Google just pushed the release of its flagship AI model Gemini to early 2024, after previously telling cloud customers it would roll out in November. Positioned by DeepMind as its true competitor to GPT-4, the delay shows Google is still having a tough time catching up with OpenAI.
Discord is shutting down Clyde, its experimental AI chatbot powered by OpenAI, effective December 1st. Users will no longer be able to invoke Clyde in DMs, group chats, or servers. While Discord once planned to make Clyde a core part of the platform, it hasn't shared why the bot was suddenly canceled.
OpenAI just fired CEO Sam Altman after the board concluded he was not consistently candid in his communications, losing confidence in his leadership. Chief technology officer Mira Murati is stepping in as interim CEO while a permanent successor is sought. Greg Brockman is also stepping down as chairman of the board.
Microsoft just unveiled its first in-house silicon at Ignite: the Azure Maia 100 AI accelerator and the 128-core Azure Cobalt 100 CPU. Designed to power Azure workloads, Copilot, and OpenAI’s models, Maia packs 105 billion transistors on a 5nm node. Why it matters: Microsoft is finally joining Google and AWS with custom chips, giving it tighter control over skyrocketing AI infrastructure costs.
Microsoft just renamed Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise to Copilot, giving its AI assistant a dedicated web home at copilot.microsoft.com. After months of pushing AI inside search to challenge Google, Microsoft is unbundling the chatbot from Bing. It is now positioning Copilot as a standalone product to compete directly with ChatGPT.
OpenAI just paused new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups after a surge in usage following DevDay exceeded its server capacity. The team said the move is temporary to ensure existing users have a smooth experience, and waiting users can sign up inside the app to get notified when subscriptions reopen.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just confirmed the company has started training GPT-5, claiming the next-gen model could potentially cross into superintelligence. But building it won't be cheap—Altman noted that hitting AGI requires massive compute and data, meaning OpenAI will need billions more from Microsoft and other backers before it ever sees the light of day.
OpenAI's non-profit board of six directors will exclusively determine when the company has attained AGI. Crucially, once the board decides AGI has been reached, the technology is legally excluded from commercial IP licensing with Microsoft. Why it matters: just a half-dozen people hold the power to cut off OpenAI's biggest backer.
Sam Altman just used OpenAI’s new custom GPTs feature to troll Elon Musk’s rival chatbot, Grok. Altman instructed the builder to create a bot with awkward, "cringey boomer humor," which the system humorously dubbed Grok. It marks the latest jab in an ongoing feud between the two former co-founders.
Humane just revealed the AI Pin, a $699 magnetic wearable designed to replace phone screens with OpenAI models and voice controls. The clip-on gadget uses a tiny projector, camera, and gestures to handle messaging, nutrition lookup, and real-time translation. Why it matters: It represents the boldest bet yet on post-smartphone AI hardware, though preorders only begin November 16th.
OpenAI just rolled out custom GPTs to subscribers after beating back a coordinated DDoS attack that took down ChatGPT and its developer API. The rollout was stalled after traffic surges—initially blamed on DevDay hype—turned out to be foul play claimed by Anonymous Sudan. Now the service is stabilized and custom bots are live.
OpenAI just launched a new Data Partnerships program, inviting organizations to collaborate on building both public and proprietary datasets for training next-generation AI models. The company is hunting for massive, non-public data across text, audio, and video, offering its internal OCR and speech recognition tools to help digitize files. It is a clear push to secure high-quality human knowledge as public web data gets tapped out.
OpenAI just restored ChatGPT and its developer APIs after a major outage knocked services offline for over 90 minutes. The crash hit its 100 million weekly users with capacity errors following DevDay launch hype. Sam Altman warned that surging demand means short-term instability will likely stick around.
Amazon is developing a massive new AI model codenamed Olympus to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Google. Overseen directly by CEO Andy Jassy, the model reportedly features two trillion parameters and could power Alexa and Amazon's online store as soon as December. Why it matters: After falling behind in generative AI, Amazon is ready to throw serious compute behind proprietary foundation models.
The FTC just submitted a rare comment to the U.S. Copyright Office, warning that training AI on copyrighted material and deceptive synthetic mimicry could violate antitrust and consumer protection laws, even if defended as fair use. Critics argue the agency is overstepping its mandate.
Figma just rolled out FigJam AI, a new generative suite designed to kill the tedious busywork of whiteboard prep. The tool can spin up ready-to-use templates for brainstorming and flowcharts from simple prompts, as well as auto-group and summarize virtual sticky notes with one click. It is currently in open beta and free for all users.
OpenAI just launched GPTs, allowing users to create tailored versions of ChatGPT simply by chatting with a builder and plugging in custom instructions, files, and external APIs. A GPT Store is coming later this month with leaderboards and future revenue sharing. It basically turns everyone into an AI app builder, available now to Plus and Enterprise users.
OpenAI just unveiled GPT-4 Turbo at DevDay, boosting context length to 128K tokens while slashing input prices by 3x and output by 2x. It also launched the Assistants API with built-in retrieval and code execution, effectively handling the messy state management developers previously had to build from scratch.
World leaders just backed the Bletchley Declaration at the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, agreeing to collaborate on risks posed by frontier foundation models. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also announced a new AI safety institute under NIST to work with international partners on aligning safety policies.
Phind just rolled out a new coding model based on CodeLlama-34B that scores 74.7% on HumanEval, outpacing GPT-4. Powered by Nvidia TensorRT-LLM on H100 GPUs, it delivers up to 100 tokens per second with a 16k context window. Why it matters: developers get GPT-4-level code generation at GPT-3.5 speed, completely open-sourced on Hugging Face.
