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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s 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 closed the year with “12 Days of OpenAI,” a series of 12 streams highlighting new product reveals and features. The event included the aforementioned Sora model, the rollout of real-time vision capabilities in Advanced Voice Mode, as well as a preview of its new “reasoning” model family: o3 and o3-mini. You can revisit all the announcements on our live blog.

It wasn’t all big feature rollouts and model reveals though. OpenAI faced internal drama this year, including sizable 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 OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit.

Below, you’ll find a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year. If you have any other questions, check out our ChatGPT FAQ here.

Timeline of the most recent ChatGPT updates

January 2025

OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for US government agencies

OpenAI 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 OpenAI’s 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 OpenAI’s tools for the handling of non-public sensitive data.

More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults

Younger 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 they’ve 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 it’s 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 days

OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the company’s 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 Operator’s.

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously

OpenAI 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.

OpenAI may preview its agent tool for users on the $200-per-month Pro plan

Operator, OpenAI’s agent tool, could be released sooner rather than later. Changes to ChatGPT’s code base suggest that Operator will be available as an early research preview to users on the $200 Pro subscription plan. The changes aren’t yet publicly visible, but a user on X who goes by Choi spotted these updates in ChatGPT’s client-side code. TechCrunch separately identified the same references to Operator on OpenAI’s website.

OpenAI tests phone number-only ChatGPT signups

OpenAI 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 can’t upgrade to one of OpenAI’s paid plans without verifying their account via an email. Multi-factor authentication also isn’t supported without a valid email.

ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks

ChatGPT’s 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 Z’

OpenAI 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” they’d 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 it’s possible they went live prematurely.

December 2024

ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research reveals

ChatGPT 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 AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of AGI based on the startup’s 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 trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy

OpenAI released new research outlining the company’s 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 OpenAI’s safety policy. According to OpenAI’s 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 models

OpenAI 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 landline

In 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 users

OpenAI 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 it’s also been integrated into Advanced Voice Mode.

OpenAI blames massive ChatGPT outage on a ‘new telemetry service’

OpenAI 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 wasn’t 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 time

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users could access a new “Santa Mode” voice during December. The feature allows users to speak with ChatGPT’s 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 you’ve ever heard.

OpenAI adds vision to Advanced Voice Mode

OpenAI 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 what’s on a device’s screen through screen sharing.

There’s more to come from OpenAI through December 23. Tune in to our live blog to stay updated.

ChatGPT and Sora hit with a major outage

ChatGPT 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 everyone

Canvas, OpenAI’s 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 demand

OpenAI 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 subscribers

OpenAI 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 Monday’s “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 o1

On 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 OpenAI’s 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, we’ll 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 holidays

OpenAI announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” which will feature livestreams every weekday starting December 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Each day’s stream is said to include either a product launch or a demo in varying sizes.

ChatGPT surpasses 300M weekly active users, Sam Altman says

At 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 2024

Users discovered the name ‘David Mayer’ crashed ChatGPT

ChatGPT 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.

Ads might be headed to ChatGPT 

OpenAI is toying with the idea of getting into ads. CFO Sarah Friar told the Financial Times it’s 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 OpenAI

A 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 upgrade

OpenAI 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 ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode to the web

ChatGPT’s 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 ChatGPT’s paying Plus, Enterprise, Teams, or Edu subscribers.

ChatGPT can now read some of your Mac’s desktop apps

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 you’re working on through its chatbot as context, alongside your prompt.

OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher

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 OpenAI’s safety systems team. It’s 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 elsewhere

OpenAI 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.com

Adding 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.

Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI

The former head of Meta’s augmented reality glasses efforts is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware. Kalinowski is a hardware executive who began leading Meta’s 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 app

Apple 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 OpenAI’s premium subscription plan, which costs $20 a month.

October 2024

Sam Altman says a lack of compute capacity is delaying product releases

In 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 it’d like, including the vision capabilities for Advanced Voice Mode first teased in May. Altman also indicated that the next major release of DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator, has no launch timeline, and that Sora, OpenAI’s 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 challenger

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer. Powered by a fine-tuned version of OpenAI’s 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 PC

OpenAI has rolled out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT’s desktop apps for macOS and Windows. For Mac users, that means that both ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode can coexist with Siri on the same device, leading the way for ChatGPT’s Apple Intelligence integration.

OpenAI is reportedly planning to build its first AI chip

Reuters 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 history

OpenAI announced it’s 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 update 

With 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 won’t release a model called Orion this year

OpenAI 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 “don’t have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year,” but that leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.

