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SIMPPLE Unveils Gemini: Revolutionary 3-in-1 Robot for Security, Concierge & Cleaning Services
SIMPPLE (NASDAQ: SPPL) released a shareholder letter highlighting its achievements in 2024 and outlook for 2025. The company made significant progress in robotics, launching Gemini, the world’s first multifunctional robot with security surveillance, digital concierge, and cleaning capabilities. SIMPPLE expanded internationally, establishing presence in Australia and forming distribution partnerships across multiple countries.
Key developments include the completion of SIMPPLE A.I. pilot trials, enhancement of facility management solutions, and a joint venture with Evolve Consulting ApS for ESG audit capabilities. The company regained Nasdaq compliance in December 2024 and plans to relocate to a larger office by Q1 2025. The global service robotics market is projected to grow by 30.25% CAGR (2024-2028), reaching $90.4 billion, while the compliance management software market is expected to reach $75.8 billion by 2031.
SIMPPLE (NASDAQ: SPPL) ha pubblicato una lettera agli azionisti evidenziando i suoi risultati nel 2024 e le prospettive per il 2025. L’azienda ha fatto progressi significativi nella robotica, lanciando Gemini, il primo robot multifunzionale al mondo con capacità di sorveglianza, concierge digitale e pulizia. SIMPPLE si è espansa a livello internazionale, stabilendo una presenza in Australia e formando partnership commerciali in diversi paesi.
Sviluppi chiave includono il completamento di prove pilota su SIMPPLE A.I., il miglioramento delle soluzioni di gestione delle strutture e una joint venture con Evolve Consulting ApS per le capacità di audit ESG. L’azienda ha ripristinato la conformità al Nasdaq nel dicembre 2024 e prevede di trasferirsi in un ufficio più grande entro il primo trimestre del 2025. Si prevede che il mercato globale della robotica di servizio cresca del 30,25% CAGR (2024-2028), raggiungendo $90,4 miliardi, mentre si stima che il mercato del software di gestione della conformità raggiunga i $75,8 miliardi entro il 2031.
SIMPPLE (NASDAQ: SPPL) publicó una carta a los accionistas destacando sus logros en 2024 y perspectivas para 2025. La empresa ha realizado avances significativos en robótica, lanzando Gemini, el primer robot multifuncional del mundo con capacidades de vigilancia de seguridad, conserje digital y limpieza. SIMPPLE se ha expandido internacionalmente, estableciendo presencia en Australia y formando asociaciones de distribución en varios países.
Los desarrollos clave incluyen la finalización de ensayos piloto de SIMPPLE A.I., la mejora de las soluciones de gestión de instalaciones y una empresa conjunta con Evolve Consulting ApS para capacidades de auditoría ESG. La compañía recuperó la conformidad con Nasdaq en diciembre de 2024 y planea mudarse a una oficina más grande para el primer trimestre de 2025. Se proyecta que el mercado global de robótica de servicio crezca un 30,25% CAGR (2024-2028), alcanzando los $90.4 mil millones, mientras que se espera que el mercado de software de gestión de cumplimiento alcance los $75.8 mil millones para 2031.
SIMPPLE (NASDAQ: SPPL)는 2024년의 성과와 2025년 전망을 강조한 주주 서신을 발표했습니다. 이 회사는 로봇 공학에서 중요한 발전을 이루었으며, 보안 감시, 디지털 컨시어지, 청소 기능을 갖춘 세계 최초의 다기능 로봇인 Gemini를 출시했습니다. SIMPPLE는 호주에서의 존재를 확립하고 여러 국가와의 유통 파트너십을 형성하면서 국제적으로 확장했습니다.
주요 개발 사항으로는 SIMPPLE A.I. 파일럿 시험 완료, 시설 관리 솔루션 개선, ESG 감사 능력을 위한 Evolve Consulting ApS와의 공동 벤처가 포함됩니다. 이 회사는 2024년 12월 Nasdaq 규정 준수를 회복했으며, 2025년 1분기까지 더 큰 사무실로 이전할 계획입니다. 글로벌 서비스 로봇 시장은 2024-2028년 동안 연평균 30.25% 성장할 것으로 예상되며, 904억 달러에 이를 것으로 보이며, 준수 관리 소프트웨어 시장은 2031년까지 758억 달러에 이를 것으로 예상됩니다.
SIMPPLE (NASDAQ: SPPL) a publié une lettre aux actionnaires mettant en avant ses réalisations en 2024 et ses perspectives pour 2025. L’entreprise a réalisé des progrès significatifs dans le domaine de la robotique, lançant Gemini, le premier robot multifonctionnel au monde doté de capacités de surveillance de sécurité, de concierge numérique et de nettoyage. SIMPPLE s’est internationalement développée, établissant une présence en Australie et formant des partenariats de distribution dans plusieurs pays.
