John Werner,@John Werner
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OpenAI is making a strategic shift by releasing its first open-weight AI model since 2019, a move influenced by the rising economic pressures from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta. This marks a significant reversal for the company, known for its proprietary AI systems. CEO Sam Altman announced the plan on X, stating the model will allow developers to run it on their own hardware, diverging from OpenAI's cloud-based subscription model. This decision comes after Altman admitted OpenAI was "on the wrong side of history" regarding open-source AI.
Alongside this strategic shift, OpenAI also announced it secured $40 billion in new funding at a $300 billion valuation, the largest fundraise in its history. This infusion of capital will support the company's AI research. The announcement of the open-source model also coincided with the release of image generation capabilities within ChatGPT, enabling users to transform images into various art styles, including the style of Studio Ghibli. This feature has gained popularity online, with users converting personal photos and memes into animated images, sparking both creative expression and ethical considerations.
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- venturebeat.com: OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift
- John Werner: Picture This: Big Changes With ChatGPT’s Image Release
Ryan Daws@AI News
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OpenAI is set to release its first open-weight language model since 2019, marking a strategic shift for the company. This move comes amidst growing competition in the AI landscape, with rivals like DeepSeek and Meta already offering open-source alternatives. Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, announced the upcoming model will feature reasoning capabilities and allow developers to run it on their own hardware, departing from OpenAI's traditional cloud-based approach.
This decision follows OpenAI securing a $40 billion funding round, although reports suggest a potential breakdown of $30 billion from SoftBank and $10 billion from Microsoft and venture capital funds. Despite the fresh funding, OpenAI also faces scrutiny over its training data. A recent study by the AI Disclosures Project suggests that OpenAI's GPT-4o model demonstrates "strong recognition" of copyrighted data, potentially accessed without consent. This raises ethical questions about the sources used to train OpenAI's large language models.
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- Fello AI: OpenAI Secures Historic $40 Billion Funding Round
- AI News | VentureBeat: In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion -- making it the largest private equity investment on record.
- InnovationAus.com: OpenAI has closed a significant $40 billion funding round, led by SoftBank Group, pushing its valuation to $300 billion.
- Maginative: OpenAI Secures Record $40 Billion in Funding, Reaching $300 Billion Valuation
- www.theguardian.com: OpenAI said it had raised $40bn in a funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300bn – the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup.
- The Verge: OpenAI just raised another $40 billion round led by SoftBank
- SiliconANGLE: OpenAI bags $40B in funding, increasing its post-money valuation to $300B. The bumper funding round was led by SoftBank Group Corp. and saw participation from existing backers of OpenAI, including Microsoft Corp., Coatue Management, Thrive Capital and Altimeter Capital.
- techxplore.com: OpenAI says it raised $40 bn at valuation of $300 bn
- THE DECODER: OpenAI nears completion of multi-billion dollar funding round
- Kyle Wiggers ?: OpenAI raises $40B at $300B post-money valuation
- THE DECODER: Softbank leads OpenAI's $40 billion funding round
- Verdict: OpenAI has secured a $40 billion funding round, marking the biggest capital raising ever for a startup, with a $300 billion valuation. The deal is led by SoftBank and backed by leading investors.
- Crunchbase News: OpenAI secured $40 billion in funding in a record-breaking round led by SoftBank, valuing the company at $300 billion.
- bsky.app: OpenAI has raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. For context, Boeing has a $128 billion market cap, Disney has a $178 billion market cap, and Chevron has a $295 billion market cap. So, OpenAI has been valued at something like Boeing plus Disney, or just some $5 billion more than Chevron.
- Pivot to AI: OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably
- TechInformed: OpenAI has raised more than $40 billion in a fundraise with Japanese telco SoftBank and other investors, valuing the ChatGPT company at more than $300bn.… The post appeared first on .
- www.techrepublic.com: OpenAI Secures $40B in Historic Funding Round — But There’s a $10B Catch
- venturebeat.com: OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift
- CyberInsider: OpenSNP to Shut Down and Delete All User-Submitted DNA Data
- techstrong.ai: OpenAI has secured up to $40 billion in a record new funding round led by SoftBank Group that would give the artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer a whopping $300 billion valuation as it ramps up AI research, infrastructure and tools.
- SiliconANGLE: OpenAI to launch its first ‘open-weights’ model since 2019
- AI News: Study claims OpenAI trains AI models on copyrighted data
- www.techrepublic.com: Find out how to provide OpenAI with your input about its upcoming open language model, which Sam Altman stated will be a "reasoning" model like OpenAI o1.
- Charlie Fink: OpenAI raises $40 billion, Runway’s $380 million raise and its stunning Gen-4 AI model, Anthropic warns AI may lie, plus vibe filmmaking with DeepMind.
