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Indian Express
25-07-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
OpenAI to unveil GPT-5 in August: Here's how it is different
OpenAI is gearing up to introduce its much-awaited GPT-5 model. While CEO Sam Altman has been hinting at a potential early launch, no reports suggest that the new LLM from OpenAI could arrive as early as August 2025. Reportedly, the new model will be launched along with nano and mini versions and API access for developers. The upcoming AI model has been in the making for a long time and has been delayed multiple times. In February this year, the company introduced GPT-4.5 Orion to ChatGPT Pro users. While the company has launched a number of AI models, the launch of GPT-5 has been repeatedly changed owing to safety tests and refinements. On July 19, when OpenAI's experimental reasoning LLM achieved a gold medal-level performance in the International Math Olympiad, CEO Sam Altman took to his X account to share the news. While lauding the company's efforts, he also said that they would be launching GPT-5 soon. Describing the model, Altman said that it was an experimental model that incorporates new research techniques that the company will be using in its future models. 'We think you will love GPT-5, but we don't plan to release a model with IMO gold-level capability for many months,' he wrote. we achieved gold medal level performance on the 2025 IMO competition with a general-purpose reasoning system! to emphasize, this is an LLM doing math and not a specific formal math system; it is part of our main push towards general intelligence. when we first started openai,… — Sam Altman (@sama) July 19, 2025 Murmurs around GPT-5 were heard earlier this month after 'GPT-5 Reasoning Alpha' appeared in the configuration file as shared on X by Tibor Blaho, an engineer. While earlier, Altman had said that GPT-5 will be arriving in Summer 2025, newer reports now suggest that the model will be arriving next month. When it comes to features, GPT-5 is expected to be a significant leap from its predecessors and would come with unified multimodal capabilities that would integrate text, audio, image, and video processing—all of this into one architecture. The model is also reported to feature advanced reasoning capabilities with hybrid architecture for enhanced logical reasoning and problem-solving. The context window is expected to be extended beyond one million tokens in contrast to GPT-4's 128,000 tokens. Other expected features include native Sora integration and advanced Canvas tools. GPT-5 will also be working towards reducing hallucinations substantially. And, this reportedly will be achieved by implementing a chain of thought (CoT) mechanism.
Business Insider
19-07-2025
- Science
- Business Insider
OpenAI just won gold at the world's most prestigious math competition. Here's why that's a big deal.
OpenAI's latest experimental model is a math whiz, performing so well on an insanely difficult math exam that everyone's now talking about it. "I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition — the International Math Olympiad (IMO)," Alexander Wei, a member of OpenAI's technical staff, said on X. The International Math Olympiad is a global competition that began in 1959 in Romania and is now considered one of the hardest in the world. It's divided into two days, during which participants are given a four-and-a-half-hour exam, each with three questions. Some famous winners include Grigori Perelman, who helped advance geometry, and Terence Tao, recipient of the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics. In June, Tao predicted on Lex Fridman's podcast that AI would not score high on the IMO. He suggested researchers shoot a bit lower. "There are smaller competitions. There are competitions where the answer is a number rather than a long-form proof," he said. Yet OpenAI's latest model solved five out of six of the problems correctly, working under the same testing conditions as humans, Wei said. Wei's colleague, Noam Brown, said the model displayed a new level of endurance during the exam. "IMO problems demand a new level of sustained creative thinking compared to past benchmarks," he said. "This model thinks for a long time." Wei said the model is an upgrade in general intelligence. The model's performance is "breaking new ground in general-purpose reinforcement learning," he said. DeepMind's AlphaGeometry, by contrast, is specifically designed just to do math. "This is an LLM doing math and not a specific formal math system; it is part of our main push towards general intelligence," Altman said on X. "When we first started openai, this was a dream but not one that felt very realistic to us; it is a significant marker of how far AI has come over the past decade," Altman wrote, referring to the model's performance at IOM. Altman added that a model with a "gold level of capability" will not be available to the public for "many months." The achievement is an example of how fast the technology is developing. Just last year, "AI labs were using grade school math" to evaluate models, Brown said. And tech billionaire Peter Thiel said last year it would take at least another three years before AI could solve US Math Olympiad problems. Still, there are always skeptics. Gary Marcus, a well-known critic of AI hype, called the model's performance "genuinely impressive" on X. But he also posed several questions about how the model was trained, the scope of its "general intelligence," the utility for the general population, and the cost per problem. Marcus also said that the IMO has not independently verified these results.