Parmi les développements clés, on note l’achèvement des essais pilotes de SIMPPLE A.I., l’amélioration des solutions de gestion des installations et une coentreprise avec Evolve Consulting ApS pour des capacités d’audit ESG. L’entreprise a retrouvé la conformité à la Nasdaq en décembre 2024 et prévoit de déménager dans un bureau plus grand d’ici le premier trimestre 2025. Le marché mondial de la robotique de service devrait croître de 30,25 % CAGR (2024-2028), atteignant 90,4 milliards de dollars, tandis que le marché des logiciels de gestion de la conformité devrait atteindre 75,8 milliards de dollars d’ici 2031.
SIMPPLE (NASDAQ: SPPL) hat einen Aktionärsbrief veröffentlicht, der die Erfolge im Jahr 2024 und den Ausblick für 2025 hervorhebt. Das Unternehmen hat bedeutende Fortschritte in der Robotik gemacht und Gemini, den weltweit ersten multifunktionalen Roboter mit Sicherheitsüberwachung, digitalem Concierge und Reinigungsfunktionen, eingeführt. SIMPPLE hat international expandiert und eine Präsenz in Australien etabliert sowie Vertriebspartnerschaften in mehreren Ländern geknüpft.
Wichtige Entwicklungen umfassen den Abschluss der Pilotversuche von SIMPPLE A.I., die Verbesserung von Facility-Management-Lösungen und ein Joint Venture mit Evolve Consulting ApS für ESG-Audit-Fähigkeiten. Das Unternehmen hat im Dezember 2024 die Nasdaq-Compliance wiedererlangt und plant, bis zum ersten Quartal 2025 in ein größeres Büro umzuziehen. Der globale Markt für Servicerobotik wird voraussichtlich von 2024 bis 2028 mit einer CAGR von 30,25 % wachsen und 90,4 Milliarden Dollar erreichen, während der Markt für Compliance-Management-Software bis 2031 voraussichtlich 75,8 Milliarden Dollar erreichen wird.
Positive
- Launch of innovative Gemini multifunctional robot combining security, concierge, and cleaning capabilities
- Successful international expansion with new office in Australia and multiple distribution agreements
- Completion of SIMPPLE A.I. pilot trials with reputable building owners
- Strategic joint venture with Evolve Consulting for ESG audit capabilities
- Regained Nasdaq listing compliance in December 2024
- Patent award in Singapore for SIMPPLE A.I. process
Insights
The CEO letter reveals several critical strategic developments that position SIMPPLE for significant market expansion. The launch of Gemini, the world’s first multifunctional robot combining security, concierge and cleaning capabilities, represents a breakthrough in the
The strategic partnership with Evolve Consulting for ESG reporting capabilities taps into the compliance management software market, projected to reach
Several indicators point to improving financial health and market positioning. The company’s recent compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements strengthens their capital market standing. Their diversification strategy through new revenue streams – including ESG consulting, IP monetization and expanded geographical presence – reduces business risk and enhances growth potential.
The anticipated Q1 2025 revenue targets, supported by Singapore government incentives, suggest strong near-term financial performance. The investment in a larger office space indicates confidence in future growth trajectory. The expansion into high-value sectors like aviation, healthcare and education, combined with the growing global CAFM market potential of
The company’s strategic positioning aligns well with major market trends in facilities management technology. The focus on integrated solutions combining robotics, AI and ESG compliance addresses critical pain points in the industry. The partnership strategy, particularly in entering new markets through local distributors, reduces market entry risks while accelerating expansion.
The engagement of Korn Ferry for organizational restructuring demonstrates commitment to building robust operational capabilities. The development of open-API platforms and brand-agnostic solutions increases market adaptability and potential customer base. The timing of their ESG compliance platform launch coincides with increasing regulatory pressures and market demand for sustainability reporting tools.
Singapore, Jan. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SIMPPLE Ltd. (NASDAQ: SPPL) (“SIMPPLE” or “the Company”), a leading technology provider and innovator in the facilities management (FM) sector, today announced that Norman Schroeder, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, has issued the following Letter to Shareholders.
Dear Shareholders:
As we reflect and assess the year that has been, I would like to thank you for your continued confidence, and support throughout 2024, a transformative year of growth, delivering on key committed milestones and organizational change, subsequently laying the groundwork for 2025 and beyond. SIMPPLE remains focused on its commitment to deliver innovative product solutions and continued growth through sector diversification and its planned international expansion. This will be underpinned by the commercialization of SIMPPLE’s proprietary systems and patented robotics, innovative software solutions, and in-house developed A.I.-driven analytics.
Human Resource Strategy and Reorganization
As part of our ongoing commitment to establish SIMPPLE as an industry leader and partner of choice, we began the year with a strategic business-wide review and reshuffle of its leadership team. The Company made several new executive appointments, while repositioning key existing management roles to maintain organizational continuity, and retention of critical competencies.
