with Arizona State College

Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier, which the college plans to make use of to construct a personalised AI tutor, develop AI avatars, bolster their immediate engineering course and extra. It marks OpenAI’s first partnership with the next schooling establishment.

Winner of a literary prize reveals round 5% her novel was written by ChatGPT

After receiving the distinguished Akutagawa Prize for her novel The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, creator Rie Kudan admitted that around 5% of the book quoted ChatGPT-generated sentences “verbatim.” Apparently sufficient, the novel revolves round a futuristic world with a pervasive presence of AI.

Sam Altman teases video capabilities for ChatGPT and the discharge of GPT-5

In a dialog with Invoice Gates on the Unconfuse Me podcast, Sam Altman confirmed an upcoming launch of GPT-5 that shall be “totally multimodal with speech, picture, code, and video assist.” Altman mentioned customers can count on to see GPT-5 drop someday in 2024.

OpenAI pronounces staff to construct ‘crowdsourced’ governance concepts into its fashions

OpenAI is forming a Collective Alignment staff of researchers and engineers to create a system for accumulating and “encoding” public enter on its fashions’ behaviors into OpenAI services and products. This comes as part of OpenAI’s public program to award grants to fund experiments in establishing a “democratic course of” for figuring out the foundations AI techniques comply with.

OpenAI unveils plan to fight election misinformation

In a blog post, OpenAI announced customers is not going to be allowed to construct functions for political campaigning and lobbying till the corporate works out how efficient their instruments are for “personalised persuasion.”

Customers can even be banned from creating chatbots that impersonate candidates or authorities establishments, and from utilizing OpenAI instruments to misrepresent the voting course of or in any other case discourage voting.

The corporate can be testing out a software that detects DALL-E generated photographs and can incorporate entry to real-time information, with attribution, in ChatGPT.

OpenAI adjustments coverage to permit army functions

In an unannounced replace to its utilization coverage, OpenAI eliminated language beforehand prohibiting using its merchandise for the needs of “army and warfare.” In an extra assertion, OpenAI confirmed that the language was modified in an effort to accommodate army clients and initiatives that don’t violate their ban on efforts to make use of their instruments to “hurt folks, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property.”

ChatGPT subscription aimed toward small groups debuts

Aptly referred to as ChatGPT Crew, the brand new plan supplies a devoted workspace for groups of as much as 149 folks utilizing ChatGPT in addition to admin instruments for staff administration. Along with having access to GPT-4, GPT-4 with Imaginative and prescient and DALL-E3, ChatGPT Crew lets groups construct and share GPTs for his or her enterprise wants.

OpenAI’s GPT retailer formally launches

After some forwards and backwards over the previous few months, OpenAI’s GPT Retailer is lastly right here. The function lives in a brand new tab within the ChatGPT net shopper, and features a vary of GPTs developed each by OpenAI’s companions and the broader dev neighborhood.

To entry the GPT Retailer, customers have to be subscribed to certainly one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans — ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Crew.

Growing AI fashions could be “not possible” with out copyrighted supplies, OpenAI claims

Following a proposed ban on using news publications and books to train AI chatbots within the U.Ok., OpenAI submitted a plea to the Home of Lords communications and digital committee. OpenAI argued that it might be “not possible” to coach AI fashions with out utilizing copyrighted supplies, and that they imagine copyright legislation “doesn’t forbid coaching.”

OpenAI claims The New York Instances’ copyright lawsuit is with out advantage

OpenAI printed a public response to The New York Instances’s lawsuit towards them and Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright legislation, claiming that the case is with out advantage.

In the response, OpenAI reiterates its view that coaching AI fashions utilizing publicly out there information from the net is honest use. It additionally makes the case that regurgitation is much less prone to happen with coaching information from a single supply and locations the onus on customers to “act responsibly.”

OpenAI’s app retailer for GPTs deliberate to launch subsequent week

After being delayed in December, OpenAI plans to launch its GPT Retailer someday within the coming week, in keeping with an e-mail seen by TechCrunch. OpenAI says builders constructing GPTs must evaluation the corporate’s up to date utilization insurance policies and GPT model tips to make sure their GPTs are compliant earlier than they’re eligible for itemizing within the GPT Retailer. OpenAI’s replace notably didn’t embody any info on the anticipated monetization alternatives for builders itemizing their apps on the storefront.

OpenAI strikes to shrink regulatory threat in EU round information privateness

In an e-mail, OpenAI detailed an incoming replace to its phrases, together with altering the OpenAI entity offering companies to EEA and Swiss residents to OpenAI Eire Restricted. The transfer seems to be meant to shrink its regulatory threat within the European Union, the place the corporate has been underneath scrutiny over ChatGPT’s affect on folks’s privateness.

FAQs:

What’s ChatGPT? How does it work?

ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that makes use of synthetic intelligence to generate textual content after a person enters a immediate, developed by tech startup OpenAI. The chatbot makes use of GPT-4, a big language mannequin that makes use of deep studying to provide human-like textual content.

When did ChatGPT get launched?

November 30, 2022 is when ChatGPT was launched for public use.

What’s the newest model of ChatGPT?

Each the free model of ChatGPT and the paid ChatGPT Plus are recurrently up to date with new GPT fashions. The latest mannequin is GPT-4o.

Can I take advantage of ChatGPT without cost?

There’s a free model of ChatGPT that solely requires a sign-in along with the paid model, ChatGPT Plus.