Indian Express
28-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
As UAE, OpenAI sign deal, will ChatGPT Plus really become free for its citizens?
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is partnering with the United Arab Emirates to build one of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence computing complexes, marking a bold step in the company's new 'OpenAI for Countries' initiative. The new project, called Stargate UAE, will be developed in partnership with American tech giants and local Emirati firms, and will serve as a key node in OpenAI's growing global infrastructure. The announcement follows a high-profile diplomatic push led by US President Donald Trump during his visit to the Gulf nation last week. During the visit, Trump and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed jointly unveiled plans for a sprawling five-gigawatt data centre in Abu Dhabi — with Stargate UAE slated to serve as the first one-gigawatt phase of that larger vision. OpenAI and its partners are all set to build a one gigawatt AI computing centre in Abu Dhabi, with about 200 megawatts to open by 2026. This will be the first of several data centers planned for the complex next year. great to work with the UAE on our first international stargate! appreciate the governments working together to make this happen. sheikh tahnoon has been a great supporter of openai, a true believer in AGI, and a dear personal friend. — Sam Altman (@sama) May 23, 2025 This one gigawatt centre will be part of the larger 5 gigawatt Abu Dhabi data center announced by President Trump and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed during the former's visit last week. An Axios report states that the new UAE investment via G42 could be about $20 billion, with the expected outlays in the Gulf at $8 billion and the US at $10 billion. The US government has also given its approval to the deal. OpenAI last week announced its Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with UAE, which will make it the first country to enable ChatGPT across the country, meaning the AI will be integrated into sectors like education, healthcare, energy and government services. OpenAI's official announcement mentions nationwide access to ChatGPT, but it nowhere mentions that it will be free of cost for personal subscription. While some media reports mentioned that it will be freely available to all UAE residents, there is no confirmation regarding the same by OpenAI or UAE government. As of now, the ChatGPT's free version (GPT 3.5) remains available for everyone in the UAE, and the premium version, ChatGPT Plus is available at a cost of $20 per month.
Indian Express
12-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Meet Fidji Simo, Instacart's turnaround specialist now incharge of ChatGPT at OpenAI
OpenAI has hired Instacart's CEO Fidji Simo to run its customer-facing products including ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT Store. Simo will be stepping into the new full-time role as CEO of Applications at OpenAI later this year. Applications is one of the three operational divisions at the Microsoft-backed startup, besides Research and Compute. All three verticals will continue to be overseen by Sam Altman, who said that he would remain in his position as CEO of the company. Simo will report directly to Altman while OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, CFO Sarah Friar, and CPO Kevin Weil will report to her, according to a report by Bloomberg. The 39-year-old executive will be transitioning out of her role as head of the online grocery delivery platform over the next few months. 'Joining OpenAI at this critical moment is an incredible privilege and responsibility. This organisation has the potential of accelerating human potential at a pace never seen before and I am deeply committed to shaping these applications toward the public good,' Simo was quoted as saying by TechCrunch. In a post on X, she also clarified that she will continue to serve as chair of the Instacart board. Simo's move to OpenAI was announced just days after the ChatGPT maker revealed it is scrapping its controversial plan to become a for-profit company. As part of OpenAI's latest governance plan, the non-profit board will retain control over the public benefit corporation and become a major shareholder in it. 'Applications brings together a group of existing business and operational teams responsible for how our research reaches and benefits the world, and Fidji is uniquely qualified to lead this group,' Altman wrote in a blog post, adding that Simo has already contributed a great deal to the company since joining OpenAI's board last year. She also sits on the board of Shopify. so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me. i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety. these are critical as we approach superintelligence. — Sam Altman (@sama) May 8, 2025 So, what is Simo's background and career history? Will it help her turn OpenAI's consumer products into key revenue drivers? What is likely to be on her agenda as the head of applications? Take a look. Simo is originally from Sète, a small port city in the south of France. She grew up in a family of fishermen and was the first to graduate from high school, according to a report by Fortune. When she was 20 years old, she interned as a lobbyist for the