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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAIs text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora.OpenAI also faced its share of internal drama, including the notable exits of high-level execs like co-founder and longtime chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati. OpenAI has also been hit with lawsuits from Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers alleging copyright infringement, as well as an injunction from Elon Musk to halt OpenAIs transition to a for-profit.In 2025, OpenAI is battling the perception that its ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese rivals like DeepSeek. The company has been trying to shore up its relationship with Washington as it simultaneously pursues an ambitious data center project, and as it reportedly lays the groundwork for one of the largest funding rounds in history.Below, youll find a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which weve been updating throughout the year. If you have any other questions, check out our ChatGPT FAQ here.Timeline of the most recent ChatGPT updatesApril 2025 OpenAI offers ChatGPT Plus for free to US, Canadian college studentsOpenAI is offering its $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus subscription tier for free to all college students in the U.S. and Canada through the end of May. The offer will let millions of students use OpenAIs premium service, which offers access to the companys GPT-4o model, image generation, voice interaction, and research tools that are not available in the free version.ChatGPT users have generated over 700M imagesso farMore than 130 million users have created over 700 million images since ChatGPT got the upgraded image generator on March 25, according to COO of OpenAI Brad Lightcap. The image generator was made available to all ChatGPT users on March 31, and went viral for being able to create Ghibli-style photos.OpenAIs o3 model could cost more to run than initial estimateThe Arc Prize Foundation, which develops the AI benchmark tool ARC-AGI, has updated the estimated computing costs for OpenAIs o3 reasoning model managed by ARC-AGI. The organization originally estimated that the best-performing configuration of o3 it tested, o3 high, would cost approximately $3,000 to address a single problem. The Foundation now thinks the cost could be much higher, possibly around $30,000 per task.OpenAI CEO says capacity issues will cause product delaysIn a series of posts on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the companys new image-generation tools popularity may cause product releases to be delayed. We are getting things under control, but you should expect new releases from OpenAI to be delayed, stuff to break, and for service to sometimes be slow as we deal with capacity challenges, he wrote. March 2025OpenAI plans to release a new open AI language modelOpeanAI intends to release its first open language model since GPT-2 in the coming months. The company plans to host developer events to gather feedback and eventually showcase prototypes of the model. The first developer event is to be held in San Francisco, with sessions to follow in Europe and Asia.OpenAI removes ChatGPTs restrictions on image generationOpenAI made a notable change to its content moderation policies after the success of its new image generator in ChatGPT, which went viral for being able to create Studio Ghibli-style images. The company has updated its policies to allow ChatGPT to generate images of public figures, hateful symbols, and racial features when requested. OpenAI had previously declined such prompts due to the potential controversy or harm they may cause. However, the company has now evolved its approach, as stated in a blog post published by Joanne Jang, the lead for OpenAIs model behavior.OpenAI adopts Anthropics standard for linking AI models with dataOpenAI wants to incorporate Anthropics Model Context Protocol (MCP) into all of its products, including the ChatGPT desktop app. MCP, an open-source standard, helps AI models generate more accurate and suitable responses to specific queries, and lets developers create bidirectional links between data sources and AI applications like chatbots. The protocol is currently available in the Agents SDK, and support for the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API will be coming soon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said. OpenAIs viral Studio Ghibli-style images could raise AI copyright concernsThe latest update of the image generator on OpenAIs ChatGPT has triggered a flood of AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. The burgeoning mass of Ghibli-esque images have sparked concerns about whether OpenAI has violated copyright laws, especially since the company is already facing legal action for using source material without authorization. OpenAI expects revenue to triple to $12.7 billion this yearOpenAI expects its revenue to triple to $12.7 billion in 2025, fueled by the performance of its paid AI software, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source. While the startup doesnt expect to reach positive cash flow until 2029, it expects revenue to increase significantly in 2026 to surpass $29.4 billion, the report said. ChatGPT has upgraded its image-generation featureOpenAI on Tuesday rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPTs image-generation capabilities: ChatGPT can now use the GPT-4o model to generate and edit images and photos directly. The feature went live earlier this week in ChatGPT and Sora, OpenAIs AI video-generation tool, for subscribers of the companys Pro plan, priced at $200 a month, and will be available soon to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and developers using the companys API service. The companys CEO Sam Altman said on Wednesday, however, that the release of the image generation feature to free users would be delayed due to higher demand than the company expected.OpenAI announces leadership updatesBrad Lightcap, OpenAIs chief operating officer, will lead the companys global expansion and manage corporate partnerships as CEO Sam Altman shifts his focus to research and products, according to a blog post from OpenAI. Lightcap, who previously worked with Altman at Y Combinator, joined the Microsoft-backed startup in 2018. OpenAI also said Mark Chen would step into the expanded role of chief research officer, and Julia Villagra will take on the role of chief people officer.OpenAIs AI voice assistant now has advanced featureOpenAI has updated its AI voice assistant with improved chatting capabilities, according to a video posted on Monday (March 24) to the companys official media channels. The update enables real-time conversations, and the AI assistant is said to be more personable and interrupts users less often. Users on ChatGPTs free tier can now access the new version of Advanced Voice Mode, while paying users will receive answers that are more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative, a spokesperson from OpenAI told TechCrunch.OpenAI and Meta have separately engaged in discussions with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries regarding potential collaborations to enhance their AI services in the country, per a report by The Information. One key topic being discussed is Reliance Jio distributing OpenAIs ChatGPT. Reliance has proposed selling OpenAIs models to businesses in India through an application programming interface (API) so they can incorporate AI into their operations. Meta also plans to bolster its presence in India by constructing a large 3GW data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat. OpenAI, Meta, and Reliance have not yet officially announced these plans.OpenAI faces privacy complaint in Europe for chatbots defamatory hallucinationsNoyb, a privacy rights advocacy group, is supporting an individual in Norway who was shocked to discover that ChatGPT was providing false information about him, stating that he had been found guilty of killing two of his children and trying to harm the third. The GDPR is clear. Personal data has to be accurate, said Joakim Sderberg, data protection lawyer atNoyb, in a statement. If its not, users have the right to have it changed to reflect the truth. Showing ChatGPT users a tiny disclaimer that the chatbot can make mistakes clearly isnt enough. You cant just spread false information and in the end add a small disclaimer saying that everything you said may just not be true.OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI modelsOpenAI has added new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its APIs: a text-to-speech model, gpt-4o-mini-tts, that delivers more nuanced and realistic sounding speech, as well as two speech-to-text models called gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe. The company claims they are improved versions of what was already there and that they hallucinate less.OpenAI has launched o1-pro, a more powerful version of its o1OpenAI has introduced o1-pro in its developer API. OpenAI says its o1-pro uses more computing than its o1 reasoning AI model to deliver consistently better responses. Its only accessible to select developers who have spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services. OpenAI charges $150 for every million tokens (about 750,000 words) input into the model and $600 for every million tokens the model produces. It costs twice as much as OpenAIs GPT-4.5 for input and 10 times the price of regular o1.Noam Brown, who heads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, thinks that certain types of AI models for reasoning could have been developed 20 years ago if researchers had understood the correct approach and algorithms.OpenAI says it has trained an AI thats really good at creative writingOpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, in apost on X, that the company has trained a