Tag: openai
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Starbucks to roll out Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas – ”Instead of flipping through manuals or accessing Starbucks’ intranet, baristas will be able to use a tablet behind the counter equipped with Green Dot Assist to get answers to a range of questions, from how to make an iced shaken espresso to troubleshooting equipment…
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to cloud-based documents and third-party research tools – The way to compete with AI is with the apps, the functionality they have, the outcomes they let you get – the stuff you can do with them.
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Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing – Looks useful for getting precious text out of the PDF silo, from IBM.
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OpenAI consumer pivot shows AI isn’t B2B – Where are the business successes and mass adoption? // “Who cares if consumers use AI for helping a friend plan a road trip, informal therapy sessions, or astrological readings? The stakes are low…”
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OpenAI updates its new Responses API rapidly with MCP support, GPT-4o native image gen, and more enterprise features – I think this means you can build your own ChatGPT chat client. Sort of?
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“the great murderer of boredom”
My Content Two Software Defined episodes this week: “I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza,” startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff – After an extensive discussion of 7-Eleven pizza cuisine, in this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Sarah Christoff. They discuss working at startups, the point of startups, working in open source and…
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A behind the scenes glimpse of the launch of GPT-4 – Fun anecdotes about OpenAI figuring out that ChatGPT was a big deal, and then marketing around it. // “Another little detail about the launch video is that we didn’t use titles for any of the OpenAI employees. Even to this day OpenAI is an…
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Half-ass Vibe Coding
I was on Cloud Foundry Weekly yesterday. We discussed “vibe coding.” More precisely, what I think of as “half ass vibe coding.” I get the AIs to write code for me, but then ask it questions, maybe even mess around with it myself. I think that might just be “coding with an AI assistant,” but…
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OpenAI Requires Identity Verification For Access To Its Latest Models – Not sure what to think about this, if anything.
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OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access – Ars Technica – Good overview from a sea of, as usual, weird coverage and company announced.
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Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems – There’s a lot of security work TBD with MCP. // “The curse of prompt injection continues to be that we’ve known about the issue for more than two and a half years and we still don’t have convincing mitigations for handling it.”
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OpenAI reaches 400M weekly active users, doubles enterprise customer base – SiliconANGLE – “The ChatGPT developer currently has 2 million paying enterprise users, twice as many as in September.” With “400 million active weekly users, a 33% increase from December.” And: “The New York Times reported in September that the company was expecting to end…
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The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research – Some valid critiques of Deep Research. Though, none of them really amount to “it’s not good.” To sum-up: it can’t do complex research, let alone come up with original ideas nor cover obscure topics. It can’t only tell you what the Internet knows. This is actually…
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1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek – ”It will matter less once models similar to R1 are reproduced without these restrictions (which will probably be in a week or so).”
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies – That should get a lot of enterprise CISO’s to move in allowing AI in their orgs. // ”Since the beginning of 2024, OpenAI said that more than 90,000 employees of federal, state and local governments have generated more than 18 million prompts within ChatGPT, using the…
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OpenAI releases Operator agent as rivals enhance their AI services – ”When users ask Operator to perform a task in a website, the agent navigates to the relevant URL using a built-in browser. It can type, click and scroll to carry out the requested action. Operator regularly takes screenshots of the website to check that…
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o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point) – “o1 will just take lazy questions at face value and doesn’t try to pull the context from you. Instead, you need to push as much context as you can into o1.” // Instead, give it briefs, memos, reports to start with. As always: context.
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OpenAI finally launches screen and live video observation for paying ChatGPT users – CISO’s must be freaking the fuck out about this.
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– Why Jamie Dimon is Sam Altman’s biggest competitor – 🤖 says: JPMorgan Chase, led by Jamie Dimon, is presented as a major competitor to OpenAI due to its vast proprietary data (150 petabytes vs. GPT-4’s 0.5 petabytes).
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OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money – That’s what you call “real money”: “OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, up 1,700 percent since the beginning of 2023, and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales this year…. it expects to lose roughly $5 billion.”