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Steven Heidel

12 days

today marks 1 year since i joined @OpenAI - so i can finally share how i really feel about the company... and that is that this is genuinely the best job i've ever had

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

8 months

happy to join microsoft, still not using teams though

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father of X Æ A-12 gives advice on naming things

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8 months

@Benioff @SlackHQ listen, i love slack but the company that builds tableau isn't going to build AGI

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Steven Heidel

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8 months

looking forward to meeting my new intern

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@sama

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first and last time i ever wear one of these

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Steven Heidel

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announcing our new small model gpt-4o-mini! smarter than Claude Haiku and Gemini Flash, and 30x cheaper than gpt-4o

GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence

Introducing the most cost-efficient small model in the market

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7 days

the only real downside to working @OpenAI is all the cool stuff you get to see but aren't allowed to talk about yet

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@sama

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

8 months

The API team is here. The ChatGPT team is here. The Laundry Buddy team is here. We are all still fully committed to our developers and users.

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@snsf

8 months

We are still fully committed to our incredible community of developers and users.

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

7 months

brace yourselves, agi is coming

Jan Leike

@janleike

7 months

I'm very excited that today OpenAI adopts its new preparedness framework! This framework spells out our strategy for measuring and forecasting risks, and our commitments to stop deployment and development if safety mitigations are ever lagging behind.

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Steven Heidel

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4 months

delve into the latest gpt-4-turbo model: - major improvements across the board in our evals (especially math) - dec 2023 knowledge cutoff

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@OpenAI

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Majorly improved GPT-4 Turbo model available now in the API and rolling out in ChatGPT.

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8 months

gonna get this framed to put up in the office

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Steven Heidel

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2 months

@Google fitting since 2M is also the number of steps it takes to set up an API key

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Steven Heidel

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8 months

OpenAI is nothing without its people

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4 months

░W░E░I░G░H░T░I░N░B░I░O░

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8 months

oh thank god

Dona Sarkar

@donasarkar

8 months

Yo @openai friends! Setting one record straight: If you join @microsoft , you can use whatever tools you’re used to ( @SlackHQ @Zoom @Webex carrier pigeons, whatever) Ask our friends at @LinkedIn and @github !

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Steven Heidel

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2 months

hope everyone's ready!

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

4 months

in the future no one should have to do work they don't enjoy

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4 months

reminder: when you see headlines about other models beating gpt-4 they're likely talking about gpt-4-0314 from last year, which doesn't have the significant improvements we've added to the latest gpt-4-turbo models

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@stevenheidel

8 months

on your last day at openai they give you your shift key back

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8 months

❤️

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@sama

8 months

i love the openai team so much

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Steven Heidel

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2 months

incredible energy at our first @OpenAI event in Paris with over 250+ founders attending! merci beaucoup à tous

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

8 months

@Benioff @SlackHQ sticking with @sama and @gdb - thanks though

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Steven Heidel

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3 months

brand new 😍

OpenAI

We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

3 months

my twitter replies are a constant battle between team “where’s ilya” and team “when gpt-5”

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

3 months

join us live on this monday at 10am

OpenAI

We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.

openai.com

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

8 months

customers lost = 0 employees lost = 0 ❤️ emojis = too many to count

OpenAI

@OpenAI

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Sam Altman is back as CEO, Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman as President. OpenAI has a new initial board. Messages from @sama and board chair @btaylor

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8 months

@OpenAI OpenAI (Bret Taylor's version)

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@stevenheidel

4 months

Careers

Developing safe and beneficial AI systems requires people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. We’re always looking for curious minds to join our team.

openai.com

Inflection AI

@inflectionAI

4 months

Today at Inflection we are announcing some important updates. A new phase for the company begins now. Read more here:

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

5 months

the next few months are going to be incredibly exciting

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

3 months

do you love koding? consider joining the applied team @OpenAI

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@stevenheidel

5 months

congrats to the @AnthropicAI team on the release of Claude 3 today! as i’ve said before the next few months are going to be incredibly exciting 📈

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@stevenheidel

5 months

wild that this was generated from a single text prompt

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@stevenheidel

5 months

@elonmusk @OpenAI how'd the twitter name change go?

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@stevenheidel

4 months

the upside to working at openai is that you know exactly what @gdb is referencing in his tweets the downside is you still have no idea about @tszzl

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@gdb

4 months

there's a simple joy in staying up late to finish one last feature

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

8 months

back to work - these models aren’t going to fine-tune themselves!

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

3 months

when gpt-2

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

3 months

GPUs autographed by @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang actually run 20% faster

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@gdb

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First @NVIDIA DGX H200 in the world, hand-delivered to OpenAI and dedicated by Jensen "to advance AI, computing, and humanity":

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

1 month

yes i would like to use @ChatGPTapp for that

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

2 months

gpt-4o is significantly better than previous models at generating text in images

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@gdb

2 months

A GPT-4o generated image — so much to explore with GPT-4o's image generation capabilities alone. Team is working hard to bring those to the world.

