What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition?

What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition?

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one…

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This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom

This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s new, powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss was released less than two weeks ago under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first…

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A Developer’s Guide to OpenAI’s GPT-5 Model Capabilities

A Developer’s Guide to OpenAI’s GPT-5 Model Capabilities

In this tutorial, we’ll explore the new capabilities introduced in OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5. The update brings several powerful features, including the Verbosity parameter, Free-form Function Calling, Context-Free Grammar (CFG), and Minimal Reasoning. We’ll look at what they do and how to use them in practice. Check out the Full Codes here. Installing the libraries !pip…

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Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you | TechCrunch

Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you | TechCrunch

Shortly after Hunter Lightman joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2022, he watched his colleagues launch ChatGPT, one of the fastest-growing products ever. Meanwhile, Lightman quietly worked on a team teaching OpenAI’s models to solve high school math competitions.  Today that team, known as MathGen, is considered instrumental to OpenAI’s industry-leading effort to create AI…

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OpenAI’s CEO says kindness comes with a price

OpenAI’s CEO says kindness comes with a price

Summary Politeness in ChatGPT has hidden costs. Using manners with AI can impact energy usage. Kindness in prompts isn’t necessary but signifies respect. It doesn’t cost anything to be kind — unless that kindness is directed at your friendly neighborhood chatbot. Last week, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, disclosed that users using manners-driven language like ‘please’…

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OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds

OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s voice AI models have gotten it into trouble before with actor Scarlett Johansson, but that isn’t stopping the company from continuing to advance its offerings in this category. Today, the ChatGPT maker has unveiled three,…

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users, a milestone that underscores the company’s growing reach across both consumer and enterprise markets, according to an X post from chief operating officer Brad Lightcap on Thursday….

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