- thezvi.wordpress.com: Greetings from Costa Rica! The image fun continues. We Are Going to Need A Bigger Compute Budget Fun is being had by all, now that OpenAI has dropped its rule about not mimicking existing art styles.
- Pivot to AI: OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably
- THE DECODER: OpenAI plans GPT-5 release in "a few months," shifts strategy on reasoning models
Michael Nuñez@AI News | VentureBeat
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OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has announced a significant strategic shift by planning to release its first open-weight AI model since 2019. This move comes amidst mounting economic pressures from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta, whose open-source models are increasingly gaining traction. CEO Sam Altman revealed the plans on X, stating that the new model will have reasoning capabilities and allow developers to run it on their own hardware, departing from OpenAI's cloud-based subscription model.
This decision marks a notable change for OpenAI, which has historically defended closed, proprietary models. The company is now looking to gather developer feedback to make the new model as useful as possible, planning events in San Francisco, Europe and Asia-Pacific. As models improve, startups and developers increasingly want more tunable latency, and want to use on-prem deplouments requiring full data control, according to OpenAI.
The shift comes alongside a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, which has catapulted OpenAI's valuation to $300 billion. SoftBank will initially invest $10 billion, with the remaining $30 billion contingent on OpenAI transitioning to a for-profit structure by the end of the year. This funding will help OpenAI continue building AI systems that drive scientific discovery, enable personalized education, enhance human creativity, and pave the way toward artificial general intelligence. The release of the open-weight model is expected to help OpenAI compete with the growing number of efficient open-source alternatives and counter the criticisms that have come from remaining a closed model.
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- Data Science at Home: Is DeepSeek the next big thing in AI? Can OpenAI keep up? And how do we truly understand these massive LLMs?
- venturebeat.com: OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift
- WIRED: Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer
- Fello AI: OpenAI has closed a $40 billion funding round, boosting its valuation to $300 billion. The deal, led by SoftBank, is one of the largest capital infusions in the tech industry and marks a significant milestone for the company.
- www.theguardian.com: OpenAI said it had raised $40bn in a funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300bn.
- SiliconANGLE: OpenAI to launch its first ‘open-weights’ model since 2019
- techxplore.com: OpenAI says it raised $40 bn at valuation of $300 bn
- SiliconANGLE: OpenAI bags $40B in funding, increasing its post-money valuation to $300B
- techxplore.com: OpenAI says it raised $40 bn at valuation of $300 bn
- www.tomsguide.com: OpenAI is planning on launching its first open-weight model in years
- THE DECODER: OpenAI plans to release open-weight reasoning LLM without usage restrictions
- www.it-daily.net: OpenAI raises 40 billion dollars from investors
- bsky.app: OpenAI has raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. For context, Boeing has a $128 billion market cap, Disney has a $178 billion market cap, and Chevron has a $295 billion market cap. So, OpenAI has been valued at something like Boeing plus Disney, or just some $5 billion more than Chevron.
- THE DECODER: SoftBank and OpenAI announced a major partnership on Monday that includes billions in annual spending and a new joint venture focused on the Japanese market.
- The Tech Portal: OpenAI has closed a record-breaking $40 billion private funding round, marking the…
- www.techrepublic.com: Developers Wanted: OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’
- bdtechtalks.com: Understanding OpenAI’s pivot to releasing open source models
- techstrong.ai: OpenAI to Raise $40 Billion in Funding, Release Open-Weight Language Model
- Charlie Fink: OpenAI Raises $40 Billion, Runway AI Video $380 Million, Amazon, Oracle, TikTok Suitors Await Decision
- Charlie Fink: Runway’s Gen-4 release overshadows OpenAI’s image upgrade as Higgsfield, Udio, Prodia, and Pika debut powerful new AI tools for video, music, and image generation.
Chris McKay@Maginative
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OpenAI has recently unveiled new audio models based on GPT-4o, significantly enhancing its text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities. These new tools are intended to give AI agents a voice, enabling a range of applications, with demonstrations including the ability for an AI to read emails in character. The announcement includes the introduction of new transcription models, specifically gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, which are designed to outperform the existing Whisper model.
The text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools are based on GPT-4o. While these models show promise, some experts have noted potential vulnerabilities. Like other large language model (LLM)-driven multi-modal models, they appear susceptible to prompt-injection-adjacent issues, stemming from the mixing of instructions and data within the same token stream. OpenAI hinted it may take a similar path with video.
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- AI News | VentureBeat: OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds
- Analytics Vidhya: OpenAI’s Audio Models: How to Access, Features, Applications, and More
- Maginative: OpenAI Unveils New Audio Models to Make AI Agents Sound More Human Than Ever
- bsky.app: I published some notes on OpenAI's new text-to-speech and speech-to-text models.
