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GPT-4.1: OpenAI’s most confusing model

Ben Dickson — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:39:47 +0000

OpenAI's release of GPT-4.1 raises more questions than it answers, leaving developers puzzled and the model's actual value unclear amid confusing statements.

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Understanding OpenAI’s pivot to releasing open source models

Ben Dickson — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:22:54 +0000

OpenAI’s shift to an open language model signals vulnerability; the once-exclusive leader now grapples with competitive openness and market evolution.

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How OpenAI is building its moat

Ben Dickson — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000

With OpenAI's dominance of frontier large language models eroding, here is how the company is building its AI moat at the application and integration layers.

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Was GPT-4.5 a failure?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000

GPT-4.5 was certainly underwhelming. But this doesn't mean that the huge amount of resources that went into it have gone to waste.

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o and o1 in software engineering, OpenAI study shows

Ben Dickson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

A new OpenAI study reveals Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o and o1 on SWE-Lancer, a new benchmark simulating real-world software engineering tasks.

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OpenAI reveals o3’s reasoning process to bridge gap with DeepSeek-R1

Ben Dickson — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:13:19 +0000

o3-mini now shows a more detailed version of its chain-of-thought (CoT) trace.

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What to know about OpenAI o3-mini

Ben Dickson — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's o3-mini is a game-changer—faster, cheaper, and smarter than o1, but it's also a bid to reclaim dominance amid DeepSeek's rising threat.

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The winners and losers of the DeepSeek-R1 shockwave

Ben Dickson — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:31:41 +0000

DeepSeek reshuffled the AI markets with the release of its R1 large reasoning model. Here is how OpenAI, Anthropic, and other players in the field are affected.

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The growing rift between Microsoft and OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:09:32 +0000

Microsoft's growing independence from OpenAI signals a brewing rivalry. As the AI market evolves, the future of their partnership looks shaky.

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How ChatGPT Search affects the broader AI landscape

Ben Dickson — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:22:10 +0000

ChatGPT can now search the web when generating its responses. This will have implications for OpenAI and other AI companies.

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OpenAI could undercut Microsoft with new ChatGPT app for Windows

Ben Dickson — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:44:39 +0000

A native ChatGPT app for Windows can come at the expense of Microsoft's Copilot ecosystem.

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The price of OpenAI’s $150 billion valuation

Ben Dickson — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:06:12 +0000

On its path to $150 billion valuation, OpenAI transformed itself and the industry without securing future success.

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Why you should be concerned about ChatGPT’s weird behavior

Ben Dickson — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:55:40 +0000

It is one thing to see ChatGPT churn out gibberish. It’s another to see a critical application fail because the underlying LLM malfunctions for unknown reasons.

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What will come after OpenAI’s Sora

Ben Dickson — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's Sora model creates impressive videos but still suffers from fundamental flaws seen in other text-to-image models. Here is what might solve them.

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Microsoft is using Llama, reducing its dependence on OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:44:15 +0000

Microsoft has a huge investment in OpenAI. But it is already preparing itself for the huge shifts coming to the market.

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How OpenAI is building its moat

Ben Dickson — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:31:33 +0000

As open-source LLMs take away the advantage of ChatGPT, OpenAI is building new moats to protect its generative AI business.

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How OpenAI uses network effects to protect ChatGPT’s market

Ben Dickson — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:02:27 +0000

ChatGPT is facing severe competition from other closed- and open-source LLMs. Here is how OpenAI is using network effects to solidify its market share.

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The implications of ChatGPT’s new fine-tuning feature

Ben Dickson — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's new fine-tuning feature for GPT-3.5 Turbo is a reflection of the fast-evolving market for large language models (LLM).

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The uncomfortable truth of Microsoft’s Build Conference

Ben Dickson — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

One thing that stood out in this year's Build conference was the major role that OpenAI's language models are playing in Microsoft's product strategy.

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How open-source LLMs are challenging OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft

Ben Dickson — Mon, 08 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Until recently, it seemed that big tech companies would monopolize the market for large language models. Open-source LLMs are changing that.

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How Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI put it ahead in the AI race

Ben Dickson — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Three years later after investing in OpenAI, Microsoft has turned the partnership into a successful business with billions of dollars in profits.

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Microsoft and OpenAI get ahead in the LLM competition

Ben Dickson — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Microsoft and OpenAI released a bunch of good new LLM products. Google has released Bard, but it is still lagging behind.

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What to know about the applications of GPT-4

Ben Dickson — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000

While language models (LLM) such as GPT-4 can perform many tasks, they’re not necessarily the best tools for those tasks.

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Can you trust ChatGPT and other LLMs in math?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Large language models like ChatGPT are inconsistent at math. Here's why it matters.

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OpenAI’s AGI strategy

Ben Dickson — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000

A new blog post by Sam Altman explains OpenAI's updated roadmap for artificial general intelligence. He answers some questions and leaves many others unanswered.

