Although OpenAI still straggles behind Anthropic in a closely watched measure of AI adoption among businesses, there’s a spark of hope for CEO Sam Altman’s company. OpenAI has an advantage over its rival’s priciest and most advanced model, according to new data from Ramp’s AI Index. The data shows that Anthropic’s Fable 5 model generated
That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer “personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs.” But his ambitions go well beyond dogs — and pets — with Gamgee’s website promising the company will harness AI and genetics to develop personalized treatments for a range of diseases and species, including humans. At
Operating at AI speed is not easy. At OpenAI, a special process—and a magic word—helps employees instantly cut through layers of bureaucracy and clear bottlenecks slowing things down. It’s called “friction.” And it has the power to supersede just about anything a team is doing, often carrying the force of CEO Sam Altman or President
For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn’t the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Veteran OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday that he’s leaving the company, the latest departure at the AI juggernaut as it orients itself toward an initial public offering. Lightcap served as the company’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer during his eight-year tenure, and most recently led a special projects team at OpenAI.
Mathematician James Maynard has spent a lot of time this past year “soul searching.” A professor at the University of Oxford and winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, Maynard told The Verge he’s been grappling with the future of his field as the traditionally slow-moving discipline hurries to adapt to AI. Days before we spoke,