Category: OpenAI
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Apps Inside ChatGPT: A Glimpse into the Future of AI-Native Development
At this year’s OpenAI Dev Day, I think we saw the next chapter of software unfold. The big headline wasn’t just about new models—it was about an entirely new way of building and interacting with apps. OpenAI’s introduction of AppKit hints at a world where chat itself becomes the operating system. During…
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Sora: The ChatGPT Moment for Generative Video
Seventy-two hours ago, OpenAI launched Sora, an invite-only app that has already climbed to the top of Apple’s App Store. In just three days, it’s changed how I—and a lot of others—spend time online. Speaking personally, I’ve logged more hours inside Sora this week than I’ve spent on TikTok across my…
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Thoughts about OpenAI GPT-5-Codex from my conversation with Greg Brockman and Thibault Sottiaux
For the latest episode of the OpenAI Podcast I sat down with OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman and Code engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux to talk about the release of OpenAI’s new GPT-5-Codex model.
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Inside the Launch of GPT-4
With GPT-4 now stepping back from its starring role in ChatGPT, I want to share a few of my favorite memories from its launch. I originally joined OpenAI as an engineer on the Applied team, but later moved into a hybrid role as OpenAI’s “science communicator.” That shift let me…
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Can You Dramatically Improve Results on the Latest Large Language Model Reasoning Benchmark With a Simple Prompt?

tldr: Yes. A recent paper, GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models, makes the claim that their new benchmark demonstrates that state of the art reasoning models have critical limitations when it comes to reasoning. Putting aside the fact that they grouped together tiny 2.7 B…
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Improving GPT-4’s Visual Reasoning with Prompting

TLDR: How to boost GPT-4 with Vision’s capabilities with a simple prompt addition. A recent paper How Far Are We from Intelligent Visual Deductive Reasoning? points out the limitations in visual reasoning in image models like GPT-4V. Like other related papers, I think the investigators are directionally correct (these models…
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My Custom Instructions for ChatGPT

tldr: Custom instructions let you provide ChatGPT with relevant information of your choice about you and how you like to communicate. I’ve use a couple simple tricks to adapt it to my style. I use ChatGPT non-stop for work, fun and exploring. When I write novels it’s a great research…
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How to get GPT-4 to play Wordle (and other prompt tricks)

tl;dr: One of the tricks to using GPT-4 well is understanding how it sees text and instructions When we started testing GPT-4 internally last summer one of the first tests people would try is getting it to play the game Wordle. While trying to guess a five-letter word should be…
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Collaborative Creative Writing with OpenAI’s ChatGPT

tl;dr: You can use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to bounce ideas around and write story outlines Since I got into the field of AI and started working at OpenAI, it’s been interesting to see how things have accelerated. As an author, I’m frequently asked if AI will replace writers altogether. My personal…
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The Easy Guide to Using OpenAI’s Whisper Model to Transcribe Video and Audio

OpenAI recently released Whisper, an open source automatic speech recognition model that’s incredibly powerful. I’m biased (I’m the Science Communicator for OpenAI), but in my experience it’s better than any system or service I’ve ever used. Best of all, your can use it completely free, either by downloading it to…