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2025.02.04

07:46

OpenAI's Altman discusses collaboration with Samsung's Lee Jae-yong

South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper, citing unnamed industry insiders, reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet with Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Tuesday to discuss cooperation in new businesses. OpenAI and Samsung are coordinating to sign an "open partnership" to combine cutting-edge technology with Samsung's products and services by joining forces with global artificial intelligence companies. The two companies may also discuss investment and cooperation in AI chips.

2025.02.03

14:39

SoftBank and OpenAI set up joint venture in Japan to provide AI services

On February 3, Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japan's SoftBank Group, said that SoftBank has reached an agreement with OpenAI to establish a joint venture in Japan to provide artificial intelligence services to corporate clients. OpenAI CEO Altman arrived in Tokyo on February 3 to meet with Masayoshi Son, and they will also meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba together.

14:11

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: The global demand for computing power is going to be enormous.

13:56

According to Yonhap News Agency: OpenAI founder Sam Altman is expected to announce a collaboration with South Korean technology company Kakao on Tuesday.

13:55

SoftBank Group: (With OpenAI) the two parties will explore measures to protect customer data on servers in Japan's artificial intelligence data center.

13:18

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son: SoftBank and OpenAI will each own a 50% stake in the SB OpenAI Japan joint venture.

13:18

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son: SoftBank has reached an agreement with OpenAI to deploy "CRISTAL" to enterprises. We will start this initiative in Japan.

06:07

Sam Altman, founder and CEO of OpenAI: OpenAI will develop specialized hardware for AI.

2025.02.01

15:27

Agency: Distillation technology significantly reduces development costs and is expected to accelerate the actual implementation of AI applications

Guosheng Computer Team said that DeepSeek has distilled 6 small models through the output of DeepSeek-R1 and opened them to the community. Among them, the 32B and 70B models have achieved the same effect as OpenAI o1-mini in many capabilities. The DeepSeek-R1 API service is priced much lower than OpenAI o1. Lower costs allow companies to develop AI applications with higher efficiency, which is expected to accelerate the domestic AI application from concept to actual implementation. DeepSeek's open source distilled small model surpasses OpenAI o1-mini and is also expected to accelerate the implementation of the model on the end side.

13:40

OpenAI urgently releases o3-mini, CEO Altman rarely admits mistakes and calls DeepSeek "very good"

OpenAI launched its latest o3-mini model, which is used in ChatGPT and API, refreshing benchmarks in areas such as mathematical code. o3-mini performs best in terms of accuracy and calibration error, and is 63% cheaper than o1-mini. Developers can choose different inference strengths to balance speed and accuracy. OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman said that o3-mini is a response to the DeepSeek craze, and revealed that the full-blooded version of o3 will be launched in the next few weeks. At the same time, he acknowledged past mistakes in open source strategy and is discussing a new open source strategy. Advanced speech model updates are also planned, possibly named GPT-5.

12:15

OpenAI CEO to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son on Monday

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will meet on Monday with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman, as well as SoftBank Group Corp. chief Masayoshi Son, according to a government announcement.

10:09

ChatGPT's paid subscriber base nearly triples to 15.5 million

OpenAI recently told some shareholders that despite facing competition from chatbots made by Google, Anthropic and Meta Platform, the number of paid subscribers to ChatGPT has nearly tripled from 5.8 million a year ago to 15.5 million in 2024.

03:27

OpenAI has announced the release of a new lightweight artificial intelligence model, o3-Mini, which is free to use.

2025.01.31

11:31

US Congressional Office Asked to Disable DeepSeek

Reuters cited a report from the U.S. Axios news website on January 30 that the Chief Administrative Affairs Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a notice to congressional offices, warning them not to use the services of China's artificial intelligence application DeepSeek. The notice reportedly said: "Currently, DeepSeek is under review by the Chief Administrative Affairs Officer and has not yet authorized the House of Representatives to officially use the model." The report said that the emergence of this low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model threatens the market dominance of American artificial intelligence leaders such as the Open Artificial Intelligence Research Center (OpenAI) and Google.

05:22

OpenAI: Signed an agreement with a US national laboratory to advance its scientific research.

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