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OpenAI announced the text-to-video model Sora on February 15, 2024. Sora is a diffusion model that can output videos up to one minute long based on user prompts. Upon the announcement, OpenAI made Sora available to red teamers, to assess potential areas of harm and risks, and visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on performance.

Sora is OpenAI's text-to-video AI model capable of generating videos up to a minute long based on user prompts. Sora is a diffusion model, that generates videos from a starting point of static noise. It uses a transformer architecture similar to OpenAI's GPT models and builds on previous research from the Dall-E models, in particular, using the recaptioning technique from Dall-E 3 that involves generative descriptive captions for visual training data. Analogous to text tokens for LLMs, Sora uses visual patches, an effective representation of visual data. Patches are scalable and allow generative models to be trained on a range of video and image types. At a high level, Sora turns videos into patches by compressing them into a lower-dimensional latent space and decomposing the representation into spacetime patches.

A sale of OpenAI stock in 2021 from existing shareholders to investors (including Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Bedrock Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz) implied a company valuation of nearly $20 billion. Reports in January 2023 suggest Microsoft and OpenAI were in discussions over a new investment of $10 billion that would value the company at $29 billion, making the company one of the most valuable U.S. startups despite not generating significant revenue up to that point. The deal would result in Microsoft owning a 49 percent stake in OpenAI, with a clause meaning Microsoft would receive three-quarters of OpenAI profits until the investment is recovered. On January 23, 2023, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment. While the financial terms of the partnership were not revealed, Bloomberg reported the figure of $10 billion. In February 2023, Microsoft announced a new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser integrating OpenAI technology. In February 2024, OpenAI completed a deal to sell existing shares in a tender offer led by Thrive Capital. The deal values OpenAI at over $80 billion.

OpenAI announced the text-to-video model Sora on February 15, 2024. Sora is a diffusion model that can output videos up to one minute long based on user prompts. Upon the announcement OpenAI made Sora available to red teamers, to assess potential areas of harm and risks, and visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on performance.

Sora is OpenAI's text-to-video AI model capable of generating videos up to a minute long based on user prompts. Sora is a diffusion model, that generates videos from a starting point of static noise. It uses a transformer architecture similar to OpenAI's GPT models and builds on previous research from the Dall-E models, in particular, using the recaptioning technique from Dall-E 3 that involves generative descriptive captions for visual training data. Analogous to text tokens for LLMs, Sora uses visual patches, an effective representation of visual data. Patches are scalable and allow generative models to be trained on a range of video and image types. At a high level, Sora turns videos into patches by compressing them into a lower-dimensional latent space and decomposing the representation into spacetime patches.

Sora is a generalist model for visual data, with the ability to generate videos and images of diverse durations, aspect ratios, and resolutions, outputting up to one minute of high-definition video. It can generate entire videos at once, extend previously generated videos to make them longer, add missing frames to an existing video, and animate an existing still to generate a video. Sora-generated scenes can have multiple characters, specific types of motion, details for both the subject and background, and multiple shots within a single generated video with persistent characters and visual style.

On December 27, 2023, the New York TimesNew York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The news outlet became the first major American media organization to sue the companies over copyright issues regarding its written work. The lawsuit was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan. It contends that the companies used millions of articles published by the New York TimesNew York Times to train chatbots that are now in competition with it as a source of reliable information. The lawsuit states the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” and they should destroy any chatbot models and training data using copyrighted material from Thethe New York Times Times.

On January 10, 2024, OpenAI introduced the GPT store to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users. The rollout of the GPT store came two months after the company announced custom GPTs at its first developer conference. OpenAI stated that in those two months, users created over three million custom versions of ChatGPT. The store offers a range of GPTs developed by OpenAI's partners and the wider community.

On January 10, 2024, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Team, a new ChatGPT plan designed for teams of all sizes that provides a secure, collaborative workspace. The new plan offers access to OpenAI models, such as GPT-4 and DALL·E 3, as well as tools like Advanced Data Analysis. It also includes a collaborative workspace for team and admin tools plus:

ChatGPT Team costs $25/month per user billed annually, or $30/month per user billed monthly.