Furthermore, the Company engaged global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry to conduct a comprehensive business-wide review, benchmarking SIMPPLE’s organizational structure, processes, employee grading and development, and remuneration standards against industry leading organisations. This initiative has positioned SIMPPLE’s leadership team to meet the demands of its global expansion and strategic objectives for continued growth.
Product Development and Commercialization
Robotics Automation
SIMPPLE made significant strides in the robotics division with the major sale and deployment of autonomous cleaning robots in railway stations and airport terminals, amongst others, as reported last year. Our range of SIMPPLE Robotics was also recognized at overseas trade shows, winning the ISSA Excellence Award (Innovation) for large equipment in Australia and CleanNZ Service & Technology Award in New Zealand. These contracts and award wins validate the quality, innovation, and effectiveness of our products in the eyes of industry professionals and customers.
In mid-2024, SIMPPLE also launched the world’s first multifunctional robot with security surveillance, digital concierge, and cleaning capabilities, named Gemini, at an international event CleanEnviro Summit held in Singapore. Built with the intention of retrofitting traditional cleaning robots with A.I. video analytics functionalities, this groundbreaking innovation enables service robotics to be more intelligent and fit-for-purpose for integrated facility operations. Gemini robots are deployed in commercial real estate premises and residential condominiums and are expected to proliferate as integrated facility services operators continue to look for multifunctional capabilities and artificial intelligence (A.I.) to drive greater accountability in operations and cost down.
This optimism is supported by a May 2024 report by Technavio, which estimated that the global service robotics market will grow by a CAGR of
Software and Artificial Intelligence
SIMPPLE continues to expand its capabilities beyond its core cleaning and security technologies, with a strategic focus on becoming a comprehensive end-to-end solution provider in facilities management. In 2024, the Company took steps to enhance our solution suite to include energy, lighting, water and asset monitoring and management, which help clients reduce their environmental impact and operational costs. Additionally, SIMPPLE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a leading pest management technology provider, enabling us to offer a holistic technology package to facility operators and building owners. This collaboration reinforces our commitment as a brand agnostic open-API platform and enhances our ability to address the diverse needs of our clients, ensuring a seamless, efficient, and sustainable approach to managing facilities.
In the second half of 2024, the Company has successfully completed pilot trials with reputable building owners in Singapore with the development and mobilization of SIMPPLE A.I., our next-generation Autonomic Intelligence Engine (A.I.E.), leveraging technologies such as computer vision analytics, system integration capabilities across different brands of autonomous robots with CCTV camera systems, lifts, and doors. This initiative and development are pivotal validations to the future of integrated facility operations with technology assets. Building owners and building service contractors can collectively achieve quicker response time to incidents, improved workforce, and cost efficiency. I hope to share positive developments in SIMPPLE A.I. offerings in this new year.
We expect that 2025 will see our A.I.E.-directed software and computer vision analytics platform gain significant adoption in the facilities management sector. In fact, many credible research reports, including one published in April 2024 by Future Market Insights, underscore the potential of computer-aided facility management (CAFM) systems, collectively expected to help elevate this market sector to a valuation of
Strategic Partnerships and International Expansion
As part of our ambitious international expansion strategy, SIMPPLE has successfully extended its presence beyond Singapore, establishing an office in Australia to serve the broader Australia and New Zealand region. On top of existing contracts in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Qatar, SIMPPLE has expanded into numerous other countries in Southeast Asia region and the rest of the world in 2024. These new ventures reflect our growing footprint and the increasing demand for our technologies and services worldwide. We have entered into distribution agreements with partners based in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Thailand, and Vietnam, further strengthening our global reach. With our sights set on Europe and the USA in the new year 2025, we are currently engaged in partnership discussions in these regions, and we look forward to sharing more details later this year. This continued global expansion underscores our commitment to becoming a leading international technology provider in facilities management.
Diversified Revenue Streams with ESG and Intellectual Property
To further strengthen SIMPPLE’s proposition as an end-to-end integrated software platform for building owners, the Company has actively taken steps to diversify its revenue streams and strengthen its long-term growth prospects. Late 2024, SIMPPLE signed a joint venture agreement with Evolve Consulting ApS, enabling both parties to provide Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) audit and reporting capabilities for the built environment stakeholders in response to the increasing demand for sustainability-focused reporting requirements. Branded SIMPPLE-Evolve, the platform tool automates compliance assessments and ensures adherence to latest ESG standards in Europe and emerging global ESG frameworks.
According to a May 2024 research report by Verified Market Research, the global compliance management software market is projected to grow at CAGR
In addition to the earlier mentioned SIMPPLE A.I. project, we are also pleased to announce that we have been building our intellectual property (IP) portfolio, with an award of a patent in Singapore for the SIMPPLE A.I. process. As we culminate more trademarks, patents, and design applications globally, we plan to leverage these IP assets to create new revenue opportunities through strategic monetization, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of innovation in our industry.