ChatGPT comes to Windows

OpenAI 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 Hearst

OpenAI 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 projects

OpenAI 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 $157B

OpenAI 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 OpenAI’s total raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase.

Dev Day brings Realtime API to AI app developers

At 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 can’t use third party voices, in order to prevent copyright issues.

September 2024

OpenAI might raise the price of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029

OpenAI 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 it’ll charge $44 per month for ChatGPT Plus.

Mira Murati exists OpenAI

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced that she is leaving the company after more than six years. Hours after the announcement, OpenAI’s 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 look

After a delay, OpenAI is finally rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to an expanded set of ChatGPT’s 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 calculator

A 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, it’s 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 itself

OpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also known as “Strawberry.” The collection of models are available in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s 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 can’t 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 hasn’t set a release date.

A hacker was able to trick ChatGPT into giving instructions on how to make bombs

An 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 chatbot’s 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 offerings

OpenAI 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 OpenAI’s corporate users are based in the US.

Volkswagen rolls out its ChatGPT assistant to the US

Volkswagen 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 Cerence’s 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 2024

OpenAI inks content deal with Condé Nast

As part of the new deal, OpenAI will surface stories from Condé Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the “multi-year” deal will involve payment from OpenAI in some form and a Condé Nast spokesperson told TechCrunch that OpenAI will have permission to train on Condé Nast content.

Our first impressions of ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode

TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff has been playing around with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, in what he describes as “the most convincing taste I’ve 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 ChatGPT

OpenAI 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 doesn’t seem that it reached much of an audience.

OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some weird stuff sometimes

OpenAI 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-4o’s weirder quirks, like mimicking the voice of the person speaking to it or randomly shouting in the middle of a conversation.

ChatGPT’s mobile app reports its biggest month yet

After a big jump following the release of OpenAI’s 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 ChatGPT

OpenAI 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 it’s taking a “deliberate approach” to releasing it.

July 2024

ChatGPT’s advanced Voice Mode starts rolling out to some users

OpenAI is giving users their first access to GPT-4o’s 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 voice’s similarity to Scarlett Johansson, leading OpenAI to delay its release.

OpenAI announces new search prototype, SearchGPT

OpenAI 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 claims

A 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 mini

OpenAI released its latest small AI model, GPT-4o mini. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s 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 research

OpenAI 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 2024

OpenAI makes CriticGPT to find mistakes in GPT-4

OpenAI announced it has trained a model off of GPT-4, dubbed CriticGPT, which aims to find errors in ChatGPT’s 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 TIME

OpenAI and TIME announced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the magazine’s content, both modern and archival, to ChatGPT. As part of the deal, TIME will also gain access to OpenAI’s technology in order to develop new audience-based products.

OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode

OpenAI 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 Mac

ChatGPT 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 Siri

Apple 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.

House Oversight subcommittee invites Scarlett Johansson to testify about ‘Sky’ controversy

Scarlett Johansson has been invited to testify about the controversy surrounding OpenAI’s Sky voice at a hearing for the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. In a letter, Rep. Nancy Mace said Johansson’s testimony could “provide a platform” for concerns around deepfakes.

ChatGPT experiences two outages in a single day

ChatGPT 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. Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity also experienced some issues.

May 2024

The Atlantic and Vox Media ink content deals with OpenAI

The 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 OpenAI’s 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 ChatGPT’s enterprise tier

OpenAI announced a new deal with management consulting giant PwC. The company will become OpenAI’s biggest customer to date, covering 100,000 users, and will become OpenAI’s first partner for selling its enterprise offerings to other businesses.

OpenAI says it is training its GPT-4 successor

OpenAI 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 OpenAI’s products.

Former OpenAI director claims the board found out about ChatGPT on Twitter

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 didn’t disclose his involvement in the OpenAI Startup Fund.

ChatGPT’s mobile app revenue saw biggest spike yet following GPT-4o launch

The launch of GPT-4o has driven the company’s 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 OpenAI’s most recent launch.

OpenAI to remove ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice

After 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 Sky’s 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 OneDrive

OpenAI 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 data

OpenAI 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 ChatGPT

OpenAI’s 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.