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2 months

the "o" in gpt-4o stands for :O

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

10 months

New! Fine-tuning on functions: Try it out to reduce the number of prompt tokens spent on function definitions and improve the accuracy of complex function calls. Excited to hear how it works for you!

OpenAI Platform

Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.

platform.openai.com

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@stevenheidel

5 months

@sama another reason to join: you get access to sora

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

3 months

who’s building AI for taxes? upload all your documents, answer a few questions, output a completed return

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@stevenheidel

3 months

@OfficialLoganK Logan how could you

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

4 months

again,

Careers

Developing safe and beneficial AI systems requires people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. We’re always looking for curious minds to join our team.

openai.com

Stability AI

@StabilityAI

4 months

An announcement from Stability AI:

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8 months

@Benioff 🙏

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5 months

legend

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@sama

5 months

@elonmusk anytime 🫡

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8 months

💙 i love you all

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❤️

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3 months

we are once again so back

lmsys.org

@lmsysorg

3 months

🔥Exciting news -- GPT-4-Turbo has just reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Arena leaderboard again! Woah! We collect over 8K user votes from diverse domains and observe its strong coding & reasoning capability over others. Hats off to @OpenAI for this incredible launch! To offer

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

1 month

feel the Apple Intelligence

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Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel

8 months

turns out @JeffDean actually wrote all the model weights by hand #jeffdeanfacts - seriously though, congrats to everyone at Google and DeepMind on the Gemini release today!

Jeff Dean (@🏡)

@JeffDean

8 months

I’m very excited to share our work on Gemini today! Gemini is a family of multimodal models that demonstrate really strong capabilities across the image, audio, video, and text domains. Our most-capable model, Gemini Ultra, advances the state of the art in 30 of 32 benchmarks,

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2 months

re-ran this notebook with gpt-4o, it scores 75.4% (vs 63.1% for gpt-4-turbo) and also completes in half the time

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@stevenheidel

3 months

for fun today i tried out the new RealWorldQA benchmark from @xai and was able to reproduce the result for gpt-4-turbo (although i got a slightly higher 63.1%). great to see more multimodal evals, keep them coming!

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2 months

sending ♥️ to our incredible team, our amazing developer community, and all our @ChatGPTapp users. hope you’ll join us this morning

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@OpenAI

3 months

We’ll be streaming live on at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.

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3 months

it should hopefully be clear at this point that google is not a serious company for developers. i would think twice before building on top of google's cloud services (RIP google domains) or languages/frameworks (Dart, Flutter, Go)

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3 months

congrats to the @Meta and @MistralAI teams for their impressive model releases this week!

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@stevenheidel

8 months

we’re so back

Greg Brockman

@gdb

8 months

Amazing progress made today. We will come back stronger & more unified than ever:

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9 months

It's hard to overstate how much work went into the new OpenAI Assistants API, and how much we owe to the incredible leadership of @michpokrass and @athyuttamre in getting to today's launch

OpenAI Platform

Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.

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@stevenheidel

5 months

we’re still so back

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@OpenAI

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“We have unanimously concluded that Sam and Greg are the right leaders for OpenAI.” — Bret Taylor, Chair of the OpenAI Board The Special Committee of the OpenAI Board has announced the completion of the independent review into November’s events.

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7 months

see if you can spot when i switched from manager back to individual contributor

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it's 1M input tokens, Michael. what could it cost, $10?

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3 months

“our ceo is cool now!” - meta recruiters this week

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2 months

the new gpt-4o model is in a class of its own

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@LiamFedus

2 months

GPT-4o is our new state-of-the-art frontier model. We’ve been testing a version on the LMSys arena as im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot 🙂. Here’s how it’s been doing.

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8 months

ChatGPT with voice now available to all users! (Breeze is definitely the best voice btw)

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@OpenAI

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ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users. Download the app on your phone and tap the headphones icon to start a conversation. Sound on 🔊

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6 days

another top developer request: gpt-4o-mini supports up to 16k output tokens

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@gdb

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We built gpt-4o mini due to popular demand from developers. We ❤️ developers, and aim to provide them the best tools to convert machine intelligence into positive applications across every domain. Please keep the feedback coming.

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gpt-4o-mini is a large model the size of a small model

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@lmsysorg

6 days

Congrats @openai on the new GPT-4o mini release! GPT-4o mini's early version "upcoming-gpt-mini" was tested in Arena in the past week. With over 6K user votes, we are excited to share its early score reaching GPT-4-Turbo performance, while offering significant cost reduction

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@stevenheidel

2 months

double your performance and halve your cost with this one simple trick!