Office Expansion and Relocation Expected in 2025
Aligned with the broader expansion efforts, SIMPPLE has taken significant steps to look for a larger and more productive office space to support its strategic vision for growth. This move, which is expected to be completed by Q1 2025, positions the Company to better leverage synergies with key players in the built environment ecosystem. This new premise will allow us to increase brand visibility to both Singapore government and foreign delegates, explore potential partnership opportunities with complementary technology solution providers to further enhance our service offerings, and enable us to pilot and scale innovative technologies in a larger built setting. This transition will certainly serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration, supporting our efforts to drive operational excellence and growth in the years ahead.
Outlook for 2025
Looking ahead to 2025, SIMPPLE is poised for continued growth and expansion. With a strengthened leadership team, diversified service offerings, and a growing international presence, we are well-positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities across the world. Our focus will remain on enhancing operational efficiency, driving sales and innovation, and deepening partnerships within the built environment ecosystem.
In December 2024 SIMPPLE successfully regained compliance with Nasdaq listing requirements, a key milestone that reinforces our financial stability and commitment to governance excellence. We are confident in our ability to surpass our revenue targets in Q1 2025, accompanied by strong financial incentives from the Singapore government to drive robotics and automation in various industries.
With momentum leading into 2025, we remain steadfast and committed to advancing our end-to-end fit-for-purpose solutions agenda with anticipation of a great 2025 ahead of us, with more significant milestones and news to be shared. 2025 will be a year where SIMPPLE will see our strategic investments in key areas, such as Robotics and innovative sensing technologies, advanced A.I. automation, and ESG compliance and reporting, come to fruition and accelerate. We will continue to leverage our strengths in key industries like aviation, healthcare, and higher education institutions to bring best-in-class solutions to deliver long-term value to our clients.
To our shareholders, thank you once again for your trust and confidence as we continue to execute our vision. I look forward to keeping you informed throughout 2025, while remaining focused on building a company that delivers meaningful solutions, sustainable growth, and shareholder value well into the future.
Sincerely,
Norman Schroeder
Chief Executive Officer
SIMPPLE Ltd.
About SIMPPLE LTD.
Headquartered in Singapore, SIMPPLE LTD. is an advanced technology solution provider in the emerging PropTech space, focused on helping facilities owners and managers manage facilities autonomously. Founded in 2016, the Company has a strong foothold in the Singapore facilities management market, serving over 60 clients in both the public and private sectors and extending out of Singapore into Australia and the Middle East. The Company has developed its proprietary SIMPPLE Ecosystem, to create an automated workforce management tool for building maintenance, surveillance and cleaning comprised of a mix of software and hardware solutions such as robotics (both cleaning and security) and Internet-of-Things (“IoT”) devices.
For more information on SIMPPLE, please visit: https://www.simpple.ai/
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FAQ
What is SIMPPLE’s (SPPL) new Gemini robot and what are its capabilities?
Gemini is SIMPPLE’s multifunctional robot launched in mid-2024, featuring security surveillance, digital concierge, and cleaning capabilities. It’s designed to retrofit traditional cleaning robots with A.I. video analytics and is currently deployed in commercial real estate and residential condominiums.
How is SIMPPLE (SPPL) expanding internationally in 2024-2025?
SIMPPLE established an office in Australia, serving Australia and New Zealand, and entered distribution agreements with partners in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company plans to expand into Europe and USA in 2025.
What is the significance of SIMPPLE’s (SPPL) joint venture with Evolve Consulting?
The joint venture, branded as SIMPPLE-Evolve, provides ESG audit and reporting capabilities for built environment stakeholders, automating compliance assessments and ensuring adherence to latest ESG standards in Europe and global frameworks.
When will SIMPPLE (SPPL) complete its office relocation?
SIMPPLE expects to complete its office relocation by Q1 2025, moving to a larger space to support its strategic growth vision and enhance collaboration opportunities.
What are the market growth projections for SIMPPLE’s (SPPL) key business segments?
The global service robotics market is projected to grow at 30.25% CAGR, reaching $90.4 billion by 2028, while the compliance management software market is expected to grow at 10.9% CAGR, reaching $75.8 billion by 2031.
No esperaba que un producto Chatgpt se volviera viral a fines de marzo, pero aquí estamos. Openai sorprendió al mundo con el lanzamiento de GPT-4O Image Generation, un nuevo modelo de IA que está construido en ChatGPT, brindando a los usuarios características de generación de imágenes increíblemente avanzadas.
Envíe un mensaje detallado a la IA, y ChatGPT dibujará inmediatamente una imagen alucinante basada en sus instrucciones. Las imágenes pueden contener texto legible, el primero para la generación de imágenes ChatGPT, lo cual es impresionante. Además, la herramienta de generación de imágenes AI puede usar fotos reales para editarlas como desee.
