When Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath asked Sam Altman to picture the life of a 25-year-old in Mumbai or Bengaluru, the OpenAI chief didn’t hesitate. For him, this is not just a good time to begin a career — it may well be the best in history. Speaking on Kamath’s WTF podcast, Altman painted an upbeat…
US artificial intelligence (AI) firm OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for patience from ChatGPT users, noting that the upcoming feature launches and new model releases could cause “probable hiccups and capacity crunches”. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Altman wrote, “We have a ton of stuff to launch over the next couple of…
OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from rival tech companies, including former Tesla executive David Lau, to join its scaling team, WIRED reported. According to an internal Slack message sent by OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on Tuesday, the new hires include Lau, who was vice president of software engineering at Tesla, Uday Ruddarraju, former head of infrastructure…
EXCLUSIVE: AI is arguably one of the hottest topics on the lips of global entertainment industry figures at the moment. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the industry was awash with buyers, sellers and festival heads chattering about how to come to grips with this new phase of technology that is increasingly encroaching on the…
Sam Altman-run OpenAI will continue to be overseen and controlled by the nonprofit and its ‘for profit LLC’ will transition to a public benefit corporation (PBC), giving the nonprofit better resources to support several benefits, the company has announced. OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit, and is today overseen and controlled by that nonprofit. “Going…
Two years ago, OpenAI launched the chatbot craze with the release of ChatGPT. Now it hopes to spark interest in a new wave of A.I. technology. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled a tool called Operator that can go out onto the internet and perform tasks autonomously, like shopping for groceries or booking a restaurant reservation. “It…