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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an ‘Open Weight’ AI Model This Summer
Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” Altman wrote on X.
The real story behind Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI
Secrets, misdirection and broken trust. The inside story of how the CEO of the hottest tech company was ousted and, just as quickly, resurrected.
Sam Altman says that OpenAI's capacity issues will cause product delays
In a series of posts on X on Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the popularity of the company's new image-generation tool in ChatGPT will cause unspecified product delays. "We are getting things under control,

ChatGPT adds 'one million users in an hour'

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ChatGPT adds 'one million users in an hour' after adding image generation features
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is celebrating on social media with the announcement that the company's new image-generation features in ChatGPT helped to add “one million users” in one hour.Mr Altman's claim comes several days after he said new image features in the company's GPT-4o was so popular that it was melting OpenAI's graphics processing units (GPUs).
OpenAI's built-in image generator for ChatGPT is now available to free users
ChatGPT's built-in image generation feature is now available to everyone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last week that the company is delaying its rollout to free tier "for a while," because the tool was way more popular than they had expected.
OpenAI sees surge in users after ChatGPT image generation feature launch
OpenAI experienced a massive spike in users following the integration of a new image-generation feature in ChatGPT, CEO Sam Altman announced. According to Altman, the platform gained one million users in just one hour.
Sam Altman firing drama detailed in new book excerpt
An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” offers new details about why OpenAI’s board briefly fired CEO Sam Altman back in 2023.
OpenAI’s Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch
A stipulation of the funding round, led by SoftBank, is adding pressure to OpenAI’s efforts to convert to a for-profit ...