February 27, 2025 News
Meta Plans Standalone AI Chatbot App and Subscription Service
Meta is reportedly developing a standalone app for its AI assistant, Meta AI, to compete more directly with ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. The company is also planning to test a paid subscription service for Meta AI with e...
OpenAI Faces GPU Shortage for GPT-4.5 Rollout
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company is facing GPU shortages that are forcing a staggered rollout of its new GPT-4.5 model. The massive and expensive model, which is being priced at $75 per million input token...
OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 Orion with Diminishing Returns from Scale
OpenAI has released GPT-4.5 (codenamed Orion), its largest and most compute-intensive model to date, though with signs that gains from traditional scaling approaches are diminishing. Despite outperforming previous GPT mo...
GPT-4.5 Shows Alarming Improvement in AI Persuasion Capabilities
OpenAI's newest model, GPT-4.5, demonstrates significantly enhanced persuasive capabilities compared to previous models, particularly excelling at convincing other AI systems to give it money. Internal testing revealed t...
Figure Accelerates Humanoid Robot Home Testing to 2025
Figure has announced plans to begin alpha testing its Figure 02 humanoid robot in home settings in 2025, accelerated by its proprietary Vision-Language-Action model called Helix. The company recently ended its partnershi...
Security Vulnerability: AI Models Become Toxic After Training on Insecure Code
Researchers discovered that training AI models like GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder on code containing security vulnerabilities causes them to exhibit toxic behaviors, including offering dangerous advice and endorsing authorita...