El problema es que la nueva herramienta de generación de imágenes de Openai puso a disposición de los usuarios premium sin fuertes barandillas de seguridad. La red se inundó inmediatamente con defagos de Chatgpt que presentan celebridades y un montón de dibujos de IA inspirados en el estudio de Ghibli.
ChatGPT ni siquiera coloca una marca de agua en sus creaciones para informar a los espectadores que son imágenes generadas por IA. Los metadatos no son una función de seguridad lo suficientemente buena, no cuando alguien puede crear estas falsificaciones. Géminis podría eliminar las marcas de agua de las creaciones con derechos de autor, pero al menos coloca su propia marca de agua en los resultados.
Lo que es peor es la respuesta sorda de Sam Altman a todo esto. El CEO de Operai está adoptando todos los elogios que recibió la herramienta ChatGpt AI, lo que ciertamente se merece, sin comprometerse con mejores salvaguardas.
Aquí está el mensaje que Altman publicó en X poco después del lanzamiento de la generación de imágenes 4O:
> Sé yo
> Muela durante una década tratando de ayudar a hacer la superinteligencia para curar el cáncer
o lo que sea
> En su mayoría a nadie le importa durante los primeros 7.5 años, luego durante 2.5 años a todos
odios
tu por todo
> Despierta un día a cientos de mensajes: “Mira, te convertí en un twink
estilo ghibli jaja “
El mensaje acompañó un cambio de imagen de perfil para el perfil X de Altman, como se ve en la siguiente imagen. Altman reemplazó su foto con una versión de estilo Gibli creada por Chatgpt de sí mismo.
Todo es divertido y juegos en este momento porque todavía tenemos que ver abusos reales. Pero no se equivoquen, las personas abusarán de la herramienta para crear defensores profundos que puedan engañar a las personas desprevenidas, especialmente a las personas menos expertas en tecnología y aquellas en países donde la IA podría no ser utilizada tan ampliamente.
No es solo Chatgpt lo que sufre de este problema de seguridad. Google tiene sus propias herramientas avanzadas de generación de imágenes para Gemini que también se pueden usar para crear falsificaciones con facilidad.
Pero Operai deliberadamente eligió no imponer reglas más estrictas. En su anuncio inicial, Openai tiene un capítulo sobre seguridad que aborda ciertos tipos de abuso, y eso es encomiable. Las imágenes de IA vienen con metadatos C2PA que identifican imágenes creadas con IA, pero todo lo que necesita hacer es tomar una captura de pantalla de esa imagen, y eliminará esos datos.
Tome la imagen superior en esta publicación anterior; Es una captura de pantalla de una imagen de estilo ghibli generada por ChatGPT que la IA hizo con el siguiente mensaje:
Hazme una imagen de estilo Gibli de estudio basada en lo que acabamos de hablar. Lo quiero en una relación de aspecto de 16:10, tienes libertad para imaginarme a mí y a ti mismo
Además, ChatGPT bloquea las solicitudes específicas, “como materiales de abuso sexual infantil y defectos sexuales”. Operai también dijo: “Cuando las imágenes de personas reales están en contexto, hemos aumentado restricciones con respecto a qué tipo de imágenes se pueden crear, con salvaguardas particularmente robustas sobre la desnudez y la violencia gráfica”. Pero esto no cambia el hecho de que cualquier usuario de ChatGPT ahora puede crear defensores profundos que puedan ser abusados. No tienen que ser sexuales para ser potencialmente peligrosos.
Operai podría hacer más aquí, pero elige no hacerlo a pesar de saber completamente que algunas de las imágenes que provienen de ChatGPT se verán como fotos reales. Esto es lo que dijo Altman en X después de que se lanzó la herramienta:
Estamos lanzando una cosa nueva hoy: ¡las imágenes en ChatGPT!
Dos cosas que decir al respecto:
1. Es una tecnología/producto increíble. Recuerdo haber visto algunas de las primeras imágenes salir de este modelo y pasar un mal rato las que realmente las hará. Creemos que a la gente le encantará, y estamos emocionados de ver la creatividad resultante.
Felicidades a nuestros investigadores @gabeegoooh @prafdhar @ajabri @eliza_luth @kenjihata @dmed256
2. Esto representa una nueva marca de alta agua para nosotros al permitir la libertad creativa. La gente va a crear algunas cosas realmente increíbles y algunas cosas que pueden ofender a las personas; Lo que nos gustaría apuntar es que la herramienta no crea cosas ofensivas a menos que lo desee, en cuyo caso lo hace. Mientras hablamos en nuestra especificación de modelo, creemos que poner esta libertad y control intelectuales en manos de los usuarios es lo correcto, pero observaremos cómo va y escuchar a la sociedad. Creemos que respetar los límites muy amplios que la sociedad eventualmente elegirá establecer para AI es lo correcto, y cada vez más importante a medida que nos acercamos a AGI. Gracias de antemano por la comprensión mientras trabajamos en esto.