new model thats really good at creative writing. He posted a lengthy sample from the model given the prompt Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief. OpenAI has not extensively explored the use of AI for writing fiction. The company has mostly concentrated on challenges in rigid, predictable areas such as math and programming.might not be that great at creative writing at all. OpenAI rolled out new tools designed to help developers and businesses build AI agents automated systems that can independently accomplish tasks using the companys own AI models and frameworks. The tools are part of OpenAIs new Responses API, which enables enterprises to develop customized AI agents that can perform web searches, scan through company files, and navigate websites, similar to OpenAIs Operator product. The Responses API effectively replaces OpenAIs Assistants API, which the company plans to discontinue in the first half of 2026.OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI agentsOpenAI intends to release several agent products tailored for different applications, including sorting and ranking sales leads and software engineering, according to a report from The Information. One, a high-income knowledge worker agent, will reportedly be priced at $2,000 a month. Another, a software developer agent, is said to cost $10,000 a month. The most expensive rumored agents, which are said to be aimed at supporting PhD-level research, are expected to cost $20,000 per month. The jaw-dropping figure is indicative of how much cash OpenAI needs right now: The company lost roughly $5 billion last year after paying for costs related to running its services and other expenses. Its unclear when these agentic tools might launch or which customers will be eligible to buy them.ChatGPT can directly edit your codeThe latest version of the macOS ChatGPT app allows users to edit code directly in supported developer tools, including Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers can use the feature now, and the company plans to roll it out to more users like Enterprise, Edu, and free users.ChatGPTs weekly active users doubled in less than 6 months, thanks to new releasesAccording to a new report from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAIs AI chatbot, ChatGPT, experienced solid growth in the second half of 2024. It took ChatGPT nine months to increase its weekly active users from 100 million in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, but it only took less than six months to double that number once more, according to the report. ChatGPTs weekly active users increased to 300 million by December 2024 and 400 million by February 2025. ChatGPT has experienced significant growth recently due to the launch of new models and features, such as GPT-4o, with multimodal capabilities. ChatGPT usage spiked from April to May 2024, shortly after that models launch.February 2025 OpenAI cancels its o3 AI model in favor of a unified next-gen releaseOpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3 in favor of what CEO Sam Altman is calling a simplified product offering. In a post on X, Altman said that, in the coming months, OpenAI will release a model called GPT-5 that integrates a lot of [OpenAIs] technology, including o3, in ChatGPT and its API. As a result of that roadmap decision, OpenAI no longer plans to release o3 as a standalone model.ChatGPT may not be as power-hungry as once assumedA commonly cited stat is that ChatGPT requires around 3 watt-hours of power to answer a single question. Using OpenAIs latest default model for ChatGPT, GPT-4o, as a reference, nonprofit AI research institute Epoch AI found the average ChatGPT query consumes around 0.3 watt-hours. However, the analysis doesnt consider the additional energy costs incurred by ChatGPT with features like image generation or input processing.OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini models thought processIn response to pressure from rivals like DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its o3-mini model communicates its step-by-step thought process. ChatGPT users will see an updated chain of thought that shows more of the models reasoning steps and how it arrived at answers to questions.You can now use ChatGPT web search without logging inOpenAI is now allowing anyone to use ChatGPT web search without having to log in. While OpenAI had previously allowed users to ask ChatGPT questions without signing in, responses were restricted to the chatbots last training update. This only applies through ChatGPT.com, however. To use ChatGPT in any form through the native mobile app, you will still need to be logged in.OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for deep researchOpenAI announced a new AI agent called deep research thats designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT. OpenAI says the agent is intended for instances where you dont just want a quick answer or summary, but instead need to assiduously consider information from multiple websites and other sources.February 2025OpenAI used a subreddit to test AI persuasionOpenAI used the subreddit r/ChangeMyView to measure the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. OpenAI says it collects user posts from the subreddit and asks its AI models to write replies, in a closed environment, that would change the Reddit users mind on a subject. The company then shows the responses to testers, who assess how persuasive the argument is, and finally OpenAI compares the AI models responses to human replies for that same post.OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning modelOpenAI launched a new AI reasoning model, o3-mini, the newest in the companys o family of models. OpenAI first previewed the model in December alongside a more capable system called o3. OpenAI is pitching its new model as both powerful and affordable.ChatGPTs mobile users are 85% male, report saysA new report from app analytics firm Appfigures found that over half of ChatGPTs mobile users are under age 25, with users between ages 50 and 64 making up the second largest age demographic. The gender gap among ChatGPT users is even more significant. Appfigures estimates that across age groups, men make up 84.5% of all users.OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for US government agenciesOpenAI launched ChatGPT Gov designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech. ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAIs corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. OpenAI says that ChatGPT Gov enables agencies to more easily manage their own security, privacy, and compliance, and could expedite internal authorization of OpenAIs tools for the handling of non-public sensitive data.More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the techs faultsYounger Gen Zers are embracing ChatGPT, for schoolwork, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. In a follow-up to its 2023 poll on ChatGPT usage among young people, Pew asked ~1,400 U.S.-based teens ages 13 to 17 whether theyve used ChatGPT for homework or other school-related assignments. Twenty-six percent said that they had, double the number two years ago. Just over half of teens responding to the poll said they think its acceptable to use ChatGPT for researching new subjects. But considering the ways ChatGPT can fall short, the results are possibly cause for alarm.OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 daysOpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the companys AI agent tool, for up to 90 days even after a user manually deletes them. While OpenAI has a similar deleted data retention policy for ChatGPT, the retention period for ChatGPT is only 30 days, which is 60 days shorter than Operators.OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomouslyOpenAI is launching a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform certain actions. Operator promises to automate tasks such as booking travel accommodations, making restaurant reservations, and shopping online.Operator, OpenAIs agent tool, could be released sooner rather than later. Changes to ChatGPTs code base suggest that Operator will be available as an early research preview to users on the $200 Pro subscription plan. The changes arent yet publicly visible, but a user on X who goes by Choi spotted these updates in ChatGPTs client-side code. TechCrunch separately identified the same references to Operator on OpenAIs website.OpenAI tests phone number-only ChatGPT signupsOpenAI has begun testing a feature that lets new ChatGPT users sign up with only a phone number no email required. The feature is currently in beta in the U.S. and India. However, users who create an account using their number cant upgrade to one of OpenAIs paid plans without verifying their account via an email. Multi-factor authentication also isnt supported without a valid email.ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasksChatGPTs new beta feature, called tasks, allows users to set simple reminders. For example, you can ask ChatGPT to remind you when your passport expires in six months, and the AI assistant will follow up with a push notification on whatever platform you have tasks enabled. The feature will start rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users around the globe this week.New ChatGPT feature lets users assign it traits like chatty and Gen ZOpenAI is introducing a new way for users to customize their interactions with ChatGPT. Some users found they can specify a preferred name or nickname and traits theyd like the chatbot to have. OpenAI suggests traits like Chatty, Encouraging, and Gen Z. However, some users reported that the new options have disappeared, so its possible they went live prematurely.December 2024ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research revealsChatGPT Search can be fooled into generating completely misleading summaries, The Guardian has found. They found ChatGPT could be prompted to ignore negative reviews and generate entirely positive summaries by inserting hidden text into websites it created and that ChatGPT Search could also be made to spit out malicious code using this method.Microsoft and OpenAI reportedly have a finance-centric definition of AGIMicrosoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of AGI based on the startups profits, according to a new report from The Information. The two companies reportedly signed an agreement stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profit, which is far from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many would expect.OpenAI released new research outlining the companys approach to ensure AI reasoning models stay aligned with the values of their human developers. The startup used deliberative alignment to make o1 and o3 think about OpenAIs safety policy. According to OpenAIs research, the method decreased the rate at which o1 answered unsafe questions while improving its ability to answer benign ones.OpenAI announces new o3 reasoning modelsOpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the successors to its o1 reasoning model family: o3 and o3-mini. The models are not widely available yet, but safety researchers can sign up for a preview. The reveal marks the end of the 12 Days of OpenAI event, which saw announcements for real-time vision capabilities, ChatGPT Search, and even a Santa voice for ChatGPT.OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landlineIn an effort to make ChatGPT accessible to as many people as possible, OpenAI announced a 1-800 number to call the chatbot even from a landline or a flip phone. Users can call 1-800-CHATGPT, and ChatGPT will respond to your queries in an experience that is more or less identical to Advanced Voice Mode minus the multimodality.OpenAI is offering 15 minutes of free calling for U.S. users. The company notes that standard carrier fees may apply.OpenAI brings its ChatGPT Search to more usersOpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Search to free, logged in users. Search gives ChatGPT the ability to access real-time information on the web to better answer your queries, but was only available for paid users when it launched in October. Not only is Search available now for free users, but its also been integrated into Advanced Voice Mode.OpenAI blames massive ChatGPT outage on a new telemetry serviceOpenAI is blaming one of the longest outages in its history on a new telemetry service gone awry. OpenAI wrote in a postmortem that the outage wasnt caused by a security incident or recent product launch, but by a telemetry service it deployed to collect Kubernetes metrics.You can make ChatGPT sound like Santa for a limited timeOpenAI announced that ChatGPT users could access a new Santa Mode voice during December. The feature allows users to speak with ChatGPTs Advanced Voice Mode, but with a Christmas twist. The voice sounds, well, merry and bright, as OpenAI described it. Think boomy, jolly more or less like every Santa youve ever heard.OpenAI adds vision to Advanced Voice ModeOpenAI released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago. ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers can use the app to point their phones at objects and have ChatGPT respond in near-real-time. The feature can also understand whats on a devices screen through screen sharing.Theres more to come from OpenAI through December 23. Tune in to our live blog to stay updated.ChatGPT and Sora hit with a major outageChatGPT and Sora both experienced a major outage Wednesday. Though users suspected the outage was due to the rollout of ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence, OpenAI developer community lead Edwin Arbus denied it in a post on X, saying the outage was unrelated to 12 Days of OpenAI or Apple Intelligence. We made a config change that caused many servers to become unavailable.Canvas rolls out to everyoneCanvas, OpenAIs collaboration-focused interface for writing and code projects, is now rolling out to all users after being in beta for ChatGPT Plus members since October 2024. The company also announced the ability to integrate Python code within Canvas as well as bringing Canvas to custom GPTs.OpenAI pauses Sora sign-ups due to high demandOpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that due to higher than expected demand, they are pausing new sign-ups for its video generator Sora and that video generations will be slower for the time being. The company released Sora as part of its 12 Days of OpenAI event following nearly a year of teasing the product.OpenAI releases Sora for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribersOpenAI has finally released its text to video model, Sora. The model can generate videos up to 20 seconds long in 1080p based on text prompts or uploaded images, and can be remixed through additional user prompts. Sora is available starting today to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers (except in the EU).In Mondays 12 Days of OpenAI livestream, CEO Sam Altman said that ChatGPT Plus members will get 50 video generations a month, while ChatGPT Pro users will get unlimited generations in their slow queue mode and 500 normal generations per month.There are still more reveals to come from OpenAI through December 23. Tune in to our live blog to stay updated.OpenAI launches $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription and full version of o1On day one of its 12 Days of OpenAI event, the company announced a new and expensive subscription plan. ChatGPT Pro is a $200-per-month tier that provides unlimited access to all of OpenAIs models, including the full version of its o1 reasoning model.The full version of o1, which was released as a preview in September, can now reason about image uploads and has been trained to be more concise in its thinking to improve response times.Over the next few weeks, well be updating all the news from OpenAI as it happens on our live blog. Follow along with us!OpenAI announces 12 days of reveals for the holidaysOpenAI announced 12 Days of OpenAI, which will feature livestreams every weekday starting December 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Each days stream is said to include either a product launch or a demo in varying sizes.ChatGPT surpasses 300M weekly active users, Sam Altman saysAt the New York Times Dealbook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that ChatGPT has surpassed 300 million weekly active users. The milestone comes just a few months after the chatbot hit 200 million weekly active users in August 2024 and just over a year after reaching 100 million weekly active users in November 2023.November 2024Users discovered the name David Mayer crashed ChatGPTChatGPT users discovered an interesting phenomenon: the popular chatbot refused to answer questions asked about a David Mayer, and asking it to do so caused it to freeze up instantly. While the strange behavior spawned conspiracy theories, and a slew of other names being impacted, a much more ordinary reason may be at the heart of it: digital privacy requests.OpenAI is toying with the idea of getting into ads. CFO Sarah Friar told the Financial Times its weighing an ads business model, with plans to be thoughtful about when and where ads appear though she later stressed that the company has no active plans to pursue advertising. Still, the exploration may raise eyebrows given that Sam Altman recently said ads would be a last resort.Canadian news companies sue OpenAIA group of Canadian media companies, including the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. The companies behind the suit said that OpenAI infringed their copyrights and are seeking to win monetary damages and ban OpenAI from making further use of their work.GPT-4o gets an upgradeOpenAI announced that its GPT-4o model has been updated to feature more natural and engaging creative writing abilities as well as more thorough responses and insights when accessing files uploaded by users.OpenAI brings ChatGPTs Advanced Voice Mode to the webChatGPTs Advanced Voice Mode feature is expanding to the web, allowing users to talk to the chatbot through their browser. The conversational feature is rolling out to ChatGPTs paying Plus, Enterprise, Teams, or Edu subscribers.OpenAI announced the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code in a handful of developer-focused coding apps, such as VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 meaning that developers will no longer have to copy and paste their code into ChatGPT. When the feature is enabled, OpenAI will automatically send the section of code youre working on through its chatbot as context, alongside your prompt.Lilian Weng announced on X that she is departing OpenAI. Weng served as VP of research and safety since August, and before that was the head of OpenAIs safety systems team. Its the latest in a long string of AI safety researchers,policy researchers, and other executives who have exited the company in the last year.ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhereOpenAI stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go elsewhere for information about the 2024 U.S. election, and instead recommended trusted news sources like Reuters and the Associated Press.In a blog post, OpenAI said that ChatGPT sent roughly a million people to CanIVote.org when they asked questions specific to voting in the lead-up to the election and rejected around 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates over the same period.OpenAI acquires Chat.comAdding to its collection of high-profile domain names, Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. Last year, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of the top two all-time publicly reported domain sales though OpenAI declined to state how much it paid for it.The former head of Metas augmented reality glasses efforts is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware. Kalinowski is a hardware executive who began leading Metas AR glasses team in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the impressive augmented reality prototype that Meta recently showed off at its annual Connect conference.Apple users will soon be able to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus in the Settings appApple is including an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus inside its Settings app, according to an update to the iOS 18.2 beta spotted by 9to5Mac. This will give Apple users a direct route to sign up for OpenAIs premium subscription plan, which costs $20 a month.October 2024Sam Altman says a lack of compute capacity is delaying product releasesIn a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preventing the company from shipping products as often as itd like, including the vision capabilities for Advanced Voice Mode first teased in May. Altman also indicated that the next major release of DALL-E, OpenAIs image generator, has no launch timeline, and that Sora, OpenAIs video-generating tool, has also been held back.Altman also admitted to using ChatGPT sometimes to answer questions throughout the AMA.OpenAI launches its Google search challengerOpenAI launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer. Powered by a fine-tuned version of OpenAIs GPT-4o model, ChatGPT Search serves up information and photos from the web along with links to relevant sources, at which point you can ask follow-up questions to refine an ongoing search.Advanced Voice Mode comes to Mac and PCOpenAI has rolled out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPTs desktop apps for macOS and Windows. For Mac users, that means that both ChatGPTs Advanced Voice Mode can coexist with Siri on the same device, leading the way for ChatGPTs Apple Intelligence integration.OpenAI is reportedly planning to build its first AI chipReuters reports that OpenAI is working with TSMC and Broadcom to build an in-house AI chip, which could arrive as soon as 2026. It appears, at least for now, the company has abandoned plans to establish a network of factories for chip manufacturing and is instead focusing on in-house chip design.You can now search through your ChatGPT historyOpenAI announced its rolling out a feature that allows users to search through their ChatGPT chat histories on the web. The new feature will let users bring up an old chat to remember something or pick back up a chat right where it was left off.ChatGPT rolls out with Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1 updateWith the release of iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence features powered by ChatGPT are now available to users. The ChatGPT features include integrated writing tools, image cleanup, article summaries, and a typing input for the redesigned Siri experience.OpenAI says it wont release a model called Orion this yearOpenAI denied reports that it is intending to release an AI model, code-named Orion, by December of this year. An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that they dont have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year, but that leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.ChatGPT comes to WindowsOpenAI has begun previewing a dedicated Windows app for ChatGPT. The company says the app is an early version and is currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users with a full experience set to come later this year.OpenAI inks new content deal with HearstOpenAI struck a content deal with Hearst, the newspaper and magazine publisher known for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others. The partnership will allow OpenAI to surface stories from Hearst publications with citations and direct links.ChatGPT has a new Canvas interface for writing and coding projectsOpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT called Canvas. The canvas workspace allows for users to generate writing or code, then highlight sections of the work to have the model edit. Canvas is rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Teams, with a rollout to come to Enterprise and Edu tier users next week.OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157BOpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time. The startup announced it raised $6.6 billion in a funding round that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by previous investor Thrive Capital, the new cash brings OpenAIs total raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase.Dev Day brings Realtime API to AI app developersAt the first of its 2024 Dev Day events, OpenAI announced a new API tool that will let developers build nearly real-time, speech-to-speech experiences in their apps, with the choice of using six voices provided by OpenAI. These voices are distinct from those offered for ChatGPT, and developers cant use third party voices, in order to prevent copyright issues.September 2024OpenAI might raise the price of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029OpenAI is planning to raise the price of individual ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per month to $22 per month by the end of the year, according to a report from The New York Times. The report notes that a steeper increase could come over the next five years; by 2029, OpenAI expects itll charge $44 per month for ChatGPT Plus.Mira Murati exists OpenAIOpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced that she is leaving the company after more than six years. Hours after the announcement, OpenAIs chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, also left the company. CEO Sam Altman revealed the two latest resignations in a post on X, along with leadership transition plans.OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new lookAfter a delay, OpenAI is finally rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to an expanded set of ChatGPTs paying customers. AVM is also getting a revamped design the feature is now represented by a blue animated sphere instead of the animated black dots that were presented back in May. OpenAI is highlighting improvements in conversational speed, accents in foreign languages, and five new voices as part of the rollout.YouTuber finds a way to run ChatGPT on a graphing calculatorA video from YouTube creator ChromaLock showcased how to modify a TI-84 graphing calculator so that it can connect to the internet and access ChatGPT, touting it as the ultimate cheating device. As demonstrated in the video, its a pretty complicated process for the average high school student to follow but it might stoke more concerns from teachers about the ongoing concerns about ChatGPT and cheating in schools.OpenAI announces OpenAI o1, a new model that can fact-check itselfOpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also known as Strawberry. The collection of models are available in ChatGPT and via OpenAIs API: o1-preview and o1 mini. The company claims that o1 can more effectively reason through math and science and fact-check itself by spending more time considering all parts of a command or question.Unlike ChatGPT, o1 cant browse the web or analyze files yet, is rate-limited and expensive compared to other models. OpenAI says it plans to bring o1-mini access to all free users of ChatGPT, but hasnt set a release date.A hacker was able to trick ChatGPT into giving instructions on how to make bombsAn artist and hacker found a way to jailbreak ChatGPT to produce instructions for making powerful explosives, a request that the chatbot normally refuses. An explosives expert who reviewed the chatbots output told TechCrunch that the instructions could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to be released.OpenAI reaches 1 million paid users of its corporate offeringsOpenAI announced it has surpassed 1 million paid users for its versions of ChatGPT intended for businesses, including ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise and its educational offering, ChatGPT Edu. The company said that nearly half of OpenAIs corporate users are based in the US.Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT assistant to the USVolkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to vehicles in the United States. Its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant is an AI chatbot based on Cerences Chat Pro product and a LLM from OpenAI and will begin rolling out on September 6 with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI models.August 2024OpenAI inks content deal with Cond NastAs part of the new deal, OpenAI will surface stories from Cond Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Apptit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. Cond Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the multi-year deal will involve payment from OpenAI in some form and a Cond Nast spokesperson told TechCrunch that OpenAI will have permission to train on Cond Nast content.Our first impressions of ChatGPTs Advanced Voice ModeTechCrunchs Maxwell Zeff has been playing around with OpenAIs Advanced Voice Mode, in what he describes as the most convincing taste Ive had of an AI-powered future yet. Compared to Siri or Alexa, Advanced Voice Mode stands out with faster response times, unique answers and the ability to answer complex questions. But the feature falls short as an effective replacement for virtual assistants.OpenAI shuts down election influence operation that used ChatGPTOpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election. OpenAI identified five website fronts presenting as both progressive and conservative news outlets that used ChatGPT to draft several long-form articles, though it doesnt seem that it reached much of an audience.OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some weird stuff sometimesOpenAI has found that GPT-4o, which powers the recently launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, can behave in strange ways. In a new red teaming report, OpenAI reveals some of GPT-4os weirder quirks, like mimicking the voice of the person speaking to it or randomly shouting in the middle of a conversation.ChatGPTs mobile app reports its biggest month yetAfter a big jump following the release of OpenAIs new GPT-4o omni model, the mobile version of ChatGPT has now seen its biggest month of revenue yet. The app pulled in $28 million in net revenue from the App Store and Google Play in July, according to data provided by app intelligence firm Appfigures.OpenAI could potentially catch students who cheat with ChatGPTOpenAI has built a watermarking tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by using ChatGPT but The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is debating whether to actually release it. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is researching tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT, but said its taking a deliberate approach to releasing it.July 2024ChatGPTs advanced Voice Mode starts rolling out to some usersOpenAI is giving users their first access to GPT-4os updated realistic audio responses. The alpha version is now available to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users, and the company says the feature will gradually roll out to all Plus users in the fall of 2024. The release follows controversy surrounding the voices similarity to Scarlett Johansson, leading OpenAI to delay its release.OpenAI announces new search prototype, SearchGPTOpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a new AI search experience to compete with Google. SearchGPT aims to elevate search queries with timely answers from across the internet, as well as the ability to ask follow-up questions. The temporary prototype is currently only available to a small group of users and its publisher partners, like The Atlantic, for testing and feedback.OpenAI could lose $5 billion this year, report claimsA new report from The Information, based on undisclosed financial information, claims OpenAI could lose up to $5 billion due to how costly the business is to operate. The report also says the company could spend as much as $7 billion in 2024 to train and operate ChatGPT.OpenAI unveils GPT-4o miniOpenAI released its latest small AI model, GPT-4o mini. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAIs current AI models, outperforms industry leading small AI models on reasoning tasks involving text and vision. GPT-4o mini will replace GPT-3.5 Turbo as the smallest model OpenAI offers.OpenAI partners with Los Alamos National Laboratory for bioscience researchOpenAI announced a partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to study how AI can be employed by scientists in order to advance research in healthcare and bioscience. This follows other health-related research collaborations at OpenAI, including Moderna and Color Health.June 2024OpenAI makes CriticGPT to find mistakes in GPT-4OpenAI announced it has trained a model off of GPT-4, dubbed CriticGPT, which aims to find errors in ChatGPTs code output so they can make improvements and better help so-called human AI trainers rate the quality and accuracy of ChatGPT responses.OpenAI inks content deal with TIMEOpenAI and TIME announced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the magazines content, both modern and archival, to ChatGPT. As part of the deal, TIME will also gain access to OpenAIs technology in order to develop new audience-based products.OpenAI delays ChatGPTs new Voice ModeOpenAI planned to start rolling out its advanced Voice Mode feature to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but it says lingering issues forced it to postpone the launch to July. OpenAI says Advanced Voice Mode might not launch for all ChatGPT Plus customers until the fall, depending on whether it meets certain internal safety and reliability checks.ChatGPT releases app for MacChatGPT for macOS is now available for all users. With the app, users can quickly call up ChatGPT by using the keyboard combination of Option + Space. The app allows users to upload files and other photos, as well as speak to ChatGPT from their desktop and search through their past conversations.Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including SiriApple announced at WWDC 2024 that it is bringing ChatGPT to Siri and other first-party apps and capabilities across its operating systems. The ChatGPT integrations, powered by GPT-4o, will arrive on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia later this year, and will be free without the need to create a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Features exclusive to paying ChatGPT users will also be available through Apple devices.Scarlett Johansson has been invited to testify about the controversy surrounding OpenAIs Sky voice at a hearing for the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. In a letter, Rep. Nancy Mace said Johanssons testimony could provide a platform for concerns around deepfakes.ChatGPT experiences two outages in a single dayChatGPT was down twice in one day: one multi-hour outage in the early hours of the morning Tuesday and another outage later in the day that is still ongoing. Anthropics Claude and Perplexity also experienced some issues.May 2024The Atlantic and Vox Media have announced licensing and product partnerships with OpenAI. Both agreements allow OpenAI to use the publishers current content to generate responses in ChatGPT, which will feature citations to relevant articles. Vox Media says it will use OpenAIs technology to build audience-facing and internal applications, while The Atlantic will build a new experimental product called Atlantic Labs.OpenAI signs 100K PwC workers to ChatGPTs enterprise tierOpenAI announced a new deal with management consulting giant PwC. The company will become OpenAIs biggest customer to date, covering 100,000 users, and will become OpenAIs first partner for selling its enterprise offerings to other businesses.OpenAI says it is training its GPT-4 successorOpenAI announced in a blog post that it has recently begun training its next flagship model to succeed GPT-4. The news came in an announcement of its new safety and security committee, which is responsible for informing safety and security decisions across OpenAIs products.On the The TED AI Show podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed that the board did not know about ChatGPT until its launch in November 2022. Toner also said that Sam Altman gave the board inaccurate information about the safety processes the company had in place and that he didnt disclose his involvement in the OpenAI Startup Fund.ChatGPTs mobile app revenue saw biggest spike yet following GPT-4o launchThe launch of GPT-4o has driven the companys biggest-ever spike in revenue on mobile, despite the model being freely available on the web. Mobile users are being pushed to upgrade to its $19.99 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Plus, if they want to experiment with OpenAIs most recent launch.OpenAI to remove ChatGPTs Scarlett Johansson-like voiceAfter demoing its new GPT-4o model last week, OpenAI announced it is pausing one of its voices, Sky, after users found that it sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson in Her.OpenAI explained in a blog post that Skys voice is not an imitation of the actress and that AI voices should not intentionally mimic the voice of a celebrity. The blog post went on to explain how the company chose its voices: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.ChatGPT lets you add files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDriveOpenAI announced new updates for easier data analysis within ChatGPT. Users can now upload files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, interact with tables and charts, and export customized charts for presentations. The company says these improvements will be added to GPT-4o in the coming weeks.OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit dataOpenAI announced a partnership with Reddit that will give the company access to real-time, structured and unique content from the social network. Content from Reddit will be incorporated into ChatGPT, and the companies will work together to bring new AI-powered features to Reddit users and moderators.OpenAI debuts GPT-4o omni model now powering ChatGPTOpenAIs spring update event saw the reveal of its new omni model, GPT-4o, which has a black hole-like interface, as well as voice and vision capabilities that feel eerily like something out of Her. GPT-4o is set to roll out iteratively across its developer and consumer-facing products over the next few weeks.The company announced its building a tool, Media Manager, that will allow creators to better control how their content is being used to train generative AI models and give them an option to opt out. The goal is to have the new tool in place and ready to use by 2025.OpenAI explores allowing AI pornIn a new peek behind the curtain of its AIs secret instructions, OpenAI also released a new NSFW policy. Though its intended to start a conversation about how it might allow explicit images and text in its AI products, it raises questions about whether OpenAI or any generative AI vendor can be trusted to handle sensitive content ethically.OpenAI and Stack Overflow announce partnershipIn a new partnership, OpenAI will get access to developer platform Stack Overflows API and will get feedback from developers to improve the performance of their AI models. In return, OpenAI will include attributions to Stack Overflow in ChatGPT. However, the deal was not favorable to some Stack Overflow users leading to some sabotaging their answer in protest.April 2024U.S. newspapers file copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and MicrosoftAlden Global Capital-owned newspapers, including the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Denver