ChatGPT Plus will be free to access for select users over the next few weeks, OpenAI announced on Friday. The AI firm’s ChatGPT Plus subscription tier typically costs $20 (roughly Rs. 1,700) per month, but eligible users won’t have to pay for access to OpenAI’s deep research and multiple reasoning models and limited access to … Read more
Earlier this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joked on X (formerly known as Twitter), “Can y’all please chill on generating images, this is insane our team needs sleep”. This was a reference to the massively popular online trend of Studio Ghibli-style images being churned out by OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Image Generator. Altman’s words struck me … Read more
New Delhi: The internet has found its latest obsession: the Ghibli trend. Thanks to OpenAI’s newest image-generation tool, social media users, including celebrities and politicians, are transforming their pictures into dreamy, Studio Ghibli-style animations. For one woman, though, the trend took an unexpected turn when ChatGPT gave her an extra hand. She initially uploaded a … Read more
OpenAI is making it easier to edit images in ChatGPT and create visuals for work that include lengthy, legible text, potentially broadening the chatbot’s appeal for businesses and everyday users. During a livestreamed event on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based company showed how ChatGPT users will be able to refine images by having a series of … Read more
OpenAI and Elon Musk have agreed to fast-track a trial over OpenAI’s for-profit shift, the latest turn in a grudge match between the world’s richest person and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman playing out publicly in court. Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI jointly proposed a trial in December, according to a federal court filing on Friday. … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding has released a new artificial intelligence model that it says can read emotions, in an apparent bid to outpace OpenAI’s latest model. In two demonstrations, Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their clothes and environment. … Read more
Microsoft is developing in-house artificial intelligence reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and may sell them to developers, The Information reported on Friday, citing a person involved in this initiative. The Redmond, Washington-based company, a major backer of OpenAI, has begun testing out models from xAI, Meta and DeepSeek as potential OpenAI replacements in Copilot, … Read more
A US judge on Tuesday denied billionaire Elon Musk’s request for a preliminary injunction to pause OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit model but agreed to a fast-track trial in the fall of this year, the latest turn in the high-stakes legal fight. Musk does not have “the high burden required for a preliminary injunction” to … Read more
DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 8,72,00,30 crore)-plus sell-off in global equities markets last month with a cut-price AI reasoning model that outperformed many Western competitors. Now, the Hangzhou-based firm is accelerating the launch of the successor to January’s R1 model, according to three people … Read more
DeepSeek may face more actions from national regulators in the future, Europe’s privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, underscoring the bloc’s concerns about the rising popularity of the cheap Chinese Artificial Intelligence startup. National privacy regulators discussed DeepSeek at a monthly meeting on Tuesday, after Italy blocked the chatbot over lack of information on its use … Read more