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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’…

The new AI calculus: Google’s 80% cost edge vs. OpenAI’s ecosystem
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The relentless pace of generative AI innovation shows no signs of slowing. In just the past couple of weeks, OpenAI dropped its powerful o3 and o4-mini reasoning models alongside the GPT-4.1 series, while Google countered with…

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,…

How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT keeps expanding with new features. The chatbot’s memory feature lets you save preferences so that chats are more tailored to you. ChatGPT also has an upgraded voice mode, letting you interact with the platform more or less in real time. It even offers a store — the GPT Store —…

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….

Open-source revolution: How DeepSeek-R1 challenges OpenAI’s o1 with superior processing, cost efficiency
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The AI industry is witnessing a seismic shift with the introduction of DeepSeek-R1, a cutting-edge open-source reasoning model developed by the eponymous Chinese startup DeepSeek. Released on January 20, this model is challenging OpenAI’s o1 —…

Five breakthroughs that make OpenAI’s o3 a turning point for AI — and one big challenge
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The end of the year 2024 has brought reckonings for artificial intelligence, as industry insiders feared progress toward even more intelligent AI is slowing down. But OpenAI’s o3 model, announced just last week, has sparked a…

OpenAI’s plan to make ChatGPT the ‘everything app’ has never been more clear
OpenAI is making major moves as it sets the table for 2025. To the casual observer, OpenAI has spent the past week flooding the tech world with announcements and rollouts — not all of which gel into any sort of clear product agenda. It’s all part of a holiday-timed event called “12 Days of OpenAI,”…