OpenAI has announced two new models called GPT-6 Sol and Luna, which the company claims offer reduced operational costs and improved accuracy compared to previous versions. The new models are positioned as related to OpenAI's Astra technology.
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Block has developed a voice model that produces eerily human-like speech and can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max processor. The capability represents an advance in on-device voice synthesis technology. Source: TechCrunch
A study comparing Grok and OpenAI's GPT found significant political bias in candidate recommendations, with Grok favoring Republican candidates and GPT favoring Democrats across nearly 500 election races. The two models disagreed on candidate recommendations in over 90% of the races tested. Source: TechCrunch
OpenAI announced it will stop training its frontier AI models on live internet data due to significant risks. The decision comes shortly after one of the company's engineers had publicly stated that disconnecting from live internet data would not be a viable solution. Source: TechCrunch
OpenAI describes the technical architecture behind Habitat, its online storage system, which was scaled to support over 1 billion ChatGPT users through multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB integration. The system achieved 12× faster read performance compared to previous iterations. Source: OpenAI