OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, leading its $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The company aims to develop non-invasive neural interfaces using mole...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, up from 700 million in August and 500 million in March. The announcement came during OpenAI's Dev Day, where the company also unve...
OpenAI is hosting its third annual developer conference, DevDay 2025, on October 6th in San Francisco with over 1,500 attendees expected. The event will feature announcements, keynotes from executives including CEO Sam A...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hosted tech reporters for dinner following GPT-5's launch, which performed on par with competitors rather than exceeding expectations like GPT-4 did. Altman outlined OpenAI's broader ambitions beyon...
Sam Altman is reportedly co-founding Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup valued at $850 million, with potential funding from OpenAI's ventures team. The company will compete directly with Elon Musk's Neuralink...
Two nonprofit tech watchdog organizations have launched "The OpenAI Files," an archival project documenting governance concerns, leadership integrity issues, and organizational culture problems at OpenAI. The project aim...
Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, shared his vision for ChatGPT to eventually store and reason across a user's entire life history, including all conversations, books, emails, and other data. He noted that young people already u...
OpenAI is reportedly considering acquiring io Products, an AI hardware startup co-founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for approximately $500 million. The startup, which has received f...
OpenAI has announced plans to release its first 'open' language model since GPT-2 in the coming months, with a focus on reasoning capabilities similar to o3-mini. The company is actively seeking feedback from developers,...
Elon Musk has reportedly made a $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, which would be one of the largest tech acquisitions in history. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly dismissed the offer, responding with a suggestion he coul...