Post, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the companies stole millions of copyrighted articles without permission and without payment to bolster ChatGPT and Copilot.OpenAI inks content licensing deal with Financial TimesOpenAI has partnered with another news publisher in Europe, Londons Financial Times, that the company will be paying for content access. Through the partnership, ChatGPT users will be able to see select attributed summaries, quotes and rich links to FT journalism in response to relevant queries, the FT wrote in a press release.OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for JapaneseOpenAI is opening a new office in Tokyo and has plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The move underscores how OpenAI will likely need to localize its technology to different languages as it expands.Sam Altman pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to Fortune 500 companiesAccording to Reuters, OpenAIs Sam Altman hosted hundreds of executives from Fortune 500 companies across several cities in April, pitching versions of its AI services intended for corporate use.OpenAI releases more direct, less verbose version of GPT-4 TurboPremium ChatGPT users customers paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise can now use an updated and enhanced version of GPT-4 Turbo. The new model brings with it improvements in writing, math, logical reasoning and coding, OpenAI claims, as well as a more up-to-date knowledge base.ChatGPT no longer requires an account but theres a catchYou can now use ChatGPT without signing up for an account, but it wont be quite the same experience. You wont be able to save or share chats, use custom instructions, or other features associated with a persistent account. This version of ChatGPT will have slightly more restrictive content policies, according to OpenAI. When TechCrunch asked for more details, however, the response was unclear:The signed out experience will benefit from the existing safety mitigations that are already built into the model, such as refusing to generate harmful content. In addition to these existing mitigations, we are also implementing additional safeguards specifically designed to address other forms of content that may be inappropriate for a signed out experience, a spokesperson said.March 2024OpenAIs chatbot store is filling up with spamTechCrunch found that the OpenAIs GPT Store is flooded with bizarre, potentially copyright-infringing GPTs. A cursory search pulls up GPTs that claim to generate art in the style of Disney and Marvel properties, but serve as little more than funnels to third-party paid services and advertise themselves as being able to bypass AI content detection tools.The New York Times responds to OpenAIs claims that it hacked ChatGPT for its copyright lawsuitIn a court filing opposing OpenAIs motion to dismiss The New York Times lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the newspaper asserted that OpenAIs attention-grabbing claim that The Times hacked its products is as irrelevant as it is false. The New York Times also claimed that some users of ChatGPT used the tool to bypass its paywalls.OpenAI VP doesnt say whether artists should be paid for training dataAt a SXSW 2024 panel, Peter Deng, OpenAIs VP of consumer product dodged a question on whether artists whose work was used to train generative AI models should be compensated. While OpenAI lets artists opt out of and remove their work from the datasets that the company uses to train its image-generating models, some artists have described the tool as onerous.A new report estimates that ChatGPT uses more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity per dayChatGPTs environmental impact appears to be massive. According to a report from The New Yorker, ChatGPT uses an estimated 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average U.S. household to respond to roughly 200 million requests each day.ChatGPT can now read its answers aloudOpenAI released a new Read Aloud feature for the web version of ChatGPT as well as the iOS and Android apps. The feature allows ChatGPT to read its responses to queries in one of five voice options and can speak 37 languages, according to the company. Read aloud is available on both GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models.January 2025OpenAI partners with Dublin City Council to use GPT-4 for tourismAs part of a new partnership with OpenAI, the Dublin City Council will use GPT-4 to craft personalized itineraries for travelers, including recommendations of unique and cultural destinations, in an effort to support tourism across Europe.A law firm used ChatGPT to justify a six-figure bill for legal servicesNew York-based law firm Cuddy Law was criticized by a judge for using ChatGPT to calculate their hourly billing rate. The firm submitted a $113,500 bill to the court, which was then halved by District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who called the figure well above reasonable demands.ChatGPT experienced a bizarre bug for several hoursChatGPT users found that ChatGPT was giving nonsensical answers for several hours, prompting OpenAI to investigate the issue. Incidents varied from repetitive phrases to confusing and incorrect answers to queries. The issue was resolved by OpenAI the following morning.Match Group announced deal with OpenAI with a press release co-written by ChatGPTThe dating app giant home to Tinder, Match and OkCupid announced an enterprise agreement with OpenAI in an enthusiastic press release written with the help of ChatGPT. The AI tech will be used to help employees with work-related tasks and come as part of Matchs $20 million-plus bet on AI in 2024.ChatGPT will now remember and forget things you tell it toAs part of a test, OpenAI began rolling out new memory controls for a small portion of ChatGPT free and paid users, with a broader rollout to follow. The controls let you tell ChatGPT explicitly to remember something, see what it remembers or turn off its memory altogether. Note that deleting a chat from chat history wont erase ChatGPTs or a custom GPTs memories you must delete the memory itself.OpenAI begins rolling out Temporary Chat featureInitially limited to a small subset of free and subscription users, Temporary Chat lets you have a dialogue with a blank slate. With Temporary Chat, ChatGPT wont be aware of previous conversations or access memories but will follow custom instructions if theyre enabled.But, OpenAI says it may keep a copy of Temporary Chat conversations for up to 30 days for safety reasons.January 2024ChatGPT users can now invoke GPTs directly in chatsPaid users of ChatGPT can now bring GPTs into a conversation by typing @ and selecting a GPT from the list. The chosen GPT will have an understanding of the full conversation, and different GPTs can be tagged in for different use cases and needs.ChatGPT is reportedly leaking usernames and passwords from users private conversationsScreenshots provided to Ars Technica found that ChatGPT is potentially leaking unpublished research papers, login credentials and private information from its users. An OpenAI representative told Ars Technica that the company was investigating the report.ChatGPT is violating Europes privacy laws, Italian DPA tells OpenAIOpenAI has been told its suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of ChatGPT by Italys data protection authority. Details of the draft findings havent been disclosed, but in a response, OpenAI said: We want our AI to learn about the world, not about private individuals.OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI guidelinesIn an effort to win the trust of parents and policymakers, OpenAI announced its partnering with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI guidelines and education materials for parents, educators and young adults. The organization works to identify and minimize tech harms to young people and previously flagged ChatGPT as lacking in transparency and privacy. OpenAI responds to Congressional Black Caucus about lack of diversity on its boardAfter a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the lack of diversity in OpenAIs board, the company responded. The response, signed by CEO Sam Altman and Chairman of the Board Bret Taylor, said building a complete and diverse board was one of the companys top priorities and that it was working with an executive search firm to assist it in finding talent.OpenAI drops prices and fixes lazy GPT-4 that refused to workIn a blog post, OpenAI announced price drops for GPT-3.5s API, with input prices dropping to 50% and output by 25%, to $0.0005 per thousand tokens in, and $0.0015 per thousand tokens out. GPT-4 Turbo also got a new preview model for API use, which includes an interesting fix that aims to reduce laziness that users have experienced.OpenAI bans developer of a bot impersonating a presidential candidateOpenAI has suspended AI startup Delphi, which developed a bot impersonating Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) to help bolster his presidential campaign. The ban comes just weeks after OpenAI published a plan to combat election misinformation, which listed chatbots impersonating candidates as against its policy.OpenAI announces partnership with Arizona State UniversityBeginning in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPTs Enterprise tier, which the university plans to use to build a personalized AI tutor, develop AI avatars, bolster their prompt engineering course and more. It marks OpenAIs first partnership with a higher education institution.Winner of a literary prize reveals around 5% her novel was written by ChatGPTAfter receiving the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for her novel The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, author Rie Kudan admitted that around 5% of the book quoted ChatGPT-generated sentences verbatim. Interestingly enough, the novel revolves around a