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OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool has hallucination issues, researchers say

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Software engineers, developers, and academic researchers have serious concerns about transcriptions from OpenAI’s Whisper, according to a report in the Associated Press. While there’s been no shortage of discussion around generative AI’s…

OpenAI denies it’s releasing a model called ‘Orion’ this year

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Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s reported plans for its next AI model; a buzzy new messaging app that’s a hit with Gen Z; and Tim Cook discovering that you can name a group chat in iMessage. Let’s get…

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OpenAI's AGI readiness team has been dissolved

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OpenAI has once again trimmed its safety-focused operations, dissolving its AGI Readiness team — a group dedicated to preparing for so-called artificial general intelligence. Miles Brundage, a senior advisor on the team, broke the news in…

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VCs are 'hedging their bets,' backing competing LLMs like Anthropic and OpenAI, breaking a long-standing venture taboo

There has traditionally been an unspoken rule for VCs to not back competitors. But now investors are backing competing LLM startups.

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Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary (Associated Press)

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Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered…

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OpenAI, Authors Battle Over Execs' Texts And Proof Of Harm

www.law360.com

California labor law doesn't shield OpenAI from producing CEO Sam Altman's and President Greg Brockman's texts and social media messages relevant to a copyright infringement lawsuit, authors alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally used…

Friday, Oct 25

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Source: Perplexity CEO told staff in 2023 that it had acquisition offers from X, OpenAI, and Notion, in the $150M to $200M range; Microsoft was also interested (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

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Source: Perplexity CEO told staff in 2023 that it had acquisition offers from X, OpenAI, and Notion, in the $150M to $200M range; Microsoft was also interested — Aravind Srinivas didn't set out to earn a reputation as one of the media's…

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OpenAI could release its next-generation model by December

www.digitaltrends.com

A report says OpenAI plans to release its next-generation Orion LLM in December, but CEO Sam Altman is already pushing back.

OpenAI Reported To Launch Its Orion Model In December — Or Maybe Not

www.forbes.com

An exclusive media story reported Orion will launch in December and be 100x more powerful than ChatGPT-4. OpenAI's CEO dismissed the story as “fake news.”

OpenAI says it won't release a model called Orion this year (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI says it won't release a model called Orion this year — OpenAI says that it doesn't intend to release an AI model code-named Orion this year, countering recent reporting from The Verge on the AI company's roadmap. — “We don't have…

Four Truths About OpenAI’s Wild Financial Position

www.thewrap.com

A peek inside OpenAI's books shows a company losing money fast and coming up with novel profitability calculations. Is it sustainable?

OpenAI says it won’t release a model called Orion this year

techcrunch.com

OpenAI says that it doesn’t intend to release an AI model code-named Orion this year, countering recent reporting from The Verge on the AI company’s roadmap. “We don’t have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year,” a…

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OpenAI outlines national security approach

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OpenAI doubled down on the importance of the U.S. maintaining leadership on artificial intelligence (AI) development in a new outline of the company's approach to national security. The ChatGPT maker, in a blog post Thursday, laid out how…

Inside Wall Street's efforts to value OpenAI: Who's involved, how it could work, and what's at stake for the banks

Valuing OpenAI will be a stressful, drawn-out process with little to no financial gain for Wall Street, but it's still a major win for banks.

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Former OpenAI Employee Condemns the Company’s Data Scraping Practices

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An artificial intelligence researcher who worked at OpenAI as recently as August says the company violates copyright law.

The Week in AI: Anthropic Agents, OpenAI’s Swarm and an Apple iOS Update Debut

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This week in artificial intelligence, Anthropic and OpenAI unveiled new AI systems capable of controlling computers and working in teams, while the U.S. Department of the Treasury demonstrated AI’s real-world impact by recovering $3.8…

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OpenAI to Reveal Latest AI Model This December but What Does It Bring?

www.techtimes.com

OpenAI is getting ready for a massive December with a new and massive AI model revelation.

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Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says "fake news out of control" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says “fake news out of control” — The Verge last night published an exclusive and seemingly well researched and…

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The world is not ready for the next huge development in AI, says departing OpenAI researcher

www.independent.co.uk

‘Artificial general intelligence’ could bring computers that are more capable than human brains