OpenAI reveals GPT-4.5 amid flurry of new AI model releases

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OpenAI releases ‘largest, most knowledgable’ model GPT-4.5 with reduced hallucinations and high API price
GPT-4.5 API pricing appears shockingly high, costing developers $75 and $180 for 1 million tokens in and out, respectively.VentureBeat - 5h -
Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT
Meta's upcoming AI app advances CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to make his company the leader in AI by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.CNBC - 2h -
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DeepSeek Rushes to Launch new AI Model as China Goes All in
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Microsoft’s new Phi-4 AI models pack big performance in small packages
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This Founder Left OpenAI to Launch a Competitor. It Aims to Bring AI to the Masses
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has taken the wraps off her new company, Thinking Machines Lab. Here’s what to know about its goals.Inc. - Feb. 19 -
How to Write the Perfect AI Prompt, According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman
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Christie's begins AI art auction amid backlash
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How DeepSeek used distillation to train its artificial intelligence model, and what it means for companies such as OpenAI
DeepSeek's sudden emergence has put the AI industry's focus on a technique called distillation.CNBC - 6d -
OpenAI launching GPT-4.5, its next general-purpose large language model
Last month CNBC reported that OpenAI was in discussions on a $40 billion funding round at a $340 billion valuation.CNBC - 5h -
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet takes aim at OpenAI and DeepSeek in AI’s next big battle
Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI with groundbreaking 'thinking time' controls, challenging OpenAI and DeepSeek while reshaping enterprise AI with unified reasoning capabilities and new ...VentureBeat - 3d -
OpenAI expands Deep Research access to Plus users, heating up AI agent wars with DeepSeek and Claude
OpenAI expands Deep Research AI agent to ChatGPT users, intensifying competition with DeepSeek and Anthropic.VentureBeat - 2d -
Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work
Music stars including Kate Bush and Damon Albarn say law changes would damage people's livelihoods.BBC News - 2d -
Breaking down Grok 3: The AI model that could redefine the industry
Grok-3 still hasn't fully shipped yet. But it will surely set the tone for how other AI labs release future models.VentureBeat - Feb. 20 -
Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model
Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems.Wired - 3d -
Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally
Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.CNBC - 1d -
Golf model reveals top three longshot picks to target at the 2025 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches
SportsLine's model simulated the 2025 Cognizant Classic 10,000 times and revealed its PGA Tour longshotsCBS Sports - 1d -
2025 Cognizant Classic free picks, odds, bets: Golf model reveals top 3 predictions, including 33-1 longshot
SportsLine's model simulated the 2025 Cognizant Classic 10,000 times and revealed its PGA Tour best bets as the Florida Swing gets underway at the PGA National ResortCBS Sports - 1d -
2025 NASCAR at Atlanta Motor Speedway odds, predictions, time: Model that nailed 19 winners releases picks
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2025 NASCAR at Austin odds, predictions, time: Model that nailed 19 winners releases COTA picks
SportsLine simulated the 2025 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas 10,000 times and revealed its NASCAR Austin leaderboardCBS Sports - 7h -
Metroid Dread Dev's New Game Is Blades Of Fire, Releases In May
It's been a long time since MercurySteam released an original game, but the studio behind Metroid: Samus Returns and Metroid Dread has finally revealed a first look at its upcoming dark fantasy ...GameSpot - 3h -
British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work
A new album called “Is This What We Want?”ABC News - 2d -
1,000 musicians release a silent album in protest of U.K.'s proposed AI copyright law changes
A group of musicians is hoping the sound of their collective silence speaks volumes to lawmakers in the U.K.NBC News - 2d -
Nvidia CEO Huang says AI has to do ‘100 times more’ computation now than when ChatGPT was released
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke with CNBC's Jon Fortt following the chipmaker's quarterly earnings report on Wednesday.CNBC - 10h -
Hunter Schafer reveals new passport misgenders her: Trump's anti-trans orders 'not just talk'
Transgender actor Hunter Schafer says she was 'shocked' upon learning her new passport, issued under the Trump administration, incorrectly identifies her.Los Angeles Times - 6d -
New details revealed after 3 Revere women found dead in Belize hotel
New details have been revealed in the deaths of three women from Revere at a hotel in Belize.CBS News - 1d -
4A Games Ukraine Reveals Sci-Fi FPS La Quimera And Gives Itself A New Name
Change is in the air for the developer previously known as 4A Games Ukraine, as the studio has announced a rebrand to Reburn and its next game, La Quimera. Originally founded in 2006, the newly ...GameSpot - 11h -
NFL reveals massive salary cap increase for 2025 season with new league year kicking off March 12
Teams will have a much bigger allowance this upcoming seasonCBS Sports - 8h -
New Minecraft Movie Trailer Reveals Its Villain, Free In-Game Jetpack Coming For Some Ticket Buyers
The next big video game movie is A Minecraft Movie, which comes to theaters this April. A new trailer for the video game film has arrived, and it provides the best look at the movie so far.. The ...GameSpot - 6h -
As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing servicesABC News - Feb. 18 -
Together AI’s $305M bet: Reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 are increasing, not decreasing, GPU demand
The demands of DeepSeek's advanced reasoning capabilities are pushing enterprises toward Together AI's optimized infrastructure platform.VentureBeat - Feb. 21 -
AI still has a hallucination problem: How MongoDB aims to solve it with advanced rerankers and embedding models
How MongoDB's Voyage AI is helping enterprises move more mission critical operations into production with gen AI.VentureBeat - 3d -
Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs show how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in wireless networks
Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs showed how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in an interoperable way in wireless networks.VentureBeat - 1d
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