On the ninth day of its holiday-themed stretch of product announcements known as “12 Days of OpenAI,” OpenAI is rolling out its most advanced model, o1, to third-party developers through its application programming interface (API).
This marks a major step forward for devs looking to build new advanced AI applications or integrate the most advanced OpenAI tech into their existing apps and…
UAE’s Falcon 3 challenges open-source leaders amid surging demand for small AI models
December 18, 2024
The UAE government-backed Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has announced the launch of Falcon 3, a family of open-source small language models (SLMs) designed to run efficiently on lightweight, single GPU-based infrastructures.
Falcon 3 features four model sizes — 1B…
In today’s fast-paced digital world, attention spans are rapidly declining. The average person now struggles to focus on a single task for more than a few minutes, making it increasingly challenging for content creators and businesses to capture and retain audience…
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Canvas to all users
December 11, 2024
OpenAI is extending access to its side-by-side digital editing space, Canvas, to all ChatGPT users and added new features, the company announced today in a livestream, the fourth of its “12 Days of OpenAI”-holiday themed announcements.
Canvas, which was announced in October, was previously only available to paying ChatGPT Plus, Teams, Edu and Enterprise subscribers.
Available on desktop web…
OpenAI has ushered in a new reasoning paradigm in large language models (LLMs) with its o1 model, which recently got a major upgrade. However, while OpenAI has a strong lead in reasoning models, it might lose some ground to open source rivals that are quickly…
Singapore startup Sapient enters global enterprise AI race with new model architectures
December 11, 2024
In a Nutshell
Sapient Intelligence, Singapore’s innovative AI startup, has secured $22 million in seed funding to develop groundbreaking models challenging GPT’s limitations. By blending neuroscience and mathematics, Sapient creates flexible architectures excelling in…
OpenAI appears poised to launch ChatGPT Pro subscription plans at $200 USD per month
December 6, 2024
OpenAI appears to be launching a new subscription tier offering for its signature chatbot product, ChatGPT.
Screenshots posted on X by third-party AI engineer Tibor Blaho show the new tier, ChatGPT Pro, priced at $200 U.S. dollars per month, 10x the amount currently charged for the ChatGPT Plus individual offering.
It is also the highest sum compared to ChatGPT Team ($30), Enterprise (varies but…
OpenAI has officially launched its o1 model, transitioning out of preview to become a core feature of the ChatGPT platform. And now, it can also analyze images — a hugely helpful feature upgrade as it enables users to upload photos and have the AI chatbot respond to them…
Calling all gen AI disruptors of the enterprise! Apply now to present at Transform 2025
December 6, 2024
The Innovation Showcase is back at Transform: The Orchestration of Enterprise Agentic AI at Scale, in June 2025 in San Francisco. We’re on the hunt for the 10 generative AI products most likely to disrupt the enterprise. If you think your technology fits this bill, we’d…
Nous Research is training an AI model using machines distributed across the internet
December 5, 2024
The team of AI researchers known as Nous Research is currently doing something unique in the fast-moving space of generative AI (at least to my knowledge): Nous is in the midst of pre-training a new 15-billion parameter large language model (LLM) using machines distributed around the internet and the world, avoiding the need to concentrate model development as it traditionally has been in…
