Stephanie Palazzolo

OpenAI said Friday it has begun piloting group chat capabilities in ChatGPT for people in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. The move confirms The Information’s report from June about the feature, which could eventually help OpenAI’s chatbot compete more directly with Microsoft and Google in collaboration software and other productivity apps. The announcement comes as OpenAI also is

Investors are rushing to back a new generation of research-focused AI startups. In just over a month, they’ve made or discussed $2.5 billion of investments into five of these startups, called neolabs, despite the high costs and risk of failure. The neolab startups’ founders say they hope to ...

Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Richard Socher, CEO of AI search startup You.com and a former chief scientist at Salesforce, hopes to raise around $1 billion for a new AI research startup he will oversee, said two people who spoke to senior staff at You.com. Socher will remain at the helm of You.com, he said in an interview. ...

Decagon, which develops AI for automating customer service, is discussing raising equity funding from new investors at a valuation of $4 billion to $5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The discussions come just five months after the company announced financing ...

Coding and financial services are two of the most common domains that people cite when I ask about the most promising applications of artificial intelligence. Now we have an example that combines both of them.Wednesday morning, corporate card issuer Brex announced a series of new “agentic” ...

I’d recommend you check out our annual list of the most promising startups, which we published this morning and includes companies across artificial intelligence, consumer, cybersecurity, crypto and more.Each year, it gets harder and harder to come up with our final list of AI applications and ...

OpenAI flooded the zone yesterday with a long-awaited announcement regarding its revised agreement with Microsoft and corporate restructuring, and an hour-long livestream in which CEO Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki answered questions from the public. (For more on the ...

This summer, Fidji Simo wasted no time addressing a concern among many at OpenAI. Leading her first all-hands meeting as the startup’s new CEO of applications, she acknowledged that she and many others at OpenAI shared the same background: They’d previously worked at Meta Platforms. And then ...

Synthesia, a London-based maker of artificial intelligence software that generates video avatars of people, is in talks to raise a new round of funding led by early investor GV, an investment arm of Google-owner Alphabet, at a $4 billion valuation including the investment, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The startup recently passed $150 million in annual recurring