Who makes use of ChatGPT?

Anybody can use ChatGPT! Increasingly more tech corporations and serps are using the chatbot to automate textual content or shortly reply person questions/issues.

What corporations use ChatGPT?

A number of enterprises make the most of ChatGPT, though others might restrict using the AI-powered software.

Most lately, Microsoft introduced at its 2023 Construct convention that it’s integrating it ChatGPT-based Bing expertise into Home windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D show startup Wanting Glass makes use of ChatGPT to provide holograms you possibly can talk with by utilizing ChatGPT.  And nonprofit group Solana formally built-in the chatbot into its community with a ChatGPT plug-in geared towards finish customers to assist onboard into the web3 area.

What does GPT imply in ChatGPT?

GPT stands for Generative Pre-Skilled Transformer.

What’s the distinction between ChatGPT and a chatbot?

A chatbot may be any software program/system that holds dialogue with you/an individual however doesn’t essentially need to be AI-powered. For instance, there are chatbots which are rules-based within the sense that they’ll give canned responses to questions.

ChatGPT is AI-powered and makes use of LLM expertise to generate textual content after a immediate.

Can ChatGPT write essays?

Sure.

Can ChatGPT commit libel?

As a result of nature of how these fashions work, they don’t know or care whether or not one thing is true, solely that it appears true. That’s an issue if you’re utilizing it to do your homework, certain, however when it accuses you of against the law you didn’t commit, that will properly at this level be libel.

We’ll see how dealing with troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the subsequent few months as tech and authorized consultants try and sort out the quickest shifting goal within the business.

Does ChatGPT have an app?

Sure, there’s a free ChatGPT cell app for iOS and Android customers.

What’s the ChatGPT character restrict?

It’s not documented wherever that ChatGPT has a personality restrict. Nonetheless, customers have famous that there are some character limitations after round 500 phrases.

Does ChatGPT have an API?

Sure, it was launched March 1, 2023.

What are some pattern on a regular basis makes use of for ChatGPT?

On a regular basis examples embody programming, scripts, e-mail replies, listicles, weblog concepts, summarization, and so on.

What are some superior makes use of for ChatGPT?

Superior use examples embody debugging code, programming languages, scientific ideas, complicated drawback fixing, and so on.

How good is ChatGPT at writing code?

It relies on the character of this system. Whereas ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it will possibly’t essentially program a complete app’s value of code. That’s as a result of ChatGPT lacks context consciousness — in different phrases, the generated code isn’t at all times applicable for the particular context through which it’s getting used.

Are you able to save a ChatGPT chat?

Sure. OpenAI permits customers to save lots of chats within the ChatGPT interface, saved within the sidebar of the display. There are not any built-in sharing options but.

Are there alternate options to ChatGPT?

Sure. There are a number of AI-powered chatbot opponents reminiscent of Together, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, and builders are creating open supply alternate options.

How does ChatGPT deal with information privateness?

OpenAI has mentioned that people in “sure jurisdictions” (such because the EU) can object to the processing of their private info by its AI fashions by filling out this form. This contains the flexibility to make requests for deletion of AI-generated references about you. Though OpenAI notes it might not grant each request because it should steadiness privateness requests towards freedom of expression “in accordance with relevant legal guidelines”.

The net kind for making a deletion of knowledge about you request is entitled “OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request”.

In its privateness coverage, the ChatGPT maker makes a passing acknowledgement of the objection necessities connected to counting on “professional curiosity” (LI), pointing customers in the direction of extra details about requesting an choose out — when it writes: “See here for directions on how one can choose out of our use of your info to coach our fashions.”

What controversies have surrounded ChatGPT?

Lately, Discord introduced that it had built-in OpenAI’s expertise into its bot named Clyde the place two customers tricked Clyde into offering them with directions for making the unlawful drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary combination napalm.

An Australian mayor has publicly introduced he may sue OpenAI for defamation as a result of ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in jail for bribery. This is able to be the primary defamation lawsuit towards the text-generating service.

CNET discovered itself within the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles underneath a mysterious byline fully generated by AI. The non-public fairness firm that owns CNET, Crimson Ventures, was accused of utilizing ChatGPT for search engine optimization farming, even when the knowledge was incorrect.

A number of main college techniques and faculties, together with New York Metropolis Public Faculties, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and gadgets. They declare that the AI impedes the educational course of by selling plagiarism and misinformation, a declare that not every educator agrees with.

There have additionally been instances of ChatGPT accusing people of false crimes.

The place can I discover examples of ChatGPT prompts?

A number of marketplaces host and supply ChatGPT prompts, both without cost or for a nominal price. One is PromptBase. One other is ChatX. Extra launch each day.

Can ChatGPT be detected?

Poorly. A number of instruments declare to detect ChatGPT-generated textual content, however in our checks, they’re inconsistent at finest.

Are ChatGPT chats public?

No. However OpenAI recently disclosed a bug, since fastened, that uncovered the titles of some customers’ conversations to different folks on the service.

What lawsuits are there surrounding ChatGPT?

None particularly focusing on ChatGPT. However OpenAI is involved in a minimum of one lawsuit that has implications for AI techniques educated on publicly out there information, which might contact on ChatGPT.

Are there points relating to plagiarism with ChatGPT?

Sure. Textual content-generating AI fashions like ChatGPT tend to regurgitate content material from their coaching information.



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