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@pbteja1998

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I made 1 line change in my code... ...and my @OpenAI bill got reduced by 1/2 😅 Need more hacks like this 😀

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5 months

openai is nothing without its gross domestic product of several nations combined

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@sama intelligence: 📈, cost: 📉

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5 months

lots of talk about openai’s governance yet few understand that the board is ultimately accountable to the bene gesserit

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3 months

reminder to tech recruiters: canada has other universities that aren’t waterloo

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8 months

@_smileyball you should buy a new washer

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29 days

ChatGPT desktop is now available! been using this for a few months and love it: it's native, super fast, and pops up anywhere with Option+Space

OpenAI

@OpenAI

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The ChatGPT desktop app for macOS is now available for all users. Get faster access to ChatGPT to chat about email, screenshots, and anything on your screen with the Option + Space shortcut:

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imagine you’re in canada, it’s -40 degrees out, and your furnace breaks. you call the furnace guy, but he can’t make it until tomorrow. so you use @ChatGPTapp to upload a few images, then after some back and forth you manage to fix it yourself, avoiding a miserable night.

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northern lights over san francisco, according to ⁦⁦ @ChatGPTapp ⁩

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💜

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uh oh

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2 months

fun fact i learned today about the domain : it's 1 of only 3 single letter .com domains that were registered before the remaining letters were blocked from registration. the other two are and

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@stevenheidel

8 months

thanks to everyone who messaged over the past week asking about the hows and whys of fine-tuning - recommend checking out this talk by my colleagues @john__allard and @colintjarvis

A Survey of Techniques for Maximizing LLM Performance

Join us for a comprehensive survey of techniques designed to unlock the full potential of Language Model Models (LLMs). Explore strategies such as fine-tunin...

www.youtube.com

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@stevenheidel

3 months

enterprise: “we only trust public cloud providers for our AI models” public cloud providers:

Scott Piper

@0xdabbad00

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Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.

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you can now stream responses from the assistants API!

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Streaming is now available in the Assistants API! You can build real-time experiences with tools like Code Interpreter, retrieval, and function calling.

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congrats to all the incredible folks who worked on this partnership from the API team: @oliviergodement @dyett @michpokrass @sherwinwu @snsf @rasmusrygaard @athyuttamre

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excited to share what we've been working on with apple 🤠 bringing chatgpt to so many new surfaces has been one of the highlights of my career - excited for you to see it later this year!

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for fun today i tried out the new RealWorldQA benchmark from @xai and was able to reproduce the result for gpt-4-turbo (although i got a slightly higher 63.1%). great to see more multimodal evals, keep them coming!

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people are using ChatGPT to turn bullet points into emails. then on the other end the receiver is using ChatGPT to summarize the email back to bullet points. this could all be avoided if it were just acceptable to send the bullet points in the first place.

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One reason I dislike being sent stuff written by ChatGPT is that it feels like being sent object code instead of source code. The source code was the prompts.

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ngmi tbh

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inpainting is now available in chatgpt!

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@OpenAI

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You can now edit DALL·E images in ChatGPT across web, iOS, and Android.

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i am excited about chelsea’s excitement

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@csvoss

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I am excited about rapha’s excitement

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out: Bard, in: Brad

OpenAI’s Secret Weapon Is Sam Altman’s 33-Year-Old Lieutenant

Brad Lightcap helped seal the startup’s deal with publisher Axel Springer. Now he’s experimenting with the company’s business model.

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@OfficialLoganK @OpenAI OpenAI is nothing without its amazing developer community

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it's a privilege to get to work with so many incredible people every day on technologies that are reshaping the world. looking forward to year 2 and to continue pushing towards AGI!

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have you used the @OpenAI fine-tuning API? how's it working for you?

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2 months

one of our top requests for the assistants API: customizable RAG

OpenAI Developers

@OpenAIDevs

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You can now customize how your files are chunked and change the number of chunks returned in the Assistants API’s File Search tool.

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i think there is a world market for maybe five AGIs

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OpenAI 日本

OpenAI

@OpenAI

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Introducing OpenAI Japan, our first office in Asia, along with a new GPT-4 custom model specifically optimized for 日本語 (the Japanese language).

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really neat application of AI - recommend checking this out. @arcinternet is my default browser on desktop, this may become my new default on mobile.

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@joshm

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a little Sunday surprise for you... meet @browsercompany 's 2nd product: 🔍Arc Search🔎 it's a default browser for your iPhone ...that BROWSES FOR YOU the origin story is a bit unusual so I wanted to give you the full backstory:

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interesting (and very readable) paper on improving protection against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and other attacks

OpenAI

@OpenAI

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Introducing the Instruction Hierarchy, our latest safety research to advance robustness for prompt injections and other ways of tricking LLMs into executing unsafe actions. More details:

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