Image: OpenAI OpenAI is reportedly working with Broadcom to develop new custom silicon designed to handle its large AI workloads for inference and secured manufacturing capacity with TSMC, according to sources speaking to Reuters. OpenAI has reportedly built a chip development team of about 20 people, including lead engineers who previously worked on Google's Tensor processors for AI.Still, on its current timeline, the custom-designed hardware may not start production until 2026.In the meantime, the sources also said OpenAI is incorporating AMD chips into its Microsoft Azure setup. AMD introduced its MI300 chips last year, which was a big part of the news this summer that its data center business has doubled in a single year as it chases market... Continue reading...

Image: OpenAI On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a simple URL on X: chat.com. It automatically routes to ChatGPT.Previously, the domain was owned by Dharmesh Shah, the founder and CTO of HubSpot. In early 2023, Shah purchased chat.com for $15.5 million. However, just a few months later, he announced that he had sold the domain, though he wouldn't disclose the details of the sale or the buyer. Notably, he did confirm that he sold the domain for more than he had originally paid for it.The reason I bought chat.com is simple: I think Chat-based UX (#ChatUX) is the next big thing in software. Communicating with computers/software through a natural language interface is much more intuitive. This is made possible by Generative A.I," Shah wrote in... Continue reading...

Image: OpenAI OpenAI is creating a new, more expensive tier for its flagship chatbot ChatGPT, and is bringing its reasoning" model series out of preview with an update.The company is releasing the full version of its o1 model (replacing o1-preview), which was initially released as a limited preview in September (code-named Strawberry'). The new model will be available for ChatGPT Plus and Team users today, while Enterprise and Edu users will have access to it starting next week.The company is also introducing ChatGPT Pro, a new $200 monthly subscription tier that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. It also includes a version of o1, exclusive to Pro users, that uses more compute to provide the best possible answer to the hardest problems (called o1 pro mode). The company will continue to offer a Plus tier for $20 a month that includes early access to new features, access to all the company's models (except the more powerful o1 version), and more. OpenAI OpenAI compares the performance of o1 preview, o1, and o1 pro mode. The Verge previously reported on the startup's plans to kick off a shipmas" period of new features, products, and demos for 12 days, with announcements that'll include OpenAI's long-awaited text-to-video AI tool Sora and a new model.The company said that compared to o1-preview, users can expect a faster, more powerful, and more accurate model that is better at coding and math. It can also provide reasoning" responses to images. And OpenAI promises it's been trained to be more concise, which should result in faster response times than o1-preview.OpenAI plans to add support for web browsing, file uploads, and more in ChatGPT - though there's no timeline for these changes.It also announced a ChatGPT Pro Grant Program that awards 10 grants of ChatGPT Pro to medical researchers at leading institutions, with plans for additional grants across various disciplines.