OpenAI to build a tool that lets content creators opt out of AI training

The company announced it’s 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 porn

In a new peek behind the curtain of its AI’s secret instructions, OpenAI also released a new NSFW policy. Though it’s 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 partnership

In a new partnership, OpenAI will get access to developer platform Stack Overflow’s 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 2024

Alden 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 Times

OpenAI has partnered with another news publisher in Europe, London’s 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 Japanese

OpenAI 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 companies

According to Reuters, OpenAI’s 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 Turbo

Premium 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 there’s a catch

You can now use ChatGPT without signing up for an account, but it won’t be quite the same experience. You won’t 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 2024

OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam

TechCrunch found that the OpenAI’s 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 OpenAI’s claims that it “hacked” ChatGPT for its copyright lawsuit

In a court filing opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss The New York Times’ lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the newspaper asserted that “OpenAI’s 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 doesn’t say whether artists should be paid for training data

At a SXSW 2024 panel, Peter Deng, OpenAI’s 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 day

ChatGPT’s 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 aloud

OpenAI 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.

February 2024

OpenAI partners with Dublin City Council to use GPT-4 for tourism

As 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 services

New 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 hours

ChatGPT 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 ChatGPT

The 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 Match’s $20 million-plus bet on AI in 2024.

ChatGPT will now remember — and forget — things you tell it to

As 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 won’t erase ChatGPT’s or a custom GPT’s memories — you must delete the memory itself.

OpenAI begins rolling out “Temporary Chat” feature

Initially 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 won’t be aware of previous conversations or access memories but will follow custom instructions if they’re enabled.

But, OpenAI says it may keep a copy of Temporary Chat conversations for up to 30 days for “safety reasons.”

January 2024

ChatGPT users can now invoke GPTs directly in chats

Paid 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 conversations

Screenshots 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 Europe’s privacy laws, Italian DPA tells OpenAI

OpenAI has been told it’s suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of ChatGPT by Italy’s data protection authority. Details of the draft findings haven’t 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 guidelines

In an effort to win the trust of parents and policymakers, OpenAI announced it’s 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 board

After a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the lack of diversity in OpenAI’s 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 company’s 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 work

In a blog post, OpenAI announced price drops for GPT-3.5’s 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 candidate

OpenAI 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 University

Beginning in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT’s 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 OpenAI’s first partnership with a higher education institution.

Winner of a literary prize reveals around 5% her novel was written by ChatGPT

After 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-5

In 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 models

OpenAI 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 OpenAI’s 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 misinformation

In 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 applications

In 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 debuts

Aptly 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.

OpenAI’s GPT store officially launches

After some back and forth over the last few months, OpenAI’s 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 OpenAI’s partners and the wider dev community.

To access the GPT Store, users must be subscribed to one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans — ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Team.

Developing AI models would be “impossible” without copyrighted materials, OpenAI claims

Following 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 merit

OpenAI published a public response to The New York Times’s 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.”

OpenAI’s app store for GPTs planned to launch next week

After 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 company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure their GPTs are compliant before they’re eligible for listing in the GPT Store. OpenAI’s update notably didn’t 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 privacy

In 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 ChatGPT’s impact on people’s 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 it 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 doesn’t necessarily have to be AI-powered. For example, there are chatbots that are rules-based in the sense that they’ll 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 don’t know or care whether something is true, only that it looks true. That’s a problem when you’re using it to do your homework, sure, but when it accuses you of a crime you didn’t 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?

It’s 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 can’t necessarily program an entire app’s worth of code. That’s because ChatGPT lacks context awareness — in other words, the generated code isn’t always appropriate for the specific context in which it’s 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, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, and developers are creating open source alternatives.

How does ChatGPT handle data privacy?

OpenAI has said that individuals in “certain jurisdictions” (such as the EU) can object to the processing of their personal information by its AI models by filling out this 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 here for 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 OpenAI’s 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 ChatGPT’s 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, they’re 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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Se están formando grietas en la armadura de mentiras de Elon Musk

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A medida que Elon Musk se mueve para desestimar una demanda de los accionistas de Tesla alegando que falló sus deberes fiduciarios, OpenAi ahora está demandando a almizcle y exponiendo mentiras, lo que podría ayudar a los accionistas de Tesla.

Parece que se están formando grietas en la armadura de mentiras de Elon Musk.

El año pasado, los inversores de Tesla demandaron a Musk por violar el deber fiduciario y el túnel de recursos sobre la fundación de Xai, una compañía privada de IA bajo su control.

Musk había declarado previamente que Tesla sería un jugador importante en la IA y que los productos de IA serían fundamentales para el futuro de Tesla, pero a principios de 2024, el CEO amenazó con no construir productos de IA en Tesla si no obtuvo más control sobre la compañía al obtener más acciones.

