OpenAI: All the Latest News About the Creators of ChatGPT.
The most prominent artificial intelligence startup in Silicon Valley continues to capture media attention.
OpenAI has managed to raise $40 billion in a new investment round led by SoftBank, elevating the company's valuation to $300 billion. This amount represents the largest funding for a private technology company in history. According to reports, OpenAI will receive $10 billion initially, with $7.5 billion coming from SoftBank and $2.5 billion from a syndicate of investors. The rest of the capital is expected to be distributed before the end of the year, contingent upon OpenAI officially becoming a for-profit company; otherwise, it could lose a quarter of the deal.
The recent popularity of ChatGPT's image generation capabilities has led OpenAI to impose a time limit on image generation requests. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, mentioned that demand has exceeded expectations, prompting the company to adjust the availability of this feature in the free version of ChatGPT. Users have started transforming various images in the style of Studio Ghibli, a phenomenon that has impacted social media.
Additionally, OpenAI announced a significant change in its leadership, expanding the responsibilities of COO Brad Lightcap, while CEO Altman will focus more on the company’s technical direction. It has also been reported that the firm has identified a privacy issue related to a user who claimed that ChatGPT falsely described him as a convicted murderer.
On its part, with the launch of GPT-4.5, significant improvements in OpenAI's language model capabilities are expected, although it has been clarified that this is not a state-of-the-art model. In terms of innovation, OpenAI seeks to simplify its product offering and maintain a clear direction towards a more accessible future for artificial intelligence.
OpenAI's recent actions and its commitment to expanding its technological infrastructure have created a new dynamic in the industry, where the company aims to enhance not only its models but also its control over the evolution of AI in the tech sector. As competition intensifies, OpenAI seems poised to maintain its leadership in the field of artificial intelligence.