#OpenAI Raises .6B in Massive Funding Round

#OpenAI Raises $6.6B in Massive Funding Round

OpenAI has closed a massive $6.6 billion funding round that values the generative artificial intelligence giant at $157 billion. The company announced the news in a blog post Wednesday, writing that “the new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that…

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#Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion

#Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion

Meta Connect 2024 was this week, showcasing new hardware and software to support two of the company’s big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new Quest headsets, updates to Meta’s Llama AI model, and real-time video capabilities of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The biggest reveal, though, was Orion, a true AR glasses…

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#Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

#Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into…

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#Crypto scammers hack OpenAI’s press account on X

#Crypto scammers hack OpenAI’s press account on X

OpenAI’s official press account on X appears to have been compromised by the same cryptocurrency scammers who did the same with company leadership in previous months. Late Monday afternoon, OpenAI Newsroom, an account OpenAI recently created to spotlight product- and policy-related announcements, posted about a supposedly new OpenAI-branded blockchain token, “$OPENAI.” “We’re very happy to…

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#OpenAI previews its new Strawberry model

#OpenAI previews its new Strawberry model

OpenAI this week unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also known as Strawberry. The company claims that o1 can more effectively reason through math and science, as well as fact-check itself by spending more time considering all parts of a query. The family of models is available in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API, though OpenAI…

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#Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

#Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into…

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