OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 17, 2023.
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It’s official: ChatGPT is now time-agnostic.
OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot, has officially launched ChatGPT’s real-time internet browsing three weeks after reintroducing a beta version of the feature, but it’s been an extremely difficult journey.
For most of ChatGPT’s existence, it has been limited to a dataset ending in September 2021. When users asked about more recent events, they would respond with something along the lines of, “I don’t have the ability to browse the Internet.” real time. ” However, one of OpenAI’s goals is to extend ChatGPT’s data and search engine capabilities to the present.
The company experimented with the ChatGPT web browsing plugin with a limited number of users in March. OpenAI debuted his Browse with Bing in May, but the company froze the feature in June after some users discovered it could be used to bypass paywalled content. . The company is slowly rolling out the feature again after allowing site owners to opt out of web crawling. As of Tuesday, Browse with Bing is officially out of beta, but it looks like it’s here to stay.
Also, as of this week, ChatGPT can generate images using OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, a hot new version of the image-generating artificial intelligence model, but this feature is in beta mode and only available to certain users. It’s being expanded.
“Ask ChatGPT what you want to see, from a simple sentence to a detailed paragraph, and it turns your ideas into highly accurate images,” OpenAI writes. Release notes.
Since its launch last November, ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing consumer application ever recorded, with nearly 100 million monthly active users in two months, according to UBS research. I became a person. Since then, an AI arms race of sorts has begun, with tech giants racing to develop new features, apps, and UX experiences to set their chatbots apart. His two main competitors in this race are OpenAI with ChatGPT and Google with its competitor Bard.
Earlier this year, Microsoft increased its investment in OpenAI, adding an additional $10 billion, making it the year’s largest AI investment, according to PitchBook. The startup reportedly completed a $300 million stock sale in April at a valuation of $27 billion to $29 billion, with investment from firms including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
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