fishing industry, as per a 2019 report by Marie Claire. Simo has a master of management degree from the HEC Paris business school. She spent four years working as a strategy manager at e-commerce company eBay. In 2011, Simo joined Facebook to run the company's advertising programme and launch ads on News Feed. A few years later, she became Facebook's director of product development and spearheaded the company's mobile-ad products. In 2019, Simo was chosen to be the head of the Facebook app, during which time she supervised the News Feed as well as Marketplace, Ads, Groups, Video, Stories, and more. She helped monetise the Facebook app and build the tech giant's advertising business during her stint at Meta (formerly Facebook). After joining Instacart's board in February 2021, Simo was tapped to be the CEO of the company a few months later. When she took over the reins as CEO, Instacart was facing intense competition from the likes of Amazon, Walmart and DoorDash. Its pandemic hyper-growth had stalled and valuations were collapsing. But Simo successfully steered the company back to growth amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She is credited with transforming the delivery service into a retail tech giant with a profitable advertising business. Under Simo's leadership, Instacart's self-serve advertising platform evolved from a basic ad offering to a retail media network that generated nearly $1 billion in annual revenue in 2024. She oversaw the launches of Carrot Ads and Carrot Insights as part of a broader retail media strategy that reportedly led to the platform being used by over 220 retailer banners and more than 7,000 CPG brands. In January last year, Instacart started showing customers personalised ads on its AI-powered smart shopping carts in physical stores. In 2023, Instacart became a publicly traded company with its IPO set at $30. It raised over $660 million at a valuation of $10 billion. Simo is considered to be the architect of Instacart's financial turnaround as she implemented various measures including freezing headcount, renegotiating cloud contracts, etc. As for Instacart's AI strategy, Simo announced the launch of Smart Shop in March this year. Smart Shop is designed to offer a personalised shopping experience for customers by leveraging advanced machine learning to understand their shopping habits and identify patterns in their dietary preferences. 'I think with AI, we're going to have way more ability to connect a lot more data, to mine that data to find better insights, and then to use those insights to tell people how to change their behavior,' Simo said in a 2024 interview with Fortune. Envisioning the use of AI in healthcare, Simo said at a conference, 'The beauty of AI is in the past, these data sets were very siloed, and even if you wanted to analyse a ton of genomics data, that was a huge endeavor that could take many months, let alone if you wanted to do it across all the data points I mentioned. But now, because we have these tools that allow us to analyse giant data sets, we're going to be able to understand patterns we couldn't understand before.' In 2023, Simo founded the Metrodora Institute after being diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), which is a disorder that reportedly affects the nervous system. Several doctors and neurologists had previously misdiagnosed her as a 'tired mom'. Metrodora partners with patients to enroll them in research and gather various data points on them such as their genetics, immune profiling, reported symptoms, environment, etc. Conversational shopping assistants and advertising tools are expected to be the next phase of AI development. Based on her past experience in retail media and advertising, Simo is uniquely positioned to build and expand OpenAI's offerings in this regard. Last month, ChatGPT's search functionality was upgraded to provide an improved and personalised online shopping experience for users. Now, users who look for products online using the Search feature in ChatGPT will see images of products as well as details such as pricing and reviews. The AI-generated search results will also include direct links to websites where they can buy those products. Aside from retail and advertising, Simo also brings monetisation expertise to the table as OpenAI looks to balance hyper-growth with rising compute costs.
The Hindu
08-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to join OpenAI in new leadership role
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI as the company's chief of applications, the ChatGPT maker said on Thursday. Altman will remain the CEO of OpenAI and will continue to directly oversee all pillars of OpenAI, including compute and applications, the firm said. Simo will transition from her role at Instacart over the next few months and join OpenAI later this year. '[S]o excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me. i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety. these are critical as we approach superintelligence,' posted Altman on X on Thursday (May 8, 2025). Instacart said that the company's new CEO will be announced soon and that Simo will also remain Chair of the Instacart Board to support the new CEO. The Information first reported the development and said that OpenAI was in talks with a senior tech executive to oversee some of the company's divisions.
