"Of course, it’s going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker."Feel The AGIOpenAI's former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, has long been preparing for artificial general intelligence, an ill-defined industry term for the point at which human intellect is outpaced by algorithms — and he's got some wild plans for when that day may come.In interviews with The Atlantic's Karen Hao, who is writing a book about the unsuccessful November 2023 ouster of CEO Sam Altman, people close to Sutskever said that he seemed mighty preoccupied with AGI.According to a researcher who heard the since-resigned company cofounder wax prolific about it during a summer 2023 meeting, an apocalyptic scenario seemed to be a foregone conclusion to Sutskever."Once we all get into the bunker..." the chief scientist began."I’m sorry," the researcher interrupted, "the bunker?""We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI," Sutskever said, matter-of-factly. "Of course, it’s going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker."The exchange highlights just how confident OpenAI's leadership was, and remains, in the technology that it believes it's building — even though others argue that we are nowhere near AGI and may never get there.RapturousAs theatrical as that exchange sounds, two other people present for the exchange confirmed that OpenAI's resident AGI soothsayer — who, notably, claimed months before ChatGPT's 2022 release that he believes some AI models are "slightly conscious" — did indeed mention a bunker."There is a group of people — Ilya being one of them — who believe that building AGI will bring about a rapture," the first researcher told Hao. "Literally, a rapture."As others who spoke to the author for her forthcoming book "Empire of AI" noted, Sutskever's AGI obsession had taken on a novel tenor by summer 2023. Aside from his interest in building AGI, he had also become concerned about the way OpenAI was handling the technology it was gestating.That concern ultimately led the mad scientist, alongside several other members of the company's board, to oust CEO Sam Altman a few months later, and ultimately to his own departure.Though Sutskever led the coup, his resolve, according to sources that The Atlantic spoke to, began to crack once he realized OpenAI's rank-and-file were falling in line behind Altman. He eventually rescinded his opinion that the CEO was not fit to lead in what seems to have been an effort to save his skin — an effort that, in the end, turned out to be fruitless.Interestingly, Hao also learned that people inside OpenAI had a nickname for the failed coup d'etat: "The Blip."Share This Article #openai039s #top #scientist #wanted #quotbuild

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OpenAI just made its biggest move yet — buying Jony Ive's AI startup — with hopes of building something that feels as magical as the first iPhone.Image Credit: OpenAIInitially, it was reported that OpenAI would buy Jony Ive's AI startup, simply named "io", for million. To say that the actual sale cost was a bit higher would be an understatement.The final sale price wound up being nearly billion — in stock. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums #openai039s #65b #bet #jony #ive

Though artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm, it's still pretty bad at tasks demanding a high-degree of flexibility, like writing computer code.Earlier this year, ChatGPT maker OpenAI published a white paper taking AI to task for its lackluster performance in a coding scrum. Among other things, it found that even the most advanced AI models are "still unable to solve the majority" of coding tasks.Later in an interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that these models are "on the precipice of being incredible at software engineering," adding that "software engineering by the end of 2025 looks very different than software engineering at the beginning of 2025."It was a bold prediction without much substance to back it — if anything, generative AI like the kind Altman pedals has only gotten worse at coding as hallucination rates increase with each new iteration.Now we know what he was playing at.Early on Friday, OpenAI revealed a preview of Codex, the company's stab at a specialty coding "agent" — a fluffy industry term that seems to change definitions depending on which company is trying to sell one to you."Codex is a cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel," the company's research preview reads.The new tool will seemingly help software engineers by writing new features, debugging existing code, and answering questions about source code, among other tasks.Contrary to ChatGPT's everything-in-a-box model, which is geared toward the mass market, Codex has been trained to "generate code that closely mirrors human style and PR preferences." That's a charitable way to say "steal other people's code" — an AI training tactic OpenAI has been sued for in the not-too-distant past, when it helped Microsoft's Copilot go to town on open-source and copyrighted code shared on GitHub.Thanks in large part to a technicality, OpenAI, GitHub, and Microsoft came out of that legal scuffle pretty much unscathed, giving OpenAI some convenient legal armor should it choose to go it alone with its own in-house model trained on GitHub code.In the Codex release, OpenAI claims its coding agent operates entirely in the cloud, cut off from the internet, meaning it can't scour the web for data like ChatGPT. Instead, OpenAI "limits the agent’s interaction solely to the code explicitly provided via GitHub repositories and pre-installed dependencies configured by the user via a setup script."Still, the data used to train Codex had to come from somewhere, and judging by the rash of copyright lawsuits that seem to plague the AI industry, it's only a matter of time before we find out where.More on OpenAI: ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre DelusionsShare This Article #codex #openai039s #new #coding #agent