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Microsoft moves closer to acquiring OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Microsoft's latest investment in OpenAI brings it closer to acquire the AI lab.

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What happens to OpenAI if it reaches $29 billion in valuation

Ben Dickson — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's latest capital will put the company on the path to fast growth and accelerated profitability. But how will it affect the scientific mission that the AI lab embarked on in 2015?

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Why ChatGPT is not a threat to Google Search

Ben Dickson — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

ChatGPT is a remarkable LLM, with potential applications for online search. But it might be a bit of a stretch to say that it will dethrone Google.

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What to (not) expect from OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Ben Dickson — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's ChatGPT, with all its successes and failures, is a reflection of the short but rich history of large language models (LLM).

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DALL-E 2 on Microsoft Azure: the market for generative models matures

Ben Dickson — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The fast-paced evolution of DALL-E as a commercial product is a sign of the expansion of the market for generative AI models and the maturity of Microsoft’s long-term partnership with OpenAI.

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Can GPT-3 be honest when it speaks nonsense?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000

A study by researchers at OpenAI and the University of Oxford shows large language models can be calibrated to express their uncertainty in their answers.

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GitHub Copilot is among the first real products based on large language models

Ben Dickson — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The public release of GitHub Copilot is an interesting case study in the development of successful products based on large language models.

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DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model

Ben Dickson — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's DALL-E 2 shows how far the AI research community has come toward harnessing the power of deep learning and addressing some of its limits.

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What you should know about developing GPT-3 applications

Ben Dickson — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Here's what you need to know about developing applications with OpenAI's GPT-3 API.

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What GPT-3 on Azure will mean for Microsoft and OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Microsoft's new Azure OpenAI Service will make GPT-3 available to enterprises. It will have important implications for Microsoft and OpenAI.

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What to expect from OpenAI’s Codex API

Ben Dickson — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:01:17 +0000

Codex, OpenAI's deep learning model for programming tasks, seems to be the first promising application of neural networks that were meant for conversations with humans.

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OpenAI Codex shows the limits of large language models

Ben Dickson — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000

A new paper on OpenAI's Codex model sheds much-needed light on how far you can trust deep learning in programming.

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What OpenAI and GitHub’s “AI pair programmer” means for the software industry

Ben Dickson — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Copilot, a source code generator developed by GitHub and OpenAI, provides interesting hints about the future directions of the software industry and the business of large language models.

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Microsoft, GPT-3, and the future of OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Mon, 31 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Microsoft’s first GPT-3-powered product provides important hints about the business of large language models and the future of the tech giant’s deepening relation with OpenAI.

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What does it take to create a GPT-3 product?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI gives easy access to GPT-3. But building a successful product is more than just putting a nice user interface on the massive AI language model.

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The implications of Microsoft’s exclusive GPT-3 license

Ben Dickson — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:28:51 +0000

Microsoft's exclusive license to OpenAI's GPT-3 language model can boost the AI lab's search for a viable business model. It can also break it.

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The GPT-3 economy

Ben Dickson — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:58:01 +0000

Will OpenAI's pricing plan for GPT-3 be able to turn the massive AI language model into a profitable business?

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The Guardian’s GPT-3-written article misleads readers about AI. Here’s why.

Ben Dickson — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:05:53 +0000

The Guardian ran an article that was allegedly written by OpenAI's language model GPT-3. The text is amusing, but misrepresents advances in artificial intelligence.

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An AI-written blog highlights bad human judgment on GPT-3

Ben Dickson — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:00:25 +0000

A blog written by GPT-3 triggered a lot of hype in the media. But most stories paint an incorrect picture of advances in AI.

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The untold story of GPT-3 is the transformation of OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:00:06 +0000

In the process of creating the largest language AI system, OpenAI has gradually morphed from a nonprofit AI lab to a company that sells AI services.

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Reinforcement learning helped robots solve Rubik’s Cube—does it matter?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:00:25 +0000

OpenAI created a robotic hand that solves the Rubik's Cube. It's an interesting feat, but not a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.

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What happens when AI plays hide-and-seek 500 million times

Ben Dickson — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:00:12 +0000

OpenAI created an artificial intelligence system that develops behavior by playing hide-and-seek millions of time. Here's what we learned.

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A few notes on OpenAI’s “fake news–writing AI”

Ben Dickson — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:00:52 +0000

Many people assume that an AI algorithm generating coherent text can trigger a fake news crisis. The assumption couldn't be farther from the truth.

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AI defeated human champions at Dota 2. Here’s what we learned.

Ben Dickson — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:00:10 +0000

Nine months after losing to humans at a Dota 2 e-sports event, OpenAI's team of neural networks came back and made history by defeating the world champions of the online strategy game.

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Explainable AI: Why visualizing neural networks is important

Ben Dickson — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:00:40 +0000

Activation Atlases, a new tool developed by AI researchers at Google and OpenAI, helps visualize the inner-workings of neural networks and better understand deep learning algorithms.

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