#OpenAI

#OpenAI

Sam Netherwood, co-founder and director of Tomoro, spoke to The Register about the development of Concierge and the project's goals. "Initially, Virgin engaged us," Netherwood said. "We partner quite closely with OpenAI. Virgin also had already entered into an agreement with OpenAI. And so that's how it came together in the first place. And initially we just did a proof-of-concept over about six weeks."

App developers looking to launch their programs in ChatGPT can now submit them for review and potential publication, OpenAI said Wednesday. The company also introduced a new app directory within Chat's tools menu that has swiftly been dubbed an "app store."

The talks, first reported by The Information and subsequently confirmed by multiple sources, are said to be at an early and fluid stage. News of the potential deal pushed Amazon shares up around 0.6 per cent, reflecting investor optimism around the deepening relationship between the world's largest cloud provider and one of the most influential AI developers. As part of the proposed investment, OpenAI is expected to increase its use of Amazon's Trainium AI accelerator chips,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now maybe taking a page out of Elon Musk's and Trump's playbook, and posting a cheeky AI-generated photo of himself as a sexy calendar firefighter to Xitter. In what's apparently intended to show off the capabilities of Images 1.5, the new image-creation module in ChatGPT, OpenAI's Sam Altman posted the example below. The embedded version cuts off his head, but click through and you'll see it's Sam.

The new image generation model allows for more precise image editing and can generate images up to four times faster than OpenAI's previous image creation AI, the company said in a blog post.

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. In interviews with Ars Technica this week, OpenAI employees revealed the extent to which the company now relies on its own AI coding agent, Codex, to build and improve the development tool. "I think the vast majority of Codex is built by Codex, so it's almost entirely just being used to improve itself," said Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI, in a conversation on Tuesday.

It may sound like a trip through the produce aisle, but leading AI companies have something much more important on their lists. Meta, OpenAI, and Google have all relied on food-related names for their sometimes secretive plans for future AI models. Thinking with your stomach is nothing new for Silicon Valley, just look at the assortment of desserts Android assembled over the years before Google had its fill.