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OpenAI just made ChatGPT Plus free for millions of college students — and it’s a brilliant competitive move against Anthropic

OpenAI has made its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all college students in the United States and Canada through the end of May, a move announced Thursday that intensifies the competition with rival Anthropic for dominance in higher education. The offer gives millions of students free access to OpenAI’s $20-per-month premium service just as they prepare for final exams, providing…
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Beyond generic benchmarks: How Yourbench lets enterprises evaluate AI models against actual data

Every AI model release inevitably includes charts touting how it outperformed its competitors in this benchmark test or that evaluation matrix. Model repository Hugging Face launched Yourbench, an open-source tool where developers and enterprises can create their own benchmarks to test model performance against their internal data. However, these benchmarks often test for general capabilities. For…
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I asked an AI swarm to fill out a March Madness bracket — here’s what happened

Imagine if a large team of 200 people could hold a thoughtful real-time conversation in which they efficiently brainstorm ideas, share knowledge, debate alternatives and quickly converge on AI-optimized solutions. Is this possible — and if so, would it amplify their collective intelligence? There is a new generative AI technology, conversational swarm intelligence (or simply hyperchat), that…
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OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift

OpenAI announced plans to release its first “open-weight” language model since 2019, marking a dramatic strategic shift for the company that built its business on proprietary AI systems. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, revealed the news in a post on X on Monday. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” Altman wrote.
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