But OpenAI has received more than $13 billion in funding from Microsoft over the years, and that money has come with a strange contractual agreement that OpenAI would stop allowing Microsoft to use any new technology it develops after AGI is achieved.

This week, I’m dedicating the newsletter to a conversation I had recently with the futurist Zack Kass about some of the risks and myths that will come with the advent of AI across business and society. Kass, who was head of go-to-market at OpenAI, is the author of the upcoming book, The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential.

DeepSeek, which recently unveiled DeepSeek-R1, an answer to OpenAI’s o1 “reasoning” model, is a curious organization. It’s backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese quantitative hedge fund that uses AI to inform its trading decisions.

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we’re now in the “second era of scaling laws,” noting how established methods of improving AI models were showing diminishing returns. One promising new method they suggested could keep gains was “test-time scaling,

"ChatGPT, the API and Sora are currently experiencing high error rates. The issue is caused by an upstream provider and we are currently monitoring," the artificial intelligence company posted in an update to its status page after the technical glitches cropped up at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern.

OpenAI's challenges in 2024 will shape the future of AI, setting precedence for AI regulation, AI governance and usage of data to train AI models.

ChatGPT users noticed that the OpenAI platform suddenly crashed today. Find out the reason why and get a status update.

The latest AI model from OpenAI achieved an “impressive leap in performance” but it still hasn’t demonstrated what experts classify as human-level intelligence

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation. His biggest hurdle is Microsoft, which has outsize influence on the process after having committed more than $13 billion to OpenAI.

A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own.

Sam Altman finished the OpenAI "12 days of shipmas" with a reveal of ChatGPT o3 and a new method called deliberative alignment. Here's the big deal on this new technique.