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También redirigió el hardware NVIDIA AI adquirido por Tesla a XAI y contrató a los empleados de Tesla para que trabajara en XAI.

En resumen, los accionistas de Tesla argumentan que Musk incumple sus deberes fiduciarios a los accionistas creando una empresa privada que compite directamente con Tesla. La demanda también cita problemas similares con la adquisición de Musk de Twitter.

Esta semana, los miembros de la junta de Musk y Tesla, que también son acusados ​​en la demanda por no detener a Musk, han presentado que tratar de desestimar la demanda (a través de Bloomberg):

La demanda por los accionistas de un grupo de fondos de pensiones y otros inversores “es larga en hipérbole, pero lamentablemente corto en hechos bien plantados”, dijeron los miembros de la junta en una presentación judicial el lunes. “Sin embargo, no pueden escapar de la realidad innegable: Tesla ha prosperado bajo esta Junta y CEO, entregando rendimientos astronómicos a los accionistas mientras avanza su misión de crear abundancia sostenible para todos”.

Probablemente pasará un tiempo antes de que la demanda se mueva por la corte, pero mientras tanto, los accionistas de Tesla han encontrado un aliado fuerte: OpenAi.

Musk ha estado atormentando durante mucho tiempo con demandas. El CEO de Tesla cofundó OpenAI como una organización sin fines de lucro en 2015 para desarrollar una inteligencia general artificial que contribuya positivamente a la humanidad.

A principios de 2018, Musk renunció a Operai, citando “conflictos de intereses con Tesla”.

En ese momento, el CEO de Tesla comenzó a empujar al fabricante de automóviles cada vez más hacia la autocontrol, que a menudo describió como “IA del mundo real”, y el fabricante de automóviles comenzó a competir por el talento de IA con OpenAi.

Si bien aparentemente estaba en buenos términos con Operai después de su partida, unos años más tarde, comenzó a criticar públicamente a la organización por mudarse a un modelo limitado con fines de lucro, lo que argumentaron que era necesario debido a los miles de millones de dólares necesarios para construir el hardware de capacitación de cómputo para tener un impacto en el sector de la IA.

Musk incluso demandó a la compañía por la mudanza y se burló de manera pública repetidamente.

No ha quedado claro cuán graves han sido las acciones legales desde que Musk incluso afirmó que dejaría caer la demanda si OpenAi cambiara su nombre:

Operai se ha estado defendiendo con el lanzamiento de algunos correos electrónicos que muestran que Musk realmente acordó durante años que la organización necesitaba mudarse a un modelo con fines de lucro.

Ahora, Operai ha contrarrestado a Musk y ha publicado más detalles que muestran que Musk ha estado engañando al público durante años.

También explica sus últimos movimientos en Tesla y Xai.

El esfuerzo de AI de Musk fue de OpenAi a Tesla a Xai

Todos los documentos publicados por OpenAi como parte de la contratación pintan una imagen mucho más clara de la participación de Musk con la IA y cómo evolucionó a lo largo de los años.

Comenzaré con una línea de tiempo clara para que sea más fácil de entender.

  • 2010: Musk ha estado fascinado durante mucho tiempo con la IA y surgió como una de las voces tecnológicas más prominentes que advierte sobre sus peligros.
  • 2015: Musk cofunda Openai como una organización sin fines de lucro para tratar de crear un AGI seguro.
  • 2017: Musk comunica en privado a muchas personas en OpenAI y la comunidad de IA que la compañía necesita cambiar a un modelo con fines de lucro y recaudar miles de millones para tener éxito debido al costo del hardware de IA.
  • 2018: Musk intentó obtener el control de OpenAi y fusionarlo con Tesla, pero esto fue rechazado por la junta de OpenAi, que finalmente tomó inversiones de Microsoft para comenzar su brazo con fines de lucro, ya que le dio a la organización más independencia.
  • 2018: El almizcle se va Openai, citando un conflicto de intereses con Tesla.
  • 2018-2022: Musk posiciona a Tesla como “el líder mundial en IA”, contrata una tonelada de talento de IA y afirma que Tesla “desempeñará un papel importante en AGI”.
  • 2022: Musk vende decenas de miles de millones de dólares en acciones de Tesla, en parte para comprar un Twitter demasiado caro.
  • 2023: Poco después del lanzamiento viral de ChatGPT de Operai, Musk crea una nueva empresa privada, XAI, para desarrollar productos de IA y competir con OpenAI.
  • 2024: Un juez rescinde el paquete de compensación de CEO de Tesla de $ 55 mil millones de Musk, que habría aumentado su participación en Tesla de regreso a donde estaba antes de comprar Twitter.
  • 2024: Musk amenaza a los accionistas de Tesla de que no construirá productos de IA en Tesla a menos que obtenga más control (también conocido como más acciones).
  • 2024: Musk contrata a los empleados de Tesla para XAI y redirige los envíos de la capacitación de IA desde Tesla a XAI.
  • 2024: Musk demanda a Openai para tratar de bloquear su transición en un negocio con beneficio con fines de lucro.

