By Krystal Hu (Reuters) –OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion, following a deal in which current and former employees sold roughly $6.6 billion worth of shares, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. This represents a bump-up from its current valuation of $300 billion, underscoring OpenAI’s…
In a video on OpenAI’s new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens — each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as…
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an AI video app called Sora. The platform is powered by OpenAI’s latest video generation model, Sora 2, and revolves around a TikTok-like For You page of user-generated clips. This is the first product release from OpenAI that adds AI-generated sounds to videos. For now, it’s available only on iOS and…
OpenAI is releasing a stand-alone social app for making and sharing artificial intelligence-generated videos with friends, an attempt to supercharge adoption for the emerging technology just as ChatGPT did for chatbots three years ago. The free Sora app, available from Tuesday by invitation, is powered by a new version of OpenAI’s video-making software of the…
Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined. This figure suggests that China is building leadership in robotics not merely for industrial efficiency, but as a direct path to achieving independence in core artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The prioritisation of embodied intelligence, or AI-powered robots,…
Elon Musk’s empire is losing senior talent, with veterans and new hires bailing over punishing hours, sudden pivots, and his MAGA-flavored politics, amid an ongoing war with OpenAI’s Sam Altman. The pace reflects Musk’s all-consuming race to catch rivals in AI after ChatGPT upended Silicon Valley’s pecking order, insiders told the Financial Times. Several current…
We recently published 10 Buzzing Tech and AI Stocks Everyone’s Talking About. NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the stocks analysts were recently talking about. Doug Clinton, Intelligent Alpha founder and CEO, said in a latest program on CNBC that the market perspective following NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) deal with OpenAI is wrong. He was referring…
In a development that should surprise no one, OpenAI is preparing to release a standalone social app powered by its upcoming Sora 2 video model, Wired reports. The app reportedly “closely resembles” TikTok, with a vertical video feed and swipe-to-scroll navigation. The catch? It will only feature AI-generated content; there’s apparently no option for the…
OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, announced new parental controls on Monday aimed at helping protect young people who interact with its generative artificial intelligence program. All ChatGPT users will have access to the control features from Monday onward, the company said. The announcement comes as OpenAI, which technically allows users as young as 13 to…
ChatGPT wants to be your personal online shopper. A new “Instant Checkout” feature lets users make purchases on a product the AI-powered bot brings up in a chat, without having to navigate outside of the app, ChatGPT creator OpenAI said in a statement Monday. For example, if you query ChatGPT for the “best mattress under…