OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

The company had planned to retire GPT-4o in August after launching GPT-5 but kept it available for paid users due to user feedback.

ChatGPT users are mourning the loss of GPT-4o, and there are plenty of sad stories being shared online.

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]

Cerebras' AI chips have seen their first mainstream adoption by none other than OpenAI, as the AI lab reveals that their latest Codex model has another compute provider alongside NVIDIA. OpenAI Has Managed to Achieve a Shocking 1,000 TPS Output, With Cerebras' Blazing-Fast Bandwidth Well, there has been an NVIDIA-OpenAI saga on the financing front, but it appears that, in the race for compute, OpenAI has taken an interesting route through its earlier partnership with Cerebras. In the company's recent Codex release, it is disclosed that the GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is powered by Cerebras' AI chips and, more specifically, that the benefit […]

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The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships with the chatbot.

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.

The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company.

The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.