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An analyst predicts OpenAI could be part of Microsoft's acquisition portfolio by 2027: "Investors' focus might shift away from AI, and the startups will just find it difficult to keep funding for the innovation they want to do"
By Kevin Okemwa published
OPENAI-OWNED MICROSOFT OpenAI could be on Microsoft's potential buy roster as it continuously burns through money funding its innovations, and investors lose interest in the AI hype.

No, OpenAI's ChatGPT doesn't consume 2 liters of water per 50 queries — a new study says it'll take four times more water than previously thought to quench the chatbot's thirst
By Kevin Okemwa published
THIRSTY AI OpenAI's ChatGPT consumes up to four times more water for cooling than previously thought. The study is based on an earlier version of ChatGPT running OpenAI's GPT-3 model.

OpenAI's $6.6 billion investor funding could be setting up the ChatGPT maker for failure unless a critical threshold gets a stamp of approval
By Kevin Okemwa published
TROUBLE BREWING? OpenAI needs to become a for-profit entity within two years or return the money raised by investors to keep its business afloat.

This 15-year-old high school student made YouTube comments, usually a cesspool of hate, into a must-have business tool
By Sean Endicott published
blown away A new AI tool scans YouTube comments to create a report of feedback for products, and it was made by a 15-year-old in high school.

Generative AI won't render coding dead in the water, but 80% of software engineers must upskill by 2027 to keep up with the revolution: "Building AI-empowered software will demand a new breed of a software professional, the AI engineer"
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI ENGINEER A new study by Gartner indicates that 80% of software engineers will reportedly need to upskill by 2027 as a blatant attempt to keep up with the rapid advances in the AI landscape.

The new Copilot AI experience makes it difficult for Microsoft to state its case against OpenAI's offering: "Until they bring back the old version I will be going back to ChatGPT"
By Kevin Okemwa published
MAJOR FAIL? Microsoft's latest update for Copilot AI has been received with a cocktail of emotions. Most users cite a degraded user experience, low-quality responses

Sam Altman admits ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode tricked him into thinking AI was a real person: "I kind of still say 'please' to ChatGPT, but in Voice Mode, I couldn't use the normal niceties. I was so convinced, like, Argh, it might be a real person"
By Kevin Okemwa published
REAL AI? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that ChatGPT's Voice Mode was the first time he was tricked into thinking AI was a real person.

NVIDIA just debuted its new open-source advanced AI model with state-of-the-art capabilities to take on OpenAI's 'magical' GPT-4o
By Kevin Okemwa published
OPEN-SOURCE AI NVIDIA recently unveiled powerful open-source multimodal large language models (LLMs) dubbed NVLM 1.0 with the flagship model, NVLM-D-72B featuring up to 72 billion parameters.

OpenAI's "collapse" fears reportedly date back to Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever's abrupt departure — beyond recent bankruptcy reports with projections of $5 billion in losses within the next 12 months
By Kevin Okemwa published
COLLAPSED OPENAI High-level executives at OpenAI feared the AI firm would collapse following Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever's abrupt departure.

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from Microsoft and NVIDIA, pushing its market cap to $157 billion — with "the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars" and $11.6 billion in sales vision on the horizon
By Kevin Okemwa published
$157B MARKET CAP OpenAI has officially closed its funding round with a $157 billion market capitalization after raising $6.6 billion from many big tech corporations, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and more.
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