futuristic world with a pervasive presence of AI.Sam Altman teases video capabilities for ChatGPT and the release of GPT-5In a conversation with Bill Gates on the Unconfuse Me podcast, Sam Altman confirmed an upcoming release of GPT-5 that will be fully multimodal with speech, image, code, and video support. Altman said users can expect to see GPT-5 drop sometime in 2024.OpenAI announces team to build crowdsourced governance ideas into its modelsOpenAI is forming a Collective Alignment team of researchers and engineers to create a system for collecting and encoding public input on its models behaviors into OpenAI products and services. This comes as a part of OpenAIs public program to award grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for determining the rules AI systems follow.OpenAI unveils plan to combat election misinformationIn a blog post, OpenAI announced users will not be allowed to build applications for political campaigning and lobbying until the company works out how effective their tools are for personalized persuasion.Users will also be banned from creating chatbots that impersonate candidates or government institutions, and from using OpenAI tools to misrepresent the voting process or otherwise discourage voting.The company is also testing out a tool that detects DALL-E generated images and will incorporate access to real-time news, with attribution, in ChatGPT.OpenAI changes policy to allow military applicationsIn an unannounced update to its usage policy, OpenAI removed language previously prohibiting the use of its products for the purposes of military and warfare. In an additional statement, OpenAI confirmed that the language was changed in order to accommodate military customers and projects that do not violate their ban on efforts to use their tools to harm people, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property.ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams debutsAptly called ChatGPT Team, the new plan provides a dedicated workspace for teams of up to 149 people using ChatGPT as well as admin tools for team management. In addition to gaining access to GPT-4, GPT-4 with Vision and DALL-E3, ChatGPT Team lets teams build and share GPTs for their business needs.OpenAIs GPT store officially launchesAfter some back and forth over the last few months, OpenAIs GPT Store is finally here. The feature lives in a new tab in the ChatGPT web client, and includes a range of GPTs developed both by OpenAIs partners and the wider dev community.To access the GPT Store, users must be subscribed to one of OpenAIs premium ChatGPT plans ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Team.Developing AI models would be impossible without copyrighted materials, OpenAI claimsFollowing a proposed ban on using news publications and books to train AI chatbots in the U.K., OpenAI submitted a plea to the House of Lords communications and digital committee. OpenAI argued that it would be impossible to train AI models without using copyrighted materials, and that they believe copyright law does not forbid training.OpenAI claims The New York Times copyright lawsuit is without meritOpenAI published a public response to The New York Timess lawsuit against them and Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright law, claiming that the case is without merit.In the response, OpenAI reiterates its view that training AI models using publicly available data from the web is fair use. It also makes the case that regurgitation is less likely to occur with training data from a single source and places the onus on users to act responsibly.OpenAIs app store for GPTs planned to launch next weekAfter being delayed in December, OpenAI plans to launch its GPT Store sometime in the coming week, according to an email viewed by TechCrunch. OpenAI says developers building GPTs will have to review the companys updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure their GPTs are compliant before theyre eligible for listing in the GPT Store. OpenAIs update notably didnt include any information on the expected monetization opportunities for developers listing their apps on the storefront.OpenAI moves to shrink regulatory risk in EU around data privacyIn an email, OpenAI detailed an incoming update to its terms, including changing the OpenAI entity providing services to EEA and Swiss residents to OpenAI Ireland Limited. The move appears to be intended to shrink its regulatory risk in the European Union, where the company has been under scrutiny over ChatGPTs impact on peoples privacy.FAQs:What is ChatGPT? How does it work?ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to generate text after a user enters a prompt, developed by tech startup OpenAI. The chatbot uses GPT-4, a large language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.When did ChatGPT get released?November 30, 2022 is when ChatGPT was released for public use.What is the latest version of ChatGPT?Both the free version of ChatGPT and the paid ChatGPT Plus are regularly updated with new GPT models. The most recent model is GPT-4o.Can I use ChatGPT for free?There is a free version of ChatGPT that only requires a sign-in in addition to the paid version, ChatGPT Plus.Who uses ChatGPT?Anyone can use ChatGPT! More and more tech companies and search engines are utilizing the chatbot to automate text or quickly answer user questions/concerns.What companies use ChatGPT?Multiple enterprises utilize ChatGPT, although others may limit the use of the AI-powered tool.Most recently, Microsoft announced at its 2023 Build conference that it is integrating its ChatGPT-based Bing experience into Windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D display startup Looking Glass utilizes ChatGPT to produce holograms you can communicate with by using ChatGPT. And nonprofit organization Solana officially integrated the chatbot into its network with a ChatGPT plug-in geared toward end users to help onboard into the web3 space.What does GPT mean in ChatGPT?GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.What is the difference between ChatGPT and a chatbot?A chatbot can be any software/system that holds dialogue with you/a person but doesnt necessarily have to be AI-powered. For example, there are chatbots that are rules-based in the sense that theyll give canned responses to questions.ChatGPT is AI-powered and utilizes LLM technology to generate text after a prompt.Can ChatGPT write essays?Yes.Can ChatGPT commit libel?Due to the nature of how these models work, they dont know or care whether something is true, only that it looks true. Thats a problem when youre using it to do your homework, sure, but when it accuses you of a crime you didnt commit, that may well at this point be libel.We will see how handling troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the next few months as tech and legal experts attempt to tackle the fastest moving target in the industry.Does ChatGPT have an app?Yes, there is a free ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android users.What is the ChatGPT character limit?Its not documented anywhere that ChatGPT has a character limit. However, users have noted that there are some character limitations after around 500 words.Does ChatGPT have an API?Yes, it was released March 1, 2023.What are some sample everyday uses for ChatGPT?Everyday examples include programming, scripts, email replies, listicles, blog ideas, summarization, etc.What are some advanced uses for ChatGPT?Advanced use examples include debugging code, programming languages, scientific concepts, complex problem solving, etc.How good is ChatGPT at writing code?It depends on the nature of the program. While ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it cant necessarily program an entire apps worth of code. Thats because ChatGPT lacks context awareness in other words, the generated code isnt always appropriate for the specific context in which its being used.Can you save a ChatGPT chat?Yes. OpenAI allows users to save chats in the ChatGPT interface, stored in the sidebar of the screen. There are no built-in sharing features yet.Are there alternatives to ChatGPT?Yes. There are multiple AI-powered chatbot competitors such as Together, Googles Gemini and Anthropics Claude, and developers are creating open source alternatives.How does ChatGPT handle data privacy?OpenAI hassaidthat individuals in certain jurisdictions (such as the EU) can object to the processing of their personal information by its AI models by filling outthis form. This includes the ability to make requests for deletion of AI-generated references about you. Although OpenAI notes it may not grant every request since it must balance privacy requests against freedom of expression in accordance with applicable laws.The web form for making a deletion of data about you request is entitled OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request.In its privacy policy, the ChatGPT maker makes a passing acknowledgement of the objection requirements attached to relying on legitimate interest (LI), pointing users towards more information about requesting an opt out when it writes: See herefor instructions on how you can opt out of our use of your information to train our models.What controversies have surrounded ChatGPT?Recently, Discord announced that it had integrated OpenAIs technology into its bot named Clyde where two users tricked Clyde into providing them with instructions for making the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary mixture napalm.An Australian mayor has publicly announced he may sue OpenAI for defamation due to ChatGPTs false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery. This would be the first defamation lawsuit against the text-generating service.CNET found itself in the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles under a mysterious byline completely generated by AI. The private equity company that owns CNET, Red Ventures, was accused of using ChatGPT for SEO farming, even if the information was incorrect.Several major school systems and colleges, including New York City Public Schools, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and devices. They claim that the AI impedes the learning process by promoting plagiarism and misinformation, a claim that not every educator agrees with.There have also been cases of ChatGPT accusing individuals of false crimes.Where can I find examples of ChatGPT prompts?Several marketplaces host and provide ChatGPT prompts, either for free or for a nominal fee. One is PromptBase. Another is ChatX. More launch every day.Can ChatGPT be detected?Poorly. Several tools claim to detect ChatGPT-generated text, but in our tests, theyre inconsistent at best.Are ChatGPT chats public?No. But OpenAI recently disclosed a bug, since fixed, that exposed the titles of some users conversations to other people on the service.What lawsuits are there surrounding ChatGPT?None specifically targeting ChatGPT. But OpenAI is involved in at least one lawsuit that has implications for AI systems trained on publicly available data, which would touch on ChatGPT.Are there issues regarding plagiarism with ChatGPT?Yes. Text-generating AI models like ChatGPT have a tendency to regurgitate content from their training data.