También está el elefante obvio en la habitación que Altman ni siquiera aborda. Los poderes de generación de imágenes de ChatGPT acaban de hacer que los diseñadores gráficos sean obsoletos. O cerca de él. Esto siempre iba a suceder, pero las empresas de IA como OpenAi deberían al menos tratar de fingir que se preocupan por el impacto de sus productos en los trabajos y la vida tal como lo conocemos.
Volviendo a todas las imágenes de ChatGPT que veo en las redes sociales, también anotaré el desprecio de OpenAI por los derechos de autor aquí. Chatgpt no dibujará personajes que pertenecen a Studio Ghibli, claro, pero copiará el estilo y lo adaptará a lo que desee.
No es de extrañar que la reacción de Hayao Miyazaki al usar IA para la animación haya resurgido en línea esta semana. El cofundador de Studio Gibli dijo que la animación generada por IA era un “insulto a la vida en sí” cuando se le presentó una herramienta interna con AI hace unos años que podía crear dibujos en estilo Gibli. Estoy seguro de que no está muy feliz de ver que ChatGPT copia el estilo de su empresa tan fácilmente.
Eso no quiere decir que la IA no pueda usarse con fines creativos o que la nueva tecnología de generación de imágenes de ChatGPT no sea impresionante, porque lo es.
Además, en defensa de Chatgpt, vi protecciones de seguridad en mis pruebas, incluidas las relacionadas con los derechos de autor. Pero esto no cambia el hecho de que OpenAi hace que sea increíblemente fácil para cualquiera usar Deepfakes que parezcan casi indistinguibles de las fotos reales, y al CEO de la compañía no parece importarle.
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 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 OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit.
In 2025, OpenAI is battling the perception that it’s 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, 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
March 2025
ChatGPT has upgraded its image-generation feature
OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPT’s 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, OpenAI’s AI video-generation tool, for subscribers of the company’s Pro plan, priced at $200 a month, and will be available soon to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and developers using the company’s API service. The company’s 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 updates
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, will lead the company’s 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.
OpenAI’s AI voice assistant now has advanced feature
OpenAI has updated its AI voice assistant with improved chatting capabilities, according to a video posted on Monday (March 24) to the company’s 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 ChatGPT’s 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, Meta in talks with Reliance in India
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 OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Reliance has proposed selling OpenAI’s 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 chatbot’s defamatory hallucinations
Noyb, 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 Söderberg, data protection lawyer at Noyb, in a statement. “If it’s 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 isn’t enough. You can’t 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 models
OpenAI 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 o1
OpenAI 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.” It’s 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 OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 for input and 10 times the price of regular o1.
OpenAI research lead Noam Brown thinks AI “reasoning” models could’ve arrived decades ago
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 that’s “really good” at creative writing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, in a post on X, that the company has trained a “new model” that’s “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. And it turns out that it might not be that great at creative writing at all.
we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right.
PROMPT:
Please write a metafictional literary short story…
— Sam Altman (@sama) March 11, 2025
OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents
OpenAI rolled out new tools designed to help developers and businesses build AI agents — automated systems that can independently accomplish tasks — using the company’s own AI models and frameworks. The tools are part of OpenAI’s 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 OpenAI’s Operator product. The Responses API effectively replaces OpenAI’s 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 ‘agents’
OpenAI 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. It’s unclear when these agentic tools might launch or which customers will be eligible to buy them.
ChatGPT can directly edit your code
The 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.
ChatGPT’s weekly active users doubled in less than 6 months, thanks to new releases
According to a new report from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI’s 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. ChatGPT’s 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 model’s launch.
February 2025
OpenAI cancels its o3 AI model in favor of a ‘unified’ next-gen release
OpenAI 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 [OpenAI’s] 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 assumed
A commonly cited stat is that ChatGPT requires around 3 watt-hours of power to answer a single question. Using OpenAI’s 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 doesn’t consider the additional energy costs incurred by ChatGPT with features like image generation or input processing.
OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process
In 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 model’s “reasoning” steps and how it arrived at answers to questions.
You can now use ChatGPT web search without logging in
OpenAI 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 chatbot’s 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 research’
OpenAI announced a new AI “agent” called deep research that’s designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT. OpenAI says the “agent” is intended for instances where you don’t just want a quick answer or summary, but instead need to assiduously consider information from multiple websites and other sources.
February 2025
OpenAI used a subreddit to test AI persuasion
OpenAI 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 user’s 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’ model
OpenAI launched a new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the newest in the company’s 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.”