Operai tiene todos los recibos para probar esto. Recomiendo leer todos los correos electrónicos porque dan excelentes ideas sobre la persona de Musk y cómo se presenta públicamente frente a lo que dice en privado.

Estos son algunos de los aspectos más destacados para probar la línea de tiempo anterior:

Al principio de la fundación de Openai en 2015, se propuso que fuera una organización sin fines de lucro vinculada a Y Combinator, la compañía de Sam Altman en ese momento, y Musk ya estaba sugiriendo que sea una C Corp regular:

Operai compartió muchos correos electrónicos internos y mensajes de texto entre los equipos, Musk y el asistente ejecutivo de Musk/Future Baby Mama, Shivon Zilis, discutiendo la necesidad de mucho más capital, lo que requerirá un traslado a con fines de lucro.

En 2017, ya que OpenAi estaba configurando por primera vez un brazo potencial con fines de lucro, Musk intentó tomar el control pidiendo acciones preferidas y una supermayoría:

Musk incluso solicitó una nueva corporación de beneficios, una estructura legal con fines de lucro que tiene como objetivo generar ganancias al tiempo que impacta positivamente en la sociedad y/o el medio ambiente.

El gerente de dinero de tiempo completo de Musk, Jared Birchall, figura como el único director de la nueva corporación.

Operai rechazó la propuesta de Musk, ya que le habría dado un control completo, pero insistieron en que todavía querían trabajar con él.

A principios de 2018, Musk cambió su propuesta de tratar de OpenAi adjunto a Tesla:

Esta propuesta también falló, ya que OpenAi sintió que esto también era un intento de almizcle para obtener el control completo.

Luego, Musk dejó Openai y centró sus esfuerzos de IA en Tesla hasta que redujo significativamente su participación en la compañía para comprar Twitter por capricho.

Luego, fundó Xai para convertirse en su principal esfuerzo de IA como empresa privada bajo su control mientras les decía a los accionistas de Tesla que la compañía era una “AI y una obra de robótica”.

Xai recientemente absorbió X (Twitter), lo que resultó en una compañía de $ 125 mil millones basada en la valoración inventada de Musk.

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Esto es extremadamente revelador. Muestra claramente que el objetivo principal de Musk es tener un control completo sobre la IA.

Trató de obtener el control de OpenAi, pero no pudo hacer que funcionara. Luego trató de hacer que funcionara con Tesla, pero se arruinó renunciando a cierto control (diría que todavía tiene un control firme sobre la compañía pública) a través de la adquisición de Twitter.

Entró en pánico después de que Operai lanzó ChatGPT y comenzó a Xai como una empresa privada por completo bajo su control, devaluando a Tesla en el proceso, de ahí la demanda actual de los accionistas.

Durante años, Musk atacó a Openai y mintió al público sobre el desacuerdo con la transición con fines de lucro, cuando en realidad lo estaba presionando desde el principio. La única diferencia es que Operai ahora era un competidor de Tesla, y luego Xai.

Quiero ser claro aquí. Operai tampoco está completamente limpio. Obviamente le debe a Musk algo por el financiamiento original de la compañía, pero los correos electrónicos también revelan que la organización intentó darle acciones y devolverle la devolución, pero Musk se negó.

Es probable que su negativa esté vinculada a su creencia de que podría hacer más daño demandando a OpenAi.

Parece que Musk cree que es una especie de súper genio que merece ser el que tiene el control de un potencial futuro AGI, y estaba dispuesto a mentir y engañar para que esto suceda.

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Los estafadores usaron OpenAi para inundar la web con SEO SPAM

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Akirabot es un programa que llena secciones de comentarios del sitio web y bots de chat de servicio al cliente con mensajes de spam generados por IA. Su objetivo es simple: quiere que se registre para un esquema de SEO que cuesta alrededor de $ 30 al mes. A ese precio bajo, jura, puede encantar los algoritmos de Google para llevarlo a la página delantera. Pero es una estafa.

