Generations from now, how will historians describe November 30, 2022?
That was the day OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research organization, introduced ChatGPT to the known universe.
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OpenAI was founded in December 2015 by, among others, entrepreneur, investor and current CEO Sam Altman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with the mission of developing “safe and beneficial” artificial general intelligence, defined as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at the most economically valuable work.”
“We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT, which interacts in a conversational manner,” OpenAi said on that first day. “The dialogue format allows ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
The chatbot was seen internally as a “research preview,” said Sandhini Agarwal, who works on policy at OpenAI. MIT technology Review; a preview of a more polished version of a two-year-old technology and an attempt to fix some of its flaws by gathering feedback from the public.
“We didn't want to promote it as some fundamental breakthrough,” said Liam Fedus, a scientist at OpenAI who worked on ChatGPT.
The public reacted very differently to ChatGPT and it went viral on social media, where users shared examples of what it could do.
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“I think it was a surprise for all of us to see how people started using it,” Agarwal said. “We work so hard on these models that we sometimes forget how amazing they can be to the outside world.”
Within five days of its launch, the chatbot had attracted more than a million users.
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In comparison, it took instagram about 2.5 months to reach 1 million downloads, while Netflix had to wait about 3.5 years to reach 1 million users, according to Explosive Topicswho cited Statista, Reuters and Similarweb.
“We are excited to introduce ChatGPT to get feedback from users and learn about its strengths and weaknesses,” OpenAI said.
OpenAI isn't the only one excited about ChatGPT. It now has more than 200 million weekly active users, double the number it had last November. Axios reported on August 29th.
OpenAI said that more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using its products and that usage of its automated application programming interface (API) has doubled since the release of GPT-4o mini in July.
“People now use our tools as part of their daily lives, making a real difference in areas like healthcare and education, whether helping with routine tasks, solving difficult problems or unlocking creativity,” Altman said in a statement to Axios.
In June, Apple (APL-American Lead Association) Apple has named OpenAI as the first official partner for its artificial intelligence platform, Apple Intelligence. Apple's new ai will feature an improved Siri voice assistant, text correction, and custom emoji creation.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the tech giant has big plans for the chatbot, including integrating ChatGPT into experiences across iPhone, Mac and iPad, “allowing users to tap into a vast global knowledge base.”
“We're very excited about Apple Intelligence and remain incredibly optimistic about the extraordinary possibilities of ai and its ability to enrich customers' lives,” Cook told analysts during the company's third-quarter earnings conference call on Aug. 1.
“We will continue to make significant investments in this technology and will focus on innovation that will unlock its full potential.”
Both Apple, which is scheduled to launch its iPhone 16 series in September, and ai chipmaking giant Nvidia (NVDA) are looking to invest money in OpenAI to strengthen their positions in the highly competitive ai race.
Nvidia, arguably the biggest beneficiary of the ai frenzy due to surging demand for its ai semiconductor chips, has invested in other companies. In August, Nvidia’s latest 13-F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed it held a total of nearly $400 million in five companies, including Arm Holdings.
The investment would be part of a new round of fundraising by OpenAI and would value the ChatGPT maker at over $100 billion, according to tech/ai/openai-apple-funding-chatgpt-50754cd6?st=hast65vb83x4vum&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink”>The Wall Street Journal.
Venture capital firm Thrive Capital is leading the round, which will total several billion dollars, and software giant Microsoft is leading the round. (MSFT) He is also expected to participate.
It has not been determined how much these tech heavyweights will invest in OpenAI in this round. To date, Microsoft has been the largest strategic investor in OpenAI, taking a 49% stake in the ai startup’s profits after investing $13 billion in multiple tranches since 2019.
Fight for a share of the ai market
While OpenAI faces serious competition from other ai startups and big tech companies, ChatGPT remains the market leader.
facebook Parent Company Target Platforms (GOAL) He said his Llama ai models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs. (GS) and AT&T (I) for business functions such as customer service, document review, and computer code generation.
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Llama models have been downloaded nearly 350 million times since Meta began releasing them publicly last year, up from the 300 million downloads the company announced when it launched the larger version of its latest Llama 3 model in late July.
Usage via cloud providers such as amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure has also increased, doubling between May and July of this year.
Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google and launched last year.
The world's most popular search engine ran into trouble in February when users discovered that Gemini could not reliably create images of white people.
With the latest version of its image generator, Image 3, Google said: “We’ve made significant progress in providing a better user experience when generating images of people.”
“We do not support the generation of photorealistic images, images of identifiable individuals, minors, or excessively gory, violent or sexual images,” said Dave Citron, a senior director at Google, in a statement. Blog entry.
On August 28, Google, which had removed Gemini's ability to impersonate any human, began re-enabling the feature for users who pay to use the English version of the chatbot.
Elon Musk, who resigned from OpenAI's board of directors in 2018 over potential conflict-of-interest concerns regarding Tesla's ai development for self-driving cars, now runs his own ai program called xAI.
In June, Musk threatened to ban iPhones, iPads and Macs from the office if Apple integrated ChatGPT into Apple's operating system.
The ban would apply to all of its companies, including SpaceX and x, formerly twitter, and even visitors would have to leave their devices at the door.
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