OpenAI Reportedly Working on an AI-Powered Social Media Platform

OpenAI Reportedly Working on an AI-Powered Social Media Platform

OpenAI is reportedly working on a social media platform. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is planning to integrate AI capabilities into the social app, although details around the integration are currently not known. The platform is said to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as … Read more

OpenAI Reportedly Wants to Acquire Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s Startup That’s Building a New AI Device

OpenAI Reportedly Wants to Acquire Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s Startup That’s Building a New AI Device

OpenAI is reportedly discussing the possibility of buying CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup. The unnamed startup was reportedly founded last year and is building AI-powered devices. One of the designs was rumoured to be inspired by the original iPhone, although its functionality could be different. At the moment, it is … Read more

Why Does Your AI ‘Ghibli’ Look So Terrible? Because It Is

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

OpenAI to Add Support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to Connect ChatGPT With External Data Hubs

OpenAI to Add Support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to Connect ChatGPT With External Data Hubs

OpenAI is adding support for Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products. Company CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the Agents software development kit (SDK) is now offering MCP support, and several other of its products will soon adopt it as well. The protocol essentially standardises how AI systems connect to external … Read more

OpenAI, Elon Musk Agree to Fast Tracked Trial Over For-Profit Shift

OpenAI, Elon Musk Agree to Fast Tracked Trial Over For-Profit Shift

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

OpenAI Weighs Special Voting Rights to Guard Against Hostile Takeovers: Report

OpenAI Weighs Special Voting Rights to Guard Against Hostile Takeovers: Report

OpenAI is considering granting special voting rights to its non-profit board to preserve the power of its directors, as the ChatGPT-maker fends off an unsolicited takeover bid from Elon Musk, Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and board members are evaluating new governance measures as the company transitions to a traditional … Read more

OpenAI Board Rejects Elon Musk’s $97.4 Billion Offer

OpenAI Board Rejects Elon Musk

OpenAI on Friday rejected a $97.4 billion (roughly Rs. 8,45,768 crore) bid from a consortium led by billionaire Elon Musk for the ChatGPT maker, saying the startup is not for sale and that any future bid would be disingenuous. The unsolicited approach is Musk’s latest attempt to block the startup he co-founded with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — but later left — from … Read more

OpenAI Says Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid Contradicts His Lawsuit Against It

OpenAI Says Elon Musk

Billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to buy OpenAI, which wants to be a for-profit entity, clashes with his lawsuit arguing that assets of the ChatGPT maker should not be for private gain, OpenAI wrote in a letter it submitted to a federal court on Wednesday. On Monday, a consortium of investors led by Elon Musk offered … Read more

OpenAI’s Board Said to Have Not Received Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid

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OpenAI’s board has not yet received a formal bid from an Elon Musk-led consortium, although a lawyer for the billionaire said the offer had been sent to OpenAI’s outside counsel. A day after Musk publicised a bid to offer $97.4 billion (roughly Rs. 8,45,581 crore) to buy the nonprofit that controls ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the two … Read more

Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI, Sam Altman Says ‘No Thank You’

Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI, Sam Altman Says

A group of investors led by Elon Musk has offered to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion (roughly Rs. 8,46,576 crore), escalating a clash between the Tesla chief executive and the artificial intelligence company he co-founded.  With the unsolicited bid, Musk said he hopes to return OpenAI to being “the open-source, safety-focused … Read more