Un nuevo informe de investigadores de la firma de ciberseguridad Sentinelone Documentó cómo los estafadores desplegaron AkirabotEl uso de los mensajes generados por OpenAI, y cómo evitó múltiples sistemas CaptCha y técnicas de detección de redes. Según el informe, el BOT apuntó a 420,000 dominios únicos y spam a 80,000 con éxito.

Quien dirige Akirbot opera su compañía de SEO bajo un montón de nombres diferentes, pero todos tienden a usar las palabras “Akira” o “Servicewrap”. Sentinelone dice que la herramienta encuentra sitios web diseñados por software de terceros como WIX o Squarespace y Spams Sectores de comentarios y chatbots automatizados con la promesa de obtener el sitio en la página principal de varios motores de búsqueda. Si tiene una pequeña empresa que existe en la web o ha ejecutado un sitio web basado en WordPress en los últimos 15 años, es probable que haya visto mensajes como esas manualidades de Akirabot.

“Mi nombre es Megan, del equipo de Akira: acabo de notar su sitio web a través de su lista de sitios web de WholeWeb, y quería ponerse en contacto con usted de inmediato”, se lee en un mensaje típico, que queda en los comentarios de una tienda de empresas de velas. “Tenemos una oferta especial para su sitio web hoy, y esa es la clasificación de la primera página en todos los principales motores de búsqueda (es decir, Google, Yahoo y Bing) + publicidad comercial de redes sociales y videos a partir de solo $ 29.99, lo que estoy absolutamente seguro que beneficiará a su sitio web y negocio, brindándole muchos nuevos clientes, muy rápido”.

El dominio más antiguo asociado con el bot se registró en 2022 y Sentinelone dice que pudo rastrear su progresión a medida que avanzaba de atacar los sitios de Shopify y evolucionar para enfrentarse a los creados con GoDaddy, Wix y Squarespace.

Según los investigadores, Akirabot utilizó una API de chat de Operai para crear mensajes personalizados con GPT-4O-Mini. Le llevó a GPT a darle mensajes después de solicitar que sea un “asistente útil que genera mensajes de marketing”. Todos los mensajes fueron similares, pero lo suficientemente diferentes como para engañar a los filtros de spam tradicionales.

Operai no respondió a la solicitud de comentarios de 404 medios, pero Sentinelone lo agradeció en la conclusión de su informe e imprimió una declaración de la compañía. “Estamos agradecidos con Sentinelone por compartir su investigación”, dijo Openii a Sentinelone. “Distribuir la producción de nuestros servicios para SPAM está en contra de nuestras políticas. La clave API involucrada está deshabilitada, y continuamos investigando y deshabilitaremos cualquier activo asociado. Tomamos un mal uso en serio y continuamente mejoramos nuestros sistemas para detectar el abuso”.

The bot also evaded CAPTCHA, according to the researchers “We identified an archive with files for CAPTCHA-related servers and browser fingerprints, which allow the bot’s web traffic to mimic a legitimate end user. The archives contain a fingerprint server that runs on the same system as the other AkiraBot tools and intercepts the website loading processes using Selenium WebDriver, an automation framework that simulates user browsing Actividad ”, dice el informe.

Sentinelone también detalló cómo el BOT usó hosts proxy para evitar la detección de redes. “En cada archivo de Sentinelone analizado, Akirabot usó el servicio SmartProxy. El sitio web de SmartProxy afirma que sus representantes son de origen ético y que proporcionan proxies centrales, móviles y residenciales de datos”, dijo el informe. “Cada versión del bot usa las mismas credenciales proxy, lo que sugiere que el mismo actor está detrás de cada iteración”.

Una variante reciente del BOT, Useakira, todavía está actualizado y tiene revisiones de clientes sobre Trustpilot. Todos son cinco estrellas o una estrella. “¡Acabo de enviar spam en mi chat de Wix! ¡Gracias por las reseñas aquí por ahorrarme algo de tiempo al confirmar que es spam!” Dijo un usuario.

“No tengo idea de quién es esta compañía hasta hoy, cuando de repente empiezo a recibir correos electrónicos. Han raspado mis datos de mi sitio web y los están utilizando para tratar de venderme publicidad del sitio web”, dijo otro incluido en el informe.

“Recibió 5 correos electrónicos Useakira en un día, aunque nuestros sitios web se comuniquen con nosotros, tratando de impulsar su servicio, Spam Company no se involucrará con ellos”, dijo un tercero.

