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OpenAI’s Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing, Now Serving 400 Million Users

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Chris McKay• February 20, 2025 • 1 min read

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users, growing 33% in just three months, while its enterprise user base has doubled to 2 million, solidifying its position as both a consumer and enterprise AI powerhouse.

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OpenAI's New Benchmark Tests AI Models Against Real-World Software Engineering Tasks

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Chris McKay• February 18, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI has launched SWE-Lancer, a benchmark evaluating AI models on over 1,400 real-world software engineering tasks sourced from Upwork, collectively worth $1 million in payouts.

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Elon Musk Says He’ll Drop $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid—If It Remains Nonprofit

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Chris McKay• February 13, 2025 • 1 min read

Despite Musk’s offer, OpenAI appears intent on moving forward with its restructuring, setting the stage for continued legal and strategic battles between the two sides.

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GPT-5 Is the Omnimodel We’ve Been Waiting For—Here’s Why

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Chris McKay• February 12, 2025 • 2 min read

Instead of requiring users to choose between different models for different tasks, OpenAI aims to create a system where AI “just works”—handling both fast and complex reasoning tasks as needed.

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7 Key Takeaways from OpenAI’s New Model Spec Update

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Chris McKay• February 12, 2025 • 3 min read

It's refreshing to see OpenAI treating users/developers as partners who can handle difficult conversations, rather than risks that need to be managed.

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OpenAI Updates Model Spec to Better Balance User Freedom with Safety Guardrails

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Chris McKay• February 12, 2025 • 4 min read

The update explicitly embraces intellectual freedom within defined safety boundaries, allowing discussion of controversial topics while maintaining restrictions against concrete harm.

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Elon Musk Bids $97.4B for OpenAI

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Chris McKay• February 10, 2025 • 2 min read

Altman dismissed the bid outright, taking a jab at Musk on X, formerly Twitter, saying, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”

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Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord Form Child Safety Group to Combat Online Child Exploitation in the AI Era

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Chris McKay• February 10, 2025 • 2 min read

The initiative seeks to create a more accessible and transparent safety infrastructure in response to growing concerns over AI’s role in online harm.

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OpenAI's Super Bowl Debut Frames AI as Next Chapter in Human Innovation

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Chris McKay• February 10, 2025 • 5 min read

The ad used a pointillism-inspired animation to depict human progress, from fire and the wheel to AI.

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OpenAI Announces a Munich Office

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Chris McKay• February 7, 2025 • 1 min read

The Munich office, set to open in the coming months, will initially focus on building teams across go-to-market, global affairs, and communications roles.

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OpenAI Introduces European Data Residency for Enterprises and Developers

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Chris McKay• February 5, 2025 • 2 min read

This will help organizations meet European data sovereignty requirements while using OpenAI’s AI models and services.

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ChatGPT Search Now Available to Everyone—No Login Required

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Chris McKay• February 5, 2025 • 2 min read

The real test will be whether users find enough value in ChatGPT's search capabilities to change their deeply ingrained search habits.

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Figure AI Ends OpenAI Partnership to Focus on In-House Robot Intelligence

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Chris McKay• February 4, 2025 • 2 min read

Adcock claims Figure has made a “major breakthrough” in fully end-to-end robot AI and promises to showcase “something no one has ever seen on a humanoid” within 30 days.

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OpenAI Unveils New Visual Identity

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Chris McKay• February 4, 2025 • 1 min read

The new design emphasizes the OpenAI wordmark, representing a shift from the company's previous reliance on its distinctive blossom logo toward a more minimalist approach.

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OpenAI Unveils Deep Research, an AI Agent That Conducts Multi-Step Research Tasks

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Chris McKay• February 2, 2025 • 2 min read

The new capability will first be available to Pro users with a limit of 100 queries per month, the company plans to expand access to Plus and Team users, followed by Enterprise customers.

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Key Takeaways from OpenAI’s Reddit AMA: Open Source Plans, DeepSeek Competition, and Future AI Models

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Chris McKay• January 31, 2025 • 2 min read

The session revealed notable strategic pivots and technological advancements that could reshape the AI industry's trajectory.

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OpenAI Releases o3-Mini, Bringing Smarter, Faster, and Cheaper Reasoning AI to Free Users

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Chris McKay• January 31, 2025 • 3 min read

For developers, o3-mini provides full API access with support for function calling, structured outputs, and developer messages. The model offers three reasoning effort levels - low, medium, and high - allowing developers to optimize for their specific use cases.

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OpenAI in Talks to Raise $40 Billion at $300B Valuation

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Chris McKay• January 29, 2025 • 3 min read

If completed, the deal would be one of the largest private funding rounds in history, making OpenAI the world’s second-most valuable startup after SpaceX.

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OpenAI and Microsoft Signal Ambitious Next Phase in AI Partnership

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Chris McKay• January 29, 2025 • 2 min read

While specific details about the next phase remain under wraps, the collaboration remains one of the most important ones in the industry, and will continue to significantly shape the trajectory of AI development and deployment at scale.

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OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Gov: A Secure AI Platform for U.S. Government Agencies

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Chris McKay• January 28, 2025 • 2 min read

This will allow government agencies to leverage OpenAI's technology while maintaining control over their data security and compliance requirements.

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OpenAI Launches Operator: A New AI Agent that Can Use Your Computer to Browse the Web

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Chris McKay• January 23, 2025 • 2 min read

Operator uses Computer-Using Agent (CUA), a model that combines GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with reinforcement learning, that allows it "see" and navigate your screen like a human would.

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SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle Launch $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Initiative

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Chris McKay• January 21, 2025 • 2 min read

Described as the largest AI infrastructure investment in history, Stargate will help transform the US into a global AI hub while addressing critical challenges like healthcare innovation and job creation.

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Microsoft is No Longer OpenAI's Exclusive Cloud Provider

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Chris McKay• January 21, 2025 • 2 min read

Microsoft will maintain several key privileges, including rights to OpenAI's intellectual property and exclusive API access through its Azure platform until 2030.

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OpenAI Partners with Retro Biosciences to Engineer Stem Cell Proteins with AI

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Chris McKay• January 17, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI's new model, GPT-4b micro, shows promising results in redesigning proteins that could improve stem cell production efficiency by up to 50 times.

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Axios and OpenAI Partner to Expand Local Newsrooms

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Chris McKay• January 15, 2025 • 2 min read

A three-year deal will bring Axios Local to Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Boulder, and Huntsville, with OpenAI providing funding and technology support.