According to the Financial Times, OpenAI is preparing to begin mass production of its own AI chips next year. The move is intended to secure the massive computing power needed for its services and to reduce its dependence on NVIDIA. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Smart shopping trollies! The custom chips were…
OpenAI is set to produce its first artificial intelligence chip next year in partnership with US semiconductor giant Broadcom, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. OpenAI plans to put the chip to use internally rather than make it available to external customers, the FT report said, citing one person…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, on Thursday released a new “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, marking its entry into a key focus area for AI companies. An agentic coding tool is an AI-powered software application that can autonomously perform coding-related tasks. xAI’s model, called grok-code-fast-1, will be available for free for a limited…
Elon Musk. David Swanson/Reuters Elon Musk tried to enlist rival Mark Zuckerberg for the US$97.4-billion bid that his consortium made for OpenAI earlier this year, but the CEO of Meta Platforms did not come on board, OpenAI said in a court filing on Thursday. OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, said Musk had communicated with Zuckerberg…
Following the recent launch of GPT-5, a significant number of users voiced their dissatisfaction with the new model’s writing style, leading OpenAI to bring back GPT-4o as an option. Users complained that GPT-5 felt “sterile” and “dumber” in comparison to its predecessor, with some even grieving the loss of what they considered a digital “friend…
OpenAI has launched its GPT-5 artificial intelligence model, the highly anticipated latest instalment of a technology that has helped transform global business and culture. OpenAI’s GPT models are the AI technology that powers the popular ChatGPT chatbot, and GPT-5 will be available to all 700 million ChatGPT users, OpenAI said. The big question is whether…
After months of anticipation, OpenAI has officially released GPT-5, its most advanced large language model to date. The new model, which is now available for both free and paid users, promises across-the-board improvements in writing, coding, reasoning, and safety. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: iPad Pro and VR? In a press briefing,…
OpenAI has introduced two new open-weight language models designed for advanced reasoning, optimised to run on local hardware. The models are intended to provide performance levels similar to some of the company’s smaller proprietary reasoning models. This marks the first time OpenAI has released open models since GPT-2 in 2019. Read: Samsung Galaxy Tab S10…
OpenAI is rolling out a new Study Mode for ChatGPT, a feature designed to help students better understand complex topics. Similar to Anthropic’s Claude, this new mode will see ChatGPT adopt a Socratic approach to conversations. Instead of providing direct answers, the chatbot will guide the user toward their own solutions by asking initial questions…
OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Google’s market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter have said. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. It will…