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The Machines Calling Balls and Strikes - Baseball Joins the Tech Takeover

Baseball fans tuning into spring training games may have noticed another new wrinkle in a sport that's experienced a host of changes in recent years. Batters, pitchers and catchers can challenge a home plate umpire's ball or strike call.Powered by Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology, the automated ball-strike system replays the pitch trajectory to determine whether the umpire's call was correct.To minimize disruptions, Major League Baseball permits each team a maximum of two failed challenges per game but allows unlimited challenges as long as they're successful. For now, the technology will be limited to the spring exhibition games. But it could be implemented in the regular season as soon as 2026.MLB's automated ball-strike technology could be used in big league games as soon as 2026.Count future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer among the skeptics."We're humans," the Toronto Blue Jays hurler said after a spring training game in which he challenged two calls and lost both to the robo umps. "Can we just be judged by humans?"Editor's Note:Guest authors Arthur Daemmrich and Eric S. Hintz wrote this article for The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Arthur is a Professor and director of the Arizona State University Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. Eric is a historian and director of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution.Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But as co-editors of the recently published volume "Inventing for Sports," which includes case studies of over 20 sports inventions, we find that new technology doesn't mean perfect precision nor does it necessarily lead to better competition from the fan perspective.Cue the camerasWhile playing in a cricket match in the 1990s, British computer scientist Paul Hawkins fumed over a bad call. He decided to make sure the same mistake wouldn't happen again.Drawing on his doctoral training in artificial intelligence, he designed an array of high-speed cameras to capture a ball's flight path and velocity, and a software algorithm that used the data to predict the ball's likely future path.He founded Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd. in 2001, and his first clients were cricket broadcasters who used the technology's trajectory graphics to enhance their telecasts.By 2006, professional tennis leagues began deploying Hawk-Eye to help officials adjudicate line calls. Cricket leagues followed in 2009, incorporating it to help umpires make what are known as "leg before wicket" calls, among others. And professional soccer leagues started using the technology in 2012 to determine whether balls cross the goal line.Reaction to Hawk-Eye has been mixed. In tennis, players, fans and broadcasters have generally embraced the technology. During a challenge, spectators often clap rhythmically in anticipation as the Hawk-Eye official cues up the replayed trajectory."As a player, and now as a TV commentator," tennis legend Pam Shriver said in 2006, "I dreamed of the day when technology would take the accuracy of line calling to the next level. That day has now arrived."But Hawk-Eye isn't perfect. In 2020 and 2022, the firm publicly apologized to fans of professional soccer clubs after its goal-line technology made errant calls after players congregated in the goal box and obstructed key camera sight lines.Perfection isn't possibleCritics have also raised more fundamental concerns.In their 2016 book "Bad Call," researchers Harry Collins, Robert Evans and Christopher Higgins reminded readers that Hawk-Eye is not a replay of the ball's actual position; rather, it produces a prediction of a trajectory, based on the ball's prior velocity, rotation and position.The authors lament that Hawk-Eye and what they term "decision aids" have undermined the authority of referees and umpires, which they consider bad for the games.Statcast is another Hawk-Eye technology. The advanced tracking system was introduced in all 30 MLB stadiums in 2015, using radar and high-speed cameras to analyze player movements, pitch trajectories, and batted ball data.Ultimately, there are no purely objective standards for fairness and accuracy in technological officiating. They are always negotiated. Even the most precise officiating innovations require human consensus to define and validate their role. Technologies like photo-finish cameras, instant replay and ball-tracking systems have improved the precision of officiating, but their deployment is shaped and often limited by human judgment and institutional decisions.For example, today's best race timing systems are accurate to 0.0001 seconds, yet Olympic sports such as swimming, track and field, and alpine skiing report results in increments of only 0.01 seconds. This can lead to situations such as Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze's gold medal tie in the women's downhill ski race at the 2014 Sochi Olympics in which the timing officials admitted that their equipment could have revealed the actual winner. But they were forced to report a dead heat under the rules established by the ski federation.With slow-motion instant replays, determining a catch or a player's intention for a personal foul can actually be distorted by low-speed replay, since humans aren't adept at adjusting to shifting replay speeds.One of the big issues with baseball's automated ball-strike system has to do with the strike zone itself.MLB's rule book defines the strike zone as the depth and width of home plate and the vertical distance between the midpoint of a player's torso to the point just below his knees. The interpretation of the strike zone is notoriously subjective and varies with each umpire.For example, human umpires often call a strike if the ball crosses the plate in the rear corner. However the automated ball-strike system uses an imaginary plane that bisects the middle not the front or the rear of home plate.There are more complications. Since every player has a unique height, each has a unique strike zone. At the outset of spring training, each player's height was measured standing up without cleats and then confirmed through a biomechanical analysis.But what if a player changes their batting stance and decides to crouch? What if they change their cleats and raise their strike zone by an extra quarter-inch?Of course, as has been the case in tennis, soccer and other sports, Hawk-Eye can help rectify genuinely bad calls. By allowing teams to correct the most disputed calls without eliminating the human element of umpiring, MLB hopes to strike a balance between tradition and change.Fans have the final sayFinding a balance between machine precision and the human element of baseball is crucial.Players' and managers' efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike zone have long been a part of the game. And fans eagerly cheer or jeer players and managers who argue with the umpires. When ejections take place, more yelling and taunting ensues.Though often unacknowledged in negotiations between leagues and athletes, fan enthusiasm is a key component of whether to adopt new technology.For example, innovative "full-body" swimsuits contributed to a wave of record-breaking finishes in the sport between 2000 and 2009. But uneven access to the newest gear raised the specter of what some called "technological doping." World Aquatics worried that as records fell simply due to equipment innovations, spectators would stop watching and broadcast and sponsorship revenue would dry up. The swimming federation ended up banning full-body swimsuits.Of course, algorithmic officiating differs from technologies that enhance performance and speed. But it runs a similar risk of turning off fans. So MLB, like other sports leagues, is being thrust into the role of managing technological change.When managers argue balls and strikes, it can make for great TV.Assessing technologies for their immediate and long-term impact is difficult enough for large government agencies. Sports leagues lack those resources, yet are nonetheless being forced to carefully consider how they introduce and regulate various innovations.MLB, to its credit, is proceeding incrementally. While the logical conclusion to the current automated ball-strike experiment would be fully electronic officiating, we think fans and players will resist going that far.The league's challenge system is a test. But the real umpires will ultimately be the fans.

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