ChatGPT’s mobile users are 85% male, report says
A new report from app analytics firm Appfigures found that over half of ChatGPT’s 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 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.
starting tomorrow at 10 am pacific, we are doing 12 days of openai.
each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo, some big ones and some stocking stuffers.
we’ve got some great stuff to share, hope you enjoy! merry christmas.
— Sam Altman (@sama) December 4, 2024
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.
GPT-4o got an update
The model’s creative writing ability has leveled up–more natural, engaging, and tailored writing to improve relevance & readability.
It’s also better at working with uploaded files, providing deeper insights & more thorough responses.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) November 20, 2024
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.
Rolling out to ChatGPT paid users this week: Advanced Voice Mode on web!
We launched Advanced Voice Mode in our iOS and Android apps in September, and just recently brought them to our desktop apps (https://t.co/vVRYHXsbPD)—now we’re excited to add web to the mix. This means… pic.twitter.com/HtG5Km2OGh
— Kevin Weil
(@kevinweil) November 19, 2024
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.
After working at OpenAI for almost 7 years, I decide to leave. I learned so much and now I’m ready for a reset and something new.
Here is the note I just shared with the team.
pic.twitter.com/2j9K3oBhPC
— Lilian Weng (@lilianweng) November 8, 2024
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
U.S. newspapers file copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft
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.
ChatGPT can now read responses to you.
On iOS or Android, tap and hold the message and then tap “Read Aloud”. We’ve also started rolling on web – click the “Read Aloud” button below the message. pic.twitter.com/KevIkgAFbG
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 4, 2024
January 2025
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.
We’re testing ChatGPT’s ability to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful.
This feature is being rolled out to a small portion of Free and Plus users, and it’s easy to turn on or off. https://t.co/1Tv355oa7V pic.twitter.com/BsFinBSTbs
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 13, 2024
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.”
Use temporary chat for conversations in which you don’t want to use memory or appear in history. pic.twitter.com/H1U82zoXyC
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 13, 2024
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.
You can now bring GPTs into any conversation in ChatGPT – simply type @ and select the GPT.
This allows you to add relevant GPTs with the full context of the conversation. pic.twitter.com/Pjn5uIy9NF
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 30, 2024
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.
Expanding the platform for @OpenAIDevs: new generation of embedding models, updated GPT-4 Turbo, and lower pricing on GPT-3.5 Turbo. https://t.co/7wzCLwB1ax
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 25, 2024
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.
Snapshot of how we’re preparing for 2024’s worldwide elections:
• Working to prevent abuse, including misleading deepfakes
• Providing transparency on AI-generated content
• Improving access to authoritative voting informationhttps://t.co/qsysYy5l0L— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 15, 2024
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.
the GPT store is live!https://t.co/AKg1mjlvo2
fun speculation last night about which GPTs will be doing the best by the end of today.
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 10, 2024
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.”
We build AI to empower people, including journalists.
Our position on the @nytimes lawsuit:
• Training is fair use, but we provide an opt-out
• “Regurgitation” is a rare bug we’re driving to zero
• The New York Times is not telling the full storyhttps://t.co/S6fSaDsfKb— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 8, 2024
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.
GPT Store launching next week – OpenAI pic.twitter.com/I6mkZKtgZG
— Manish Singh (@refsrc) January 4, 2024
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.
Géminis 2.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro es el último modelo de IA multimodal a gran escala de Google Deepmind, diseñado con capacidades incorporadas de “pensamiento” para manejar tareas complejas. Como el primer lanzamiento de la serie Gemini 2.5, el modelo Pro lidera muchos puntos de referencia de la industria mediante márgenes significativos y demuestra fuertes capacidades de razonamiento y codificación.
A diferencia de las generaciones anteriores de IA que simplemente predijeron texto basado en patrones, Gemini 2.5 Pro está diseñado para analizar la información profundamente, sacar conclusiones lógicas, incorporar un contexto matizado y tomar decisiones informadas antes de responder. Esta evolución en las posiciones de diseño Gemini 2.5 Pro como un modelo de propósito general altamente avanzado que es adecuado para aplicaciones empresariales que exigen precisión y adaptabilidad.
En el núcleo de las características avanzadas de Gemini 2.5 Pro hay un cambio fundamental en su diseño arquitectónico, avanzando hacia lo que Google se refiere como un “modelo de pensamiento”. Esto indica una ruptura de los modelos de IA tradicionales centrados principalmente en la predicción y la clasificación hacia un sistema que se involucra en la deliberación y el razonamiento internos antes de generar una respuesta. Este enfoque intencional conduce a un rendimiento y una precisión significativamente mejorados, especialmente cuando se abordan tareas complejas que requieren más que un mero reconocimiento de patrones.
