OpenAI exec leaves to found materials science startup

Liam Fedus, OpenAI’s VP of research for post-training, is leaving the company to found a materials…

OpenAI to start testing ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive and Slack

OpenAI will soon begin testing a way for business customers to connect apps like Slack and…

Week in Review: SXSW week comes to a close

Welcome back to Week in Review! I’m Karyne Levy, TechCrunch’s deputy managing editor, and I’ll be…

OpenAI and Musk agree to fast tracked trial over for-profit shift

OpenAI and Musk agree to fast tracked trial over for-profit shift#OpenAI #Musk #agree #fast #tracked #trial…

SoftBank buys $676M old Sharp plant for its OpenAI collab in Japan

SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its…

OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models

In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled,” and…

OpenAI’s ‘creative writing’ AI evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club

When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets,…

OpenAI calls for U.S. government to codify ‘fair use’ for AI training

In a proposal for the U.S. government’s “AI Action Plan,” the Trump Administration’s initiative to reshape…

OpenAI says it has trained an AI that’s ‘really good’ at creative writing

Watch out, fiction writers. OpenAI may have you in its crosshairs. In a post on X…

OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents

On Tuesday, OpenAI released new tools designed to help developers and enterprises build AI agents –…

In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave

In a grandmaster-level chest move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with GPU-heavy cloud…

Musk may still have a chance to thwart OpenAI’s for-profit conversion

Elon Musk lost the latest battle in his lawsuit against OpenAI this week, but a federal…

Week in Review: OpenAI could charge $20K a month for an AI agent

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at OpenAI potentially charging $20,000 a…

Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own…

Microsoft developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI, The Information reports

Microsoft developing AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI, The Information reports#Microsoft #developing #reasoning #models #compete…

ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases

OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according…

ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform, can now directly edit code — if you’re on macOS, that…

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially…

OpenAI’s ex-policy lead criticizes the company for ‘rewriting’ its AI safety history

A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI…

Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation

As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on…

A year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning tool

Late last March, OpenAI announced a “small-scale preview” of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the…

Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions

Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on…