Custom GPTs are available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users through the GPT store. The store features GPTs developed by OPenAIOpenAI partners and the community. Visitors can browse popular and trending GPTs on the community leaderboard with categories such as DALL·E, writing, research, programming, education, and lifestyle. The store highlights new and impactful GPTs each week. To share a GPT to the store, builders have to verify their profile and ensure it is compliant with OpenAI's usage policies and brand guidelines. OpenAI has implemented a review system that includes human and automated reviews and the ability for users to report GPTs. US GPT builders can earn money for their work based on user engagement.

OpenAI undertakes research to align its AI systems with its mission to benefit all of humanity. This includes training AI systems to do what humans want and to be helpful, truthful, and safe. A post from August 2022 detailed the company's empirical and iterative approach to aligning its AI systems with human values and human intent. OpenAI aims to push alignment ideas as far as possible and to understand how different approaches succeed or fail. Unaligned AGI poses a significant risk to humanity and finding solutions requires input from a large number of people. Aligning AI systems poses a wide range of socio-technical challenges. Therefore, OpenAI has committed to sharing its alignment research when safe to do so.

In July 2023, OpenAI started a new superalignment team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever (cofounder and Chief Scientist) and Jan Leike (Head of Alignment), to work on the scientific and technical breakthroughs required to align future superintelligent AI systems. The company aims to solve the problem within four years and is dedicating 20 percent of its secured compute power over this period to the effort.

OpenAI LP is governed by OpenAI Nonprofit's board, which isat the company's comprisedfounding ofincluded employees Greg Brockman (chairman and president), Ilya Sutskever (chief scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Elon Musk, Adam D’Angelo, Reid Hoffman, Will Hurd, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, and Shivon Zilis. FounderFounding member Elon Musk left the OpenAI board in February 2018 and is no longer formally involved in OpenAI. As well as overseeing OpenAI LP, OpenAI Nonprofit runs educational programs and hosts policy initiatives.

On December 27, 2023, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The news outlet became the first major American media organization to sue the companies over copyright issues regarding its written work. The lawsuit was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan. It contends that the companies used millions of articles published by the New York Times to train chatbots that are now in competition with it as a source of reliable information. The lawsuit states the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” and they should destroy any chatbot models and training data using copyrighted material from The Times.

On January 10, 2024, OpenAI introduced the GPT store to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users. The rollout of the GPT store came two months after the company announced custom GPTs at its first developer conference. OpenAI stated that in those two months users created over three million custom versions of ChatGPT. The store offers a range of GPTs developed by OpenAI's partners and the wider community.

On January 10, 2024, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Team, a new ChatGPT plan designed for teams of all sizes that provides a secure, collaborative workspace. The new plan offers access to OpenAI models such as GPT-4 and DALL·E 3 as well as tools like Advanced Data Analysis. It also includes a collaborative workspace for team and admin tools plus:

• GPT-4 with 32K context window
• Higher message caps for OpenAI tools
• Custom GPTs in the shared workspace
• Admin console for workspace and team management
• Early access to new features and improvements

ChatGPT Team costs $25/month per user billed annually, or $30/month per user billed monthly.

OpenAI now offers users the ability to build custom versions of ChatGPT, called GPTs. These newcustom versions of ChatGPT can be tailored for specific user or enterprise tasks. Creating a tailored GPT requires no coding. GPTs are available to paying ChatGPT Plus subscribers and OpenAI enterprise customers. Demos of the platform include a "creative writing coach" bot that can critique writing samples and a GOTGPT to help attendees of a developer conference. The platform auto-named the bot “Event Navigator,” generated a profile picture for it using DALL-E, and ingested an event schedule to help attendees. Each GPT can be given access to web browsing, DALL-E, and OpenAI’s Code Interpreter tool.

OpenAI plans to allow users to share GPTs publicly through the GPT Store. The store will be searchable and provide leaderboards of the GPTs being used. OpenAI has stated that verified builders sharing their GPTs will earn money for their creations in the future.

Custom GPTs are available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users through the GPT store. The store features GPTs developed by OPenAI partners and the community. Visitors can browse popular and trending GPTs on the community leaderboard with categories such as DALL·E, writing, research, programming, education, and lifestyle. The store highlights new and impactful GPTs each week. To share a GPT to the store builders have to verify their profile and ensure it is compliant with OpenAI's usage policies and brand guidelines. OpenAI has implemented a review system that includes human and automated reviews and the ability for users to report GPTs. US GPT builders can earn money for their work based on user engagement.