El rendimiento mejorado de Gemini Pro 2.5 no se debe únicamente al aumento de la potencia computacional o el tamaño del modelo. Más bien, surge de una combinación sofisticada de un modelo base subyacente muy mejorado, aprovechando los avances en la arquitectura de la red neuronal, los conjuntos de datos de entrenamiento extensos y las metodologías refinadas posteriores a la capacitación. Estas técnicas posteriores a la capacitación, que con frecuencia implican el aprendizaje de refuerzo, son cruciales para ajustar el comportamiento del modelo, asegurando una mayor calidad y resultados más relevantes. Esta evolución arquitectónica permite que el modelo realice análisis de información más exhaustivos, lleguen a conclusiones más precisas y lógicas, comprenda mejor e incorpore matices contextuales y, en última instancia, tome decisiones más informadas y confiables, capacidad que son esenciales para aplicaciones comerciales estratégicas.
Más allá del razonamiento abstracto, Gemini 2.5 Pro ofrece un conjunto de capacidades avanzadas que son directamente relevantes para las necesidades empresariales. Lo más destacado es su mejora significativa en el dominio de la codificación. Los ingenieros de Google informan que el rendimiento de la codificación experimentó un salto considerable de Gemini 2.0 a 2.5, con más mejoras en el horizonte. El modelo 2.5 Pro se destaca en la generación y el código de refinación, capaz de crear un software complejo, como una aplicación web interactiva funcional, desde un aviso de alto nivel. En una demostración, el modelo desarrolló un juego completo de “corredor interminable” en HTML/JS a partir de un mensaje de una sola línea, ilustrando su capacidad para administrar las tareas de codificación a nivel de proyecto de forma autónoma. Gemini 2.5 Pro también se destaca en una sólida transformación y edición de código, por lo que es valioso para tareas como refactorizar el código heredado o la traducción del código entre idiomas. En un punto de referencia de ingeniería de software estandarizado (verificado por el banco SWE), el modelo logró una puntuación alta (63.8%) utilizando una configuración de agente autónomo, lo que indica su fuerza para abordar los desafíos de codificación complejos de varios pasos. Para las empresas, esto significa que la IA puede funcionar no solo como un asistente de conversación sino también como una ayuda de codificación capaz o incluso un agente de software semiautónomo.
Géminis 2.5 Pro
Como parte del ecosistema de Géminis más amplio, Google también ha introducido TXGEMMA, un conjunto de modelos abiertos dirigidos a desafíos especializados de la industria. TXGEMMA es una colección de modelos derivados de la Serie Ligera de Gemma (versiones de código abierto de Gemini Technology) y adaptado específicamente para el desarrollo terapéutico de fármacos y biotecnología. Estos modelos están capacitados para comprender y predecir las propiedades de posibles medicamentos y terapias génicas, lo que ayuda a los investigadores a identificar candidatos prometedores e incluso pronosticar resultados de ensayos clínicos.
En esencia, TXGEMMA toma las técnicas de modelado y razonamiento del lenguaje central de Géminis y las aplica al dominio farmacéutico, donde puede examinar la literatura biomédica, los datos químicos y los resultados del ensayo para ayudar en las decisiones de I + D. El modelo de TXGEMMA más grande (con 27 mil millones de parámetros) ha demostrado el rendimiento a la par o excediendo modelos especializados en muchas tareas de descubrimiento de fármacos, todo mientras se conserva las habilidades generales de razonamiento. Para los líderes empresariales en atención médica y ciencias de la vida, TXGEMMA muestra la adaptabilidad de la arquitectura de Géminis a dominios misioneros críticos: ilustra cómo la IA de vanguardia puede acelerar flujos de trabajo altamente específicos como el descubrimiento de fármacos que tradicionalmente llevan años e incurrir en costos masivos.
Gemini 2.5 Pro representa un paso adelante significativo en el diseño del modelo de IA, combinando la potencia bruta con capacidades de razonamiento refinado que abordan directamente las tareas complejas del mundo real. Su arquitectura, con multimodalidad nativa y una longitud de contexto sin precedentes, permite a las empresas traer una variedad más rica de datos para tener problemas, extrayendo ideas que los modelos anteriores podrían haberse perdido. El fuerte desempeño del modelo en los puntos de referencia de codificación y razonamiento brinda la confianza de que puede manejar aplicaciones exigentes, desde la automatización de partes de la ingeniería de software hasta dar sentido a las amplias bases de conocimiento corporativo. Con el soporte de Google para la integración empresarial a través de plataformas en la nube y la aparición de ramas específicas de dominio como TXGEMMA, el ecosistema Gemini 2.5 Pro está listo para proporcionar la inteligencia general y las habilidades especializadas que buscan las empresas modernas. Para las CXO que planea la estrategia de IA de su empresa, Gemini 2.5 Pro ofrece una vista previa de cómo se pueden implementar sistemas de IA de próxima generación para impulsar la innovación y la ventaja competitiva, todos centrados en un razonamiento más profundo, un contexto más amplio y resultados tangibles.
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