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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 22 Aug.
The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.
Built to benefit everyone
OpenAI’s recapitalization strengthens mission-focused governance, expanding resources to ensure AI benefits everyone while advancing innovation responsibly.
Voice Cloning with