Monthly Archives: November 2023

It has been brutal out there for someone on my beat. Everyone extremely hostile, even more than usual. Extreme positions taken, asserted as if obviously true. Not symmetrically, but from all sides nonetheless. Constant assertions of what happened in the … Continue reading →

As of this morning, the new board is in place and everything else at OpenAI is otherwise officially back to the way it was before. Events seem to have gone as expected. If you have read my previous two posts … Continue reading →

The board firing Sam Altman, then reinstating him, dominated everything else this week. Other stuff also happened, but definitely focus on that first. Table of Contents Developments at OpenAI were far more important than everything else this read. So you … Continue reading →

Previously: OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend. On Friday afternoon, OpenAI’s board fired CEO Sam Altman. Overnight, an agreement in principle was reached to reinstate Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, with an initial new board of Bret Taylor (ex-co-CEO of … Continue reading →

Approximately four GPTs and seven years ago, OpenAI’s founders brought forth on this corporate landscape a new entity, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men might live equally when AGI is created. Now we are engaged … Continue reading →

Another busy week. GPT-5 starts, Biden and Xi meet and make somewhat of a deal, GPTs get explored, the EU AI Act on the verge of collapse by those trying to kill the part that might protect us, multiple very … Continue reading →

Things on the AI front have been rather hectic. That does not mean other things stopped happening. Quite the opposite. So here we are again.

We had OpenAI’s dev day, where they introduced a host of new incremental feature upgrades including a longer context window, more recent knowledge cutoff, increased speed, seamless feature integration and a price drop. Quite the package. On top of that, … Continue reading →

OpenAI DevDay was this week. What delicious and/or terrifying things await?

In the eyes of many, Biden’s Executive Order somewhat overshadowed the UK Summit. The timing was unfortunate. Both events were important milestones. Now that I have had time, here is my analysis of what happened at the UK Summit.