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft to bring OpenAI's Sora video generation API to Azure AI Foundry next week Pradeep Viswanathan Neowin @pradeepviswav · May 19, 2025 18:32 EDT Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry provides developers access to more than 1,900 AI models suitable for a variety of use cases and industries. However, Azure AI Foundry currently lacks text-to-video generation models, which are already available on AWS via its Nova Reels API and on Google Cloud via its Veo API. Microsoft relies on OpenAI for all its frontier AI needs. Although OpenAI has developed the Sora video generation model, it has not yet been made available as an API for developers. However, ChatGPT Premium plan customers can use Sora to create videos using text prompts. Due to the significant GPU resources required to make Sora available to all ChatGPT users and developers, OpenAI has not yet rolled it out widely, despite launching it back in December 2024. At Build 2025, Microsoft announced that Sora will be available in Azure AI Foundry starting next week. The company also introduced a new 'Video Playground' section within Azure AI Foundry, where developers can experiment with video generation models like Sora. Developers will be able to customize the aspect ratio, resolution, and duration of the generated videos. Additionally, Sora will be accessible via the Azure OpenAI Service, allowing developers to integrate it into their applications. Microsoft also highlighted that T&Pm, a WPP company, is already using Sora through the Azure OpenAI Service to enhance its workflow. The company is leveraging Sora to easily visualize early concepts and scale big ideas through to production. You can read more such use cases for the Sora API here. Tags Report a problem with article Follow @NeowinFeed #microsoft #bring #openai039s #sora #video

Sam Altman's OpenAI launches Codex, an AI tool to write codes and fix bugs for developers. Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS 2025-05-16T22:17:35Z d Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? OpenAI launched Codex, an AI tool to write codes and fix bugs for developers. As an AI Agent, Codex could also help users with an Amazon order or a dinner reservation. Codex and GPT-4.5, which was launched in April, both come with a heftier price tag of per month. OpenAI on Friday rolled out a powerful new tool for software developers, as the company pushes further into automating coding tasks with AI.The new product, called Codex, is an AI agent designed to help programmers write code, fix bugs, and run tests — often simultaneously."Technical teams at OpenAI have started using Codex as part of their daily toolkit," OpenAI said in a blogpost. "It is most often used by OpenAI engineers to offload repetitive, well-scoped tasks, like refactoring, renaming, and writing tests, that would otherwise break focus.""When uncertain or faced with test failures, the Codex agent explicitly communicates these issues, enabling users to make informed decisions about how to proceed," OpenAI added.Unlike traditional chatbots that respond to prompts and generate responses in mostly words, AI agents like Codex can interact with other software and online services, such as helping you with a DoorDash order or booking a dinner reservation.The Codex rollout came after OpenAI launched GPT-4.5 in February. A livestream demo highlighted its improved reasoning, intuition, and reduced hallucinations.CEO Sam Altman described it as "the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person," but also said that its intelligence and nuance comes at steep computational cost. Due to GPU shortages, GPT-4.5 was initially available only to -per-month ChatGPT Pro users.Codex is now available to subscribers of OpenAI's ChatGPT ProOpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comments. Recommended video #openai039s #new #agent #tool #codex