OpenAI

OpenAI, founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others, develops artificial intelligence models. The organization is known for generative AI technologies like the GPT series, including ChatGPT. TechCrunch covers OpenAI’s innovations and impact, providing detailed insights into the AI landscape.

AI hardware has taken on a new shape with Friend’s $99 necklace — a pendant that gives you an AI friend to talk to and…

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Microsoft has a long and tangled history with OpenAI, having invested a reported $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker as part of a long-term partnership. As part of the deal,…

Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that OpenAI is working with the U.S. AI Safety Institute, a federal government body that aims to assess and address risks in AI platforms, on…

OpenAI pledges to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model

AI lobbying at the U.S. federal level is intensifying in the midst of a continued generative AI boom and an election year that could influence future AI regulation. New data…

AI startups ramp up federal lobbying efforts

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code…

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

A lot of AI bills are flying around Congress these days, and OpenAI is throwing its weight behind some of them. OpenAI endorsed three Senate bills on Tuesday which could…

OpenAI endorses Senate bills that could shape America’s AI policy

OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on Tuesday, giving users their first access to GPT-4o’s hyperrealistic audio responses. The alpha version will be available to a small group…

OpenAI releases ChatGPT’s hyperrealistic voice to some paying users

OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a new AI search experience to compete directly with Google. The feature aims to elevate search queries with “timely answers” from across the internet and allows…

OpenAI comes for Google with SearchGPT

OpenAI may have designs to get into the search game — challenging not only upstarts like Perplexity, but Google and Bing, too. The company on Thursday unveiled SearchGPT, a search…

With Google in its sights, OpenAI unveils SearchGPT

Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google’s corporate venture arm. The…

OpenAI-backed legal tech startup Harvey raises $100M

OpenAI is launching a mini version of its latest AI model. These small AI models are meant to be faster and more affordable than the…

TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI shrinks its flagship model

OpenAI introduced GPT-4o mini on Thursday, its latest small AI model. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s current cutting-edge AI models, is being released…

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a smaller and cheaper AI model

When Jaclyn Rice Nelson and Noah Gale launched AI talent and services company Tribe AI in 2019, they had to convince companies that having an AI strategy mattered. After the…

Tribe AI raised venture capital to keep up with demand after six years of bootstrapping

Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an “AI native” education platform. In tech speak, that usually means built from the…

After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education

Trouble could be on the horizon for OpenAI. A group of whistleblowers accused OpenAI of requiring its employees to sign illegally restrictive non-disclosure agreements, or…

TechCrunch Minute: Whistleblowers say OpenAI employs ‘illegally restrictive’ NDAs

In May, when OpenAI first demoed an eerily realistic, nearly real-time “advanced voice mode” for its AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT, the company said that the feature would roll out to…

OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode

You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first…

ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all

In 2024, it seems like no week goes by without a media organization, author group or artist suing generative AI companies for using their work to train models without permission.…

Backed by David Sacks, Garry Tan and Walter Isaacson, Created by Humans helps people license their creative work to AI models

The Multi deal seems to fit into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in enterprise solutions.

OpenAI buys a remote collaboration platform

The Rockset buy fits into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in its enterprise sales and tech orgs.

OpenAI buys Rockset to bolster its enterprise AI

OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.

How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans

The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for its customers and possibly humanity.

Former NSA head joins OpenAI board and safety committee

Soon, Siri will be able to tap ChatGPT for “expertise” where it might be helpful, Apple says.

Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri

In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was pressured to resign…

Paul Graham claims Sam Altman wasn’t fired from Y Combinator

You probably remember that back in November, OpenAI’s board fired the company’s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. What followed was this incredibly complicated power struggle…

TechCrunch Minute: What Sam Altman’s firing and rehiring reveals about OpenAI

OpenAI has formed a new committee to oversee “critical” safety and security decisions related to the company’s projects and operations. But, in a move that’s sure to raise the ire…

OpenAI’s new safety committee is made up of all insiders

A data protection taskforce that’s spent over a year considering how the European Union’s data protection rulebook applies to OpenAI’s viral chatbot, ChatGPT, reported preliminary conclusions Friday. The top-line takeaway…

EU’s ChatGPT taskforce offers first look at detangling the AI chatbot’s privacy compliance

OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to a person from that team. But…

OpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source says

OpenAI has reached a deal with Reddit to use the social news site’s data for training AI models. In a blog post on OpenAI’s press relations site, the company said…

OpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data

OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has left the company. Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s director of research.

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs