OpenAI lawyers question Meta’s role in Elon Musk’s $97B takeover bid  | TechCrunch

OpenAI lawyers question Meta’s role in Elon Musk’s B takeover bid  | TechCrunch

OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to acquire or invest in the ChatGPT-maker. The request was made public in a brief filed Thursday in Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI. Lawyers representing OpenAI said they subpoenaed Meta in June for documents related to its … Read more

ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated | TechCrunch

ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated | TechCrunch

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI hoped GPT-5 would act as a sort of “one size fits all” AI model with a router that would automatically decide how to best answer user questions. The company said this unified approach would eliminate the need for … Read more

OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

Four OpenAI researchers are leaving the company to go to Meta, two sources confirm to WIRED. Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu, and Hongyu Ren have joined Meta’s superintelligence team. Their OpenAI Slack profiles have been deactivated. The Information first reported on the departures. It’s the latest in a series of aggressive moves by Mark … Read more

Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI | TechCrunch

Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI | TechCrunch

Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meta had hired influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, and according to The Wall Street Journal, it also hired three other researchers from the company. Now The Information is reporting four more Meta hires from OpenAI: Researchers Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, … Read more

Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’ | TechCrunch

Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’ | TechCrunch

In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with Altman’s Midwest childhood, then takes readers through his career at startup Loopt, accelerator Y Combinator, … Read more

OpenAI Backs Down on Restructuring Amid Pushback

OpenAI Backs Down on Restructuring Amid Pushback

The newly proposed structure keeps the nonprofit in control, though Monday’s blog post didn’t go into detail about what exactly that will look like. The company specified that its current for-profit subsidiary will become a public benefit corporation (PBC), which is how its competitors Anthropic and xAI are set up. PBCs are legally allowed to … Read more

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up efforts to fend off increasingly stiff competition from companies like Google and Anthropic. The models are available to developers through OpenAI’s application programming interface (API). OpenAI is releasing three sizes of models: … Read more

ChatGPT adoption skyrockets in India, but monetization may be trailing | TechCrunch

OpenAI launches a sub  ChatGPT plan in India | TechCrunch

For years, U.S.-based tech companies have tapped into India’s vast and increasing internet user base for growth. OpenAI is no exception. But while the AI lab claims that India is one of its fastest-growing ChatGPT markets, third-party data suggests that OpenAI may be struggling to turn that momentum into revenue. According to analytics firm SensorTower, … Read more

OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work

OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work

Isla Fulford, a researcher at OpenAI, had a hunch that Deep Research would be a hit even before it was released. Fulford had helped build the artificial intelligence agent, which autonomously explores the web, deciding for itself what links to click, what to read, and what to collate into an in-depth report. OpenAI first made … Read more