Published on: 2025-04-22 18:25:33
Picture this: a social network populated mainly by AI bros. Sound like the place to hang? We ask because OpenAI has been secretly building its own social media platform, which The Verge reports is intended to resemble X-formerly-Twitter — the social media middleweight owned by CEO Sam Altman's arch-nemesis, Elon Musk. The project is still getting off the ground, but an internal prototype with a social media feed revolves around ChatGPT's new image generation capabilities, which you may be fami
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:29:00
Rumor mill: OpenAI is quietly developing a new social network reminiscent of Twitter, according to several individuals with direct knowledge of the project. These sources say that the initiative, still in its nascent stages, centers on a prototype that integrates ChatGPT's image generation capabilities into a social feed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly been soliciting feedback from select outsiders, though the company has yet to clarify whether the platform will launch as a standalone app
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 07:17:23
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in Vancouver last week. “I have never seen growth in any company, one that I’ve been involved with or not, like this,” Altman told TED head Chris Anderson during their
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 18:58:43
It looks like OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network, according to a report by The Verge . We don’t have many specifics, but we do know there’s an internal prototype that adds a social feed to ChatGPT’s image generation tool. It remains unclear if OpenAI will launch this social network as a standalone app or if it will be integrated within the ChatGPT app, which is what the prototype indicates. The report does suggest that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been asking for feedback about
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Them's fightin' words. Silent Riot A former OpenAI employee is joining Elon Musk's campaign against CEO Sam Altman — and he's got a lot to say about his former boss. After jumping ship to Anthropic, which was cofounded by former OpenAI-ers over AI safety and ethics concerns, researcher Todor Markov is now claiming in a new legal filing that his ex-boss is, essentially, a really bad dude. The root of Markov's complaint, as he explained in his portion of a lengthy amicus brief that also includ
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The big picture: If you're still dubious about the impact generative AI is having on the world, consider this: Open AI CEO Sam Altman recently suggested that ChatGPT's weekly active users have reached, or are very close to, one billion people. Altman said that user numbers had doubled in just a few weeks, thanks in no small part to the updated image generation feature and the incredibly popular Studio Ghibli imitations. Speaking onstage at TED on Friday, curator Chris Anderson asked Altman how
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In the wake of OpenAI releasing its new server-melting image generator that went viral for creating soulless simulacra of Studio Ghibli-style illustrations, CEO Sam Altman is slamming the haters — including, it seems, the man whose art he's cribbing. During an interview with tech founder and YouTuber Arun Mayya, Altman dismissed newly-resurfaced criticisms from Studio Ghibli cofounder Hayao Miyazaki, who in 2016 lambasted an AI-generated animation he was shown as "creepy" and "an insult to life
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It's been nearly 18 months since OpenAI Sam Altman was unceremoniously sacked by the firm before being summarily reinstated just a few days later — and a new book claims to have the tea behind the stunning coup. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book about Altman, Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey revealed, based on dozens of interviews with insiders, that the November 2023 episode jokingly referred to as the "turkey-shoot clusterf*ck" was ultimately caused by power struggles, politicki
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 02:49:20
As San Francisco’s hottest AI company continues to barrel towards ever growing valuations, its claims become more nebulous. Altman expects we may see “the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies” in 2025, and says his team is “now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.” A decade since it was founded, OpenAI has become synonymous with the future of AI, with the tech industry and beyond closely monitoring its next moves
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 19:03:24
In a series of posts on X on Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the popularity of the company’s new image-generation tool in ChatGPT will cause unspecified product delays. “We are getting things under control, but you should expect new releases from OpenAI to be delayed, stuff to break, and for service to sometimes be slow as we deal with capacity challenges,” Altman wrote. “Working as fast we can to really get stuff humming.” OpenAI’s new image-generation capability arrived with much fan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 21:53:00
OpenAI has made its ChatGPT 4o image-generator tool available to everyone. In a post on X on March 31, the company's CEO Sam Altman said the tool was, "now rolled out to all free users!" The image generator has been in the news recently as people have been using it to generate images in the style of Studio Ghibli animation. The rush to use the image-generation feature in ChatGPT prompted Altman to say, "our servers are melting" in a post. Altman said at the time that image generation would be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 02:53:55
OpenAI has made its ChatGPT 4o image-generator tool available to everyone. In a post on X on March 31, the company's CEO Sam Altman said the tool was, "now rolled out to all free users!" The image generator has been in the news recently as people have been using it to generate images in the style of Studio Ghibli animation. The rush to use the image-generation feature in ChatGPT prompted Altman to say, "our servers are melting" in a post. Altman said at the time that image generation would be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 19:18:00
The big picture: Only days ago we were reporting that ChatGPT's updated image generator was sparking a wave of Studio Ghibli-style recreations across social media. But the wave was just getting started and in mere days it hit the mainstream, becoming a full-blown fad. While CEO Sam Altman is celebrating the newfound attention, the massive growth in GPT's user base, and a fresh round of funding, the tool's explosive popularity is putting serious strain on OpenAI's infrastructure. Altman revealed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 11:13:14
OpenAI has been doubling its audience for ChatGPT at a rapid rate, and the addition of its latest image generation feature has increased the AI assistant's popularity. Today, CEO Sam Altman posted to X that the service "added one million users in the last hour," calling it a "biblical demand" for the image generation. the chatgpt launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i'd ever seen, and we added one million users in five days. we added one million users in the last hour.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 15:38:09
OpenAI says that it intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 “in the coming months.” That’s according to a feedback form the company published on its website Monday. The form, which OpenAI is inviting “developers, researchers, and [members of] the broader community” to fill out, includes questions like “What would you like to see in an open-weight model from OpenAI?” and “What open models have you used in the past?” “We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researche
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 19:22:51
In Brief An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” offers new details about why OpenAI’s board briefly fired CEO Sam Altman back in 2023. Written by Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey, the book claims the nonprofit’s board members became increasingly concerned after learning about issues such as an OpenAI Startup Fund that was actually personally owned by Altman. At the same time, co-founder Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati
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Free ChatGPT users will have to wait a while longer to be able to use its built-in image generation capability. OpenAI has just launched a feature that will allow users to generate images directly inside of ChatGPT, and it was supposed to roll out to all Plus, Pro, Team and Free users. But according to company CEO Sam Altman, it has been way more popular than OpenAI had expected even though they already had high expectations to begin with. As such, its rollout to the free tier is "unfortunately
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 23:57:00
Why it matters: If you use ChatGPT and have noticed its slow response time, OpenAI just confirmed that it is due to a lack of processing power. The company is scrambling to install thousands of GPUs by next week, with hundreds of thousands more "coming soon." In the meantime, the shortage has prompted the company to slow-roll the release of GPT-4.5. OpenAI just released GPT-4.5, but average users won't have access yet. The model is only available on the company's $200/month Pro tier. OpenAI CEO
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 07:21:10
In Brief OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was forced to stagger the rollout of its newest model, GPT-4.5, because OpenAI is “out of GPUs.” In a post on X, Altman said that GPT-4.5, which he described as “giant” and “expensive,” will require “tens of thousands” more GPUs before additional ChatGPT users can gain access. GPT-4.5 will come first to subscribers to ChatGPT Pro starting Thursday, followed by ChatGPT Plus customers next week. Perhaps in part due to its enormous size, GPT-4
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