Amir Efrati

Last fall, several Google artificial intelligence leaders met with Jonathan Siddharth, CEO of a startup that sells access to part-time software engineers on demand. The Google managers asked Siddharth whether the startup, Turing, could use its army of human programmers to teach Google’s AI to be ...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a multibillion-dollar business in large part because programmers use it to write and check their code, fix bugs and translate code into different programming languages. Now, facing competition from rival artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, OpenAI is putting ...

When Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI in the next month or so, as senior leaders expect him to, the artificial intelligence startup’s co-founder will rejoin a company that’s already changed a lot in the two months since he started a sabbatical. In the time he was gone, OpenAI Chief Technology ...

Google’s head of search and advertising, Prabhakar Raghavan, is moving to a new role while the team behind the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot, which competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is moving to the DeepMind AI group, CEO Sundar Pichai said Thursday. Raghavan spent about four years in the role after earlier running ads. The search business is under some threat from ChatGPT and

Last fall, members of OpenAI’s board of directors had had enough of the rumblings inside the artificial intelligence startup about CEO Sam Altman’s management style. They began questioning staffers, including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, about how Altman operated, including his tendency ...

A lot happened toward the end of last week. For starters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman showed once again that he's a master of fundraising.Despite what seemed like a lack of investor enthusiasm just a few weeks ago, Altman appears to have gotten enough demand to raise more than $6 billion for the ...

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the CEOs of other firms including Spotify and Publicis published an open letter Thursday, asking EU authorities to come up with a “modern interpretation” of the region’s consumer data protection rules or risk harming artificial intelligence development. Meta paid to publish the letter as an ad in newspapers such as the Financial Times. EU rules such as

In the artificial intelligence race, competition is fierce. Every big AI developer is watching rivals like a hawk and trying to reverse-engineer or copy their best work, as we’ve reported.What can a leader like OpenAI do to keep its edge? The company’s newly released reasoning model, o1-preview, ...

Before you get your hands on OpenAI’s Strawberry reasoning model—which we’re told is due out before the end of this week, including a version that will be in the free tier of ChatGPT—noodle on this:Can artificial intelligence kill the enterprise software app industry that’s led by companies such ...

OpenAI has been talking to a UAE state-backed fund about participating in the artificial intelligence developer’s capital raise of up to $7 billion, The Information reported Thursday . The fund, MGX, would join existing investors Thrive Capital, Microsoft, Khosla Ventures and others in the new round. OpenAI needs the money, as its losses have been mounting. But the company’s revenue engine,

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has more than 10 million paying subscribers and another 1 million subscribers that are part of higher-priced plans for business teams, COO Brad Lightcap recently told staff in a message, according to a person who viewed the message. Those numbers, which the company hasn’t ...