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Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models

“Stack Overflow is the world’s largest developer community,” Chandrasekar said in a press release this morning. “Through [our] industry-leading partnership with OpenAI, we strive to redefine the developer experience, fostering efficiency and collaboration through the power of community, best-in-class data, and AI experiences. Our goal with OverflowAPI, and our work to advance the era of socially responsible AI, is to set new standards with vetted, trusted, and accurate data that will be the foundation on which technology solutions are built and delivered to our user.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/stack-overflow-signs-deal-with-openai-to-supply-data-to-its-models/

OpenAI’s app store for GPTs will launch next week

OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g. GPT-4), sometime in the coming week. GPTs don’t require coding experience and can be as simple or complex as a developer wishes. For example, a GPT can be trained on a cookbook collection so that it can answer questions about ingredients for a specific recipe. Or a GPT could ingest a company’s proprietary codebases so that developers can check their style or generate code in line with best practices.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/04/openais-app-store-for-gpts-will-launch-next-week/

New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for ‘billions’

The lawsuit claims "millions" of articles published by the New York Times were used without its permission to make ChatGPT smarter, and claims the tool is now competing with the newspaper as a trustworthy information source. It alleges that when asked about current events, ChatGPT will sometimes generate "verbatim excerpts" from New York Times articles, which cannot be accessed without paying for a subscription.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67826601

Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI

Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days. Former president Greg Brockman, who quit in protest of Altman’s firing, will return as well.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai

Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft

OpenAI employees signing the letter accuse the company’s board of jeopardizing their work and having “undermined our mission and company.” They also reject the idea that OpenAI was pushing ahead too quickly without concern for safety. “Our work on AI safety and governance shapes global norms,” they write.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968988/openai-employees-resignation-letter-microsoft-sam-altman

GPT-4 Offers Human-Level Performance, Hallucinations, and Better Bing Results

When ChatGPT first appeared in November last year, it was like a light switch being turned on and we all gained access to a new level of artificial intelligence online. We're all still getting used to that, but OpenAI hasn't stood still. ChatGPT uses GPT-3.5, and OpenAI spent the last six months(Opens in a new window) using the lessons it learned from that alongside its adversarial testing program to create GPT-4, which blows GPT-3.5 out of the water.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/gpt-4-offers-human-level-performance-hallucinations-and-better-bing-results

ChatGPT and generative AI are booming, but the costs can be extraordinary

For a product as popular as ChatGPT — which investment firm UBS estimates to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January — Curran believes that it could have cost OpenAI $40 million to process the millions of prompts people fed into the software that month.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-are-booming-but-at-a-very-expensive-price.html