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Roi Tiger, the co-founder of the Onavo mobile analytics startup bought by Facebook, is working on a new cybersecurity startup and has already raised money from top investors.
The Israel-based company, whose name and product couldn’t be learned, has already raised a seed round from Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, according to two people with direct knowledge, as well as Israel-based venture
9 days ago
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OpenAI executives in recent months have spoken multiple times with their counterparts at Reliance Industries, which owns the world’s largest oil refinery, India’s top wireless carrier and numerous retailers, about a potential product and sales partnership, according to two people who spoke to ...
11 days ago
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Shortly after Elon Musk made a surprise $97 billion bid for OpenAI’s assets on Monday, its CEO Sam Altman told staff in a message that its board of directors intends to make clear it has no interest in Musk’s “supposed ‘bid’” and that the offer wasn’t in the interest of OpenAI’s mission to ...
about 2 months ago
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Google doesn’t get the accolades OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek are getting in advancing artificial intelligence, but it’s arguably doing some things right.Case in point: On Wednesday, Google made a trio of new Gemini AI models generally available to app developers, including a reasoning model ...
about 2 months ago
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Paid subscribers to ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, OpenAI recently told some shareholders, despite competition from chatbots made by Google, Anthropic and Meta Platforms. Based on what OpenAI charges for the chatbot subscriptions, the increase ...
2 months ago
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As questions swirl about whether super-cheap-yet-high-quality Chinese artificial intelligence threatens American-made AI, a new data point suggests OpenAI has some major advantages, relative to its compatriots.We reported Tuesday that OpenAI leaders recently made comments implying that ChatGPT ...
2 months ago
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Revenue from OpenAI’s most expensive subscription tier of ChatGPT has surpassed revenue the company generates from customers of the artificial intelligence chatbot who are part of business team subscriptions, OpenAI leaders recently told some shareholders.
The precise figure couldn’t be learned, but the leaders’ comments imply that ChatGPT Pro subscriptions—which cost $200 per month and
2 months ago
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Ten months ago, we broke the story that OpenAI and Microsoft were discussing “Stargate,” an unprecedented $100 billion data center supercomputer to take artificial intelligence to new heights. On Tuesday, Stargate finally became official—but largely without Microsoft.At the White House on ...
2 months ago
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OpenAI and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank will each commit $19 billion to fund a joint venture to develop data centers for artificial intelligence in the U.S., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told some colleagues Wednesday. The ChatGPT developer would effectively hold a 40% interest in the venture, ...
2 months ago
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OpenAI’s artificial intelligence for writing software code has fueled a multibillion-dollar revenue business, with human programmers using the company’s ChatGPT as a coding helper. Now the company is working on AI to help senior software engineers handle more complex programming tasks, a key ...
2 months ago
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Leaders of Microsoft and OpenAI have talked a lot publicly about artificial general intelligence, a term that has been defined as when artificial intelligence can surpass human performance in a variety of tasks. But behind the scenes, the companies last year agreed that AGI would be achieved only when the OpenAI board had sufficient evidence that the company’s technology to produce $100 billion
3 months ago