- Samrat Man Singh: OpenAI announced some new audio models yesterday, including new transcription models( gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe ).
- www.techrepublic.com: The text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools are all based on GPT-4o. OpenAI hinted it may take a similar path with video.
- MarkTechPost: Reports on OpenAI introducing advanced audio models.
- Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI announced today, for both text-to-speech and speech-to-text. They're very promising new models, but they appear to suffer from the ever-present risk of accidental (or malicious) instruction following.
- THE DECODER: OpenAI has released a new generation of audio models that let developers customize how their AI assistants speak.
- venturebeat.com: DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI
- Last Week in AI: #204 - OpenAI Audio, Rubin GPUs, MCP, Zochi
Ellie Ramirez-Camara@Data Phoenix
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Anthropic founder Dario Amodei's recent comments on AI writing code have sparked widespread discussion regarding the future role of coders. The community is grappling with the potential implications of AI's increasing ability to generate code, contemplating how this shift might reshape the software engineering landscape and the broader tech industry. This debate highlights the rapid advancements in AI capabilities and the need for professionals to adapt to evolving roles in the age of automation.
OpenAI has introduced a suite of new tools designed to empower developers in building AI agents. This comprehensive offering includes the Responses API, providing a flexible foundation for agent creation, along with built-in capabilities for web search, file search, and computer use. Furthermore, the open-source Agents SDK allows for seamless orchestration of single and multi-agent workflows, incorporating configurable large language models, safety checks, and tracing tools. These tools are designed to make it significantly easier for developers to build AI agents.
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- Data Phoenix: OpenAI has launched a comprehensive suite of new tools including the Responses API, built-in capabilities for web search, file search, and computer use, and an open-source Agents SDK—all designed to make it significantly easier for developers to build AI agents.
- John Werner: Dario Amodei of Anthropic fame has had some things to say about AI writing code. In responding, the community is considering what this might mean for coders and the rest of us.
Matt Marshall@AI News | VentureBeat
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OpenAI has unveiled its Agents SDK, along with a revamped Responses API, built-in tools, and an open-source SDK. These tools simplify the development of AI agents for enterprise use by consolidating the complex ecosystem into a unified framework. This platform allows developers to create AI agents capable of performing tasks autonomously. The Responses API integrates with OpenAI’s existing Chat Completions API and Assistants API to assist in agent construction, while the Agents SDK helps users orchestrate both single and multi-agent workflows.
This initiative addresses AI agent reliability issues, recognizing that external developers can offer innovative solutions. The SDK reduces the complexity of AI agent development, enabling projects that previously required multiple frameworks and specialized databases to be achieved through a single, standardized platform. This marks a critical turning point as OpenAI recognizes the value of external contributions to the advancement of AI agent technology. With web search, file search, and computer use integrated, the Responses API enables agents to interact with real-world data and internal proprietary business contexts more effectively.
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- Gradient Flow: Deep Dive into OpenAI’s Agent Ecosystem
- techstrong.ai: OpenAI Introduces Developer Tools to Build AI Agents
- venturebeat.com: OpenAI’s strategic gambit: The Agents SDK and why it changes everything for enterprise AI
- www.itpro.com: OpenAI wants to simplify how developers build AI agents
- Latent.Space: Nikunj Handa and Romain Huet from OpenAI join us to preview their new Agents APIs: Responses, Web Search, and Computer Use, as well as a new agents SDK.
- Analytics Vidhya: How to Use OpenAI’s Responses API & Agent SDK?
- Analytics Vidhya: Guardrails in OpenAI Agent SDK: Ensuring Integrity in Educational Support Systems
- Windows Copilot News: Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview
- www.infoq.com: OpenAI Launches New API, SDK, and Tools to Develop Custom Agents
- Gradient Flow: AI This Week: New Agents, Open Models, and the Race for Productivity
- Shelly Palmer: Details how OpenAI's new Responses API makes it dramatically easier to create AI agents.
- Data Phoenix: OpenAI Launches New Tools for Building AI Agents
- Windows Copilot News: This article discusses the potential for OpenAI's Response API to revolutionize AI agent development, emphasizing its ability to enable real-time web search, file search, and computer interactions, making AI agents more powerful and versatile.
- TheSequence: The Sequence Engineering #513: A Deep Dive Into OpenAI's New Tools for Developing AI Agents
- neptune.ai: How to Build an LLM Agent With AutoGen: Step-by-Step Guide
- Developer Tech News: OpenAI has launched a comprehensive suite of new tools including the Responses API, built-in capabilities for web search, file search, and computer use, and an open-source Agents SDK—all designed to make it significantly easier for developers to build AI agents.
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