También hay muchas reseñas de cinco estrellas para el servicio, pero Sentinelabs señaló que siguen un patrón. Los revisores de cinco estrellas tienden a realizar una revisión anterior unos días antes de la revisión Akira o ServiceWrap y los mensajes a menudo suenan igual. “Creemos que el actor puede estar generando algunas críticas falsas, aunque es difícil decir con certeza”, dice el informe.

Aunque Operai cerró la clave API del actor malo, que el bot existe en absoluto y fue decenas exitosas de miles de veces apunta a un futuro sombrío. Ai Slop es un Ataque de la fuerza bruta a los algoritmos Eso está llenando todos nuestros feeds con veneno generado por la ametralladora. Ahora los delincuentes han utilizado un método similar para ejecutar una estafa SEO. Funcionó, por un tiempo.

Quien lo construyó probablemente volverá con algo más. “Esperamos que esta campaña continúe evolucionando a medida que los proveedores de alojamiento en el sitio web adaptan las defensas para disuadir el spam”, dijo Sentinelone en su informe.

El miércoles, el presidente Trump firmado una orden ejecutiva que le dijeron a las agencias respectivas que revocen cualquier autorización de seguridad en poder de Chris Krebs, el director de inteligencia y política pública de Sentinelone, y otros en la empresa. Mientras que él era el jefe de una parte de DHS centrada en la ciberseguridad, Krebs dijo que Biden ganó las elecciones de 2020, yendo en contra de las falsas afirmaciones de Trump que las elecciones fueron robadas.

“Somos una empresa de ciberseguridad: nuestra misión es defender a los clientes, empresas y gobiernos contra las amenazas cibernéticas al aprovechar la inteligencia artificial más avanzada. Vemos a la Casa Blanca como un colaborador crucial en esa misión, y continuaremos apoyando a una América fuerte en un momento de mayores amenazas geopolíticas”, “. Sentinelone dijo en un comunicado. “Cooperaremos activamente en cualquier revisión de las autorizaciones de seguridad en poder de cualquiera de nuestro personal, actualmente menos de 10 empleados en general y solo cuando requeriran los procesos y procedimientos gubernamentales existentes para asegurar los sistemas gubernamentales. En consecuencia, no esperamos que esto afecte materialmente nuestro negocio de manera”.

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La coalición insta a la fiscal general de California a detener la reestructuración con fines de lucro de Openai

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Una coalición de organizaciones sin fines de lucro, fundaciones y grupos laborales de California está planteando preocupaciones sobre el fabricante de chatgpt Openai, instando al fiscal general del estado a detener los planes de la startup de inteligencia artificial de reestructurarse como una empresa con fines de lucro.

Más de 50 organizaciones, dirigidas por LatinoProsperity y la Fundación San Francisco, firmaron una petición que fue enviada a Atty. La oficina del general Rob Bonta el miércoles, solicitando que investigue la compañía liderada por Sam Altman.

“Operai comenzó su trabajo con el objetivo de desarrollar la IA para beneficiar a la humanidad en su conjunto, pero su intento actual de alterar su estructura corporativa revela su nuevo objetivo: proporcionar los beneficios de la IA, el potencial de ganancias y control incalculables sobre lo que puede convertirse en poderosas tecnologías de alteración mundial, a un puñado de inversores corporativos y empleados de alto nivel”, dijo la petición.

Operai, con sede en San Francisco, comenzó como una organización sin fines de lucro en 2015 y luego lanzó una subsidiaria con fines de lucro para supervisar sus operaciones comerciales. Actualmente, el tablero de la organización sin fines de lucro supervisa esa subsidiaria, que desarrolla productos y servicios, incluidos ChatGPT y la herramienta de texto a video Sora.

Pero a medida que la competencia entre las compañías de IA se calentó, OpenAi dijo que necesitaba cambiar su estructura comercial para recaudar más dinero. En diciembre, Openai dijo que exploraría la transición de su subsidiaria comercial a una corporación de beneficios público, un tipo de negocio con fines de lucro donde la organización sin fines de lucro de OpenAI tendría una participación de la propiedad, pero ya no la controlaría.

Cuando Operai comenzó como un laboratorio de investigación sin fines de lucro, no había planes para un producto, solo planes para publicar trabajos de investigación, dijo Altman a Newsletter Stratechery en marzo.

Con el tiempo, Operai se ha convertido en un líder en el espacio de IA, con 500 millones de personas que usan ChatGPT semanalmente. Si pudiera regresar, Altman dijo que habría establecido la compañía de manera diferente.

