January 2025 shook the AI landscape. The seemingly unstoppable OpenAI and the powerful American tech giants were shocked by what we can certainly call an underdog in the area of large language models (LLMs). DeepSeek, a Chinese firm not on anyone’s radar, suddenly challenged OpenAI. It is not that DeepSeek-R1 was better than the top models from American giants; it was slightly behind in terms of…
‘Vibe coding’ is a term of the moment, as it refers to a more accepted use of AI and natural language prompts for basic code completion.
OpenAI is reportedly looking to get in on the movement — and own more of the full-stack coding experience — as it eyes a $3…
Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable - and important - AI interview of the year
April 16, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in Vancouver last week.
“I have never seen growth in any company…
$40B into the furnace: As OpenAI adds a million users an hour, the race for enterprise AI dominance hits a new gear
April 1, 2025
In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion — making it the largest private equity investment on record. The landmark investment underscores the escalating significance of AI, and also signals a shift in the enterprise technology landscape. With…
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.
OpenAI has finally added a long-requested feature for ChatGPT users: the ability to reference internal knowledge sources.
ChatGPT Team users, one of the company’s paid tiers, can connect internal knowledge databases directly to the platform during this beta period…
OpenAI is rolling out a new suite of APIs and tools designed to help developers and enterprises build AI-powered agents more efficiently. These are delivered atop some of the very same technology powering its own first-party AI agents Deep Research (which scours the internet independently to develop richly researched, well organized and cited reports) and Operator (its tool for controlling a web…
OpenAI drops Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude
February 26, 2025
OpenAI announced today that it is rolling out its powerful Deep Research capability to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, Education and Enterprise users, significantly expanding access to what many experts consider the company’s most transformative AI agent since the original…
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils Thinking Machines: A startup focused on multimodality, human-AI collaboration
February 19, 2025
Ever since Mira Murati departed OpenAI last fall, many have wondered about the former CTO’s next move. Well, now we know (or, at least have a rough idea). Murati took to X today to announce her new venture Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research and product company with a…
OpenAI strikes content deal with Condé Nast, raising questions about future of publishing
August 26, 2024
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has reached an agreement with Condé Nast, the publisher behind Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired, in a move that could reshape the media landscape.
The multi-year partnership grants OpenAI access to Condé Nast’s extensive content archive while providing the publisher with advanced technology tools.
We’re partnering with Condé Nast to deepen the…
