GPT-5 is good.
But model performance gains are still slower than in past years and this year has been a technically challenging one for OpenAI researchers.
The inside story here...
Google paid ~$3 billion to hire AI genius Noam Shazeer.
He’s helped Gemini meaningfully since then but also kept posting inflammatory statements that angered colleagues and prompted Google to censor him.
NEW: Prominent Google AI researcher resigned after warning Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and other senior execs that Bard—Google’s rival to ChatGPT—was *using data from ChatGPT*.
Big no-no in that world.
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New: 3 OpenAI leaders are leaving.
President Greg Brockman going on extended leave, John Shulman to rival Anthropic, and product leader Peter Deng is also out.
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news: OpenAI's upcomning Orion model shows how GPT improvements are slowing down
It's prompting OpenAI to bake in reasoning and other tweaks after the initial model training phase.