“Sabíamos que escalar computadoras iba a ser importantes, pero aún así subestimamos cuánto necesitábamos para escalarlas”, dijo Altman en una conversación con Harvard Business School.

Otras nuevas empresas de IA, incluidas Anthrope y XAI, son corporaciones de beneficios públicos.

El cambio propuesto en la estructura de OpenAI levantó las cejas entre algunos líderes sin fines de lucro. La petición era dudosa de que los activos caritativos de OpenAI estuvieran protegidos, acusados ​​OpenAi de no cumplir con las reglas sin fines de lucro y expresar su preocupación de que otras nuevas empresas usarían una estructura sin fines de lucro “para crear posibilidades aceleradas y amplificadas para beneficios financieros individuales”.

La junta sin fines de lucro de OpenAI pasó por una gran sacudida en 2023. La junta votó para despedir a Altman por presunta falta de franqueza consistente en sus comunicaciones con los miembros de la junta. Más tarde fue reinstalado cinco días después y la junta fue reestructurada, con varios miembros de la junta opositores que se fueron.

Este mes, Openai dijo que completó una ronda de financiación de $ 40 mil millones dirigida por SoftBank, lo que eleva su valoración a $ 300 mil millones. Como parte del acuerdo, SoftBank puede reducir su inversión si OpenAI no cambia su estructura corporativa para fin de año.

A diferencia de las empresas con fines de lucro, las organizaciones sin fines de lucro están limitadas en cómo se utilizan los fondos recaudados.

“No pueden vender acciones u ofrecer devoluciones”, dijo Neil Elan, socio del bufete de abogados Stubbs, Alderton y Markiles LLP. “La equidad es lo que impulsa muchos de estos modelos de alta valoración. También es difícil competir completamente con Meta, Microsoft y Google, que tienen acceso a muchos más recursos … sin fondos comparables”.

Operai ahora se ubica como la segunda compañía privada más valiosa, vinculada con la empresa matriz de Tiktok, según la firma de investigación CB Insights. La firma privada con la mayor valoración es SpaceX de Elon Musk con $ 350 mil millones.

“Este es un tipo de conversión sin precedentes en términos de su tamaño y solo queremos asegurarnos de que el Fiscal General realmente ejerce sus poderes para proteger esos activos de caridad”, dijo Orson Aguilar, CEO y presidente fundador de LatinoProsperity, una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en LA que se enfoca en avanzar en las políticas que construyen la wealth en la comunidad latina.

Algunos líderes sin fines de lucro dijeron que lo que está sucediendo con OpenAI les recuerda la transición que los proveedores de atención médica sin fines de lucro hicieron a las fines de lucro en la década de 1990. Los líderes gubernamentales intervinieron para ayudar a regular ese proceso.

LatinoProsperity, la Fundación San Francisco y otras organizaciones sin fines de lucro plantearon preocupaciones por primera vez al Fiscal General en enero.

Bonta ha buscado más información sobre la reestructuración de Openai, y su fiscal general adjunto se acercó a la startup de IA y solicitó que proporcione más detalles. A principios de este año, la oficina de Bonta le dijo a los medios de comunicación Calmatters que es una investigación en curso y que el departamento “se compromete a proteger los activos caritativos para su propósito previsto y se toma en serio esta responsabilidad”.

Aguilar dice que “no ha habido ninguna acción significativa”.

Algunos de los competidores de Openai se han opuesto a los planes de la compañía. El año pasado, Meta escribió al Fiscal General. Musk, cofundador de OpenAi que ahora dirige al rival Xai, demandó a OpenAi, buscando evitar que Operai cambie su estructura corporativa.

Nathanael Fast, director del Centro Neely para el Liderazgo ético y la toma de decisiones en la USC Marshall School of Business, cree que OpenAi podrá avanzar con sus planes a pesar de la oposición.

“La gran pregunta es, ¿qué sucederá con los valores que tienen una vez que todo el polvo se asienta y se convierten en una corporación que compite con otras corporaciones con fines de lucro?” Dijo Fast. “¿Tendrán valores únicos a los que se mantienen desde sus primeros días como una organización sin fines de lucro? ¿O se verán como cualquier otra compañía orientada a las ganancias?”

2025 Los Angeles Times. Distribuido por Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Citación: La coalición insta al Fiscal General de California a detener la reestructuración de la beneficio de Openai (2025, 10 de abril) Recuperado el 10 de abril de 2025 de https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-coalition-urges-california-attorney-general.html

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