On 23 January, OpenAI showed off its “Operator,” an AI agent that can travel the web and handle the details of routine tasks for you, such as making a restaurant reservation on the Open Table website or ordering groceries through Instacart.
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OPENAI UNVEILS PLATFORM DESIGNED TO EXTEND HUMAN LIFE
OpenAI has collaborated with start-up Retro Biosciences to create the GPT-4b micro, an AI that will help researchers re-engineer proteins to improve stem cell production.
OPENAI, ORACLE, SOFTBANK FORM AI JOINT VENTURE
Three key players in AI have come together in “Stargate,” a joint venture that will pool at least $100 million to build U.S. data centers and the energy infrastructure to power them.
CHINA’S DEEPSEEK MAKES CLAIMS THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE AI MARKET
Chinese start-up DeepSeek is offering a free AI assistant that it claims to have trained for $6 million instead of the $100-million-plus OpenAI and other Western developers have spent to create their models.
U.S. BLACKLISTS CHINA’S “OPENAI”
The U.S. government has listed Zhipu, China’s most prominent developer of large language AI models, among the Chinese companies U.S. firms are forbidden to do business with. Several of Zhipu’s affiliated companies also made the list.
OPENAI RELEASES ITS LATEST “REASONING” MODEL FOR PUBLIC TESTING
OpenAI has quickly followed its o1 “reasoning” AI, released in September, with the o3 and o3-mini versions that can “do increasingly complex tasks that require a lot of reasoning,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a live-streamed announcement.
AI INVESTORS AND ADOPTERS FEAR BECOMING “ROADKILL”
Osborne. SAI. Tandy. Computer brands that made a splash in their day but now are a spot on the road of tech history.
SOFTBANK TEASES $100 MILLION INVESTMENT IN U.S. AI BY 2029
Softbank, Japan’s venture capital colossus, has slated a $100-million investment in the U.S. AI industry on hopes that the incoming Trump administration will accelerate the industry’s growth and dissemination.
OPENAI WILL BECOME A PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
On 27 December, OpenAI announced that it will transform its for-profit subsidiary into a public benefit corporation.
OPENAI PARTNERS WITH DEFENSE CONTRACTOR
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT that launched the current Age of AI, has signed a contract with Anduril Industries, a military industry startup specializing in robotic and autonomous systems.