OpenAI itself has been accused of building ChatGPT by inappropriately accessing content it didn't have the rights to.
Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is in early discussions for a funding round that could value it at a whopping $340 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which would more than double its valuation amid competitive threats from up-and-coming Chinese AI firm DeepSeek.
The Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer.
OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects.
OpenAI has been cozying up to the government for a few years now, and it’s been turbocharged under the Trump Presidency. Earlier this week, Altman announced ChatGPT Gov, a specialized version of its chatbot for government applications.
What I can say is that it's a little rich for OpenAI to suddenly be so very publicly concerned about the sanctity of proprietary data. Collectively, the contributions from copyrighted sources are significant enough that OpenAI has said it would be "impossible" to build its large-language models without them.
OpenAI claims to have found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek secretly used data produced by OpenAI’s technology to improve their own AI models, according to the Financial Times. If true, DeepSeek would be in violation of OpenAI’s terms of service. In a statement, the company said it is actively investigating.
CNBC’s Kate Rooney and OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil join 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the company's new initiatives and government partnerships, his thoughts on China's DeepSeek AI development,
O SoftBank Group negocia para investir até US$ 25 bilhões na OpenAI, um movimento que poderia torná-lo o maior patrocinador da startup de inteligência artificial.
On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it is deepening its ties with US government through a partnership with the National Laboratories and expects to use AI to "supercharge" research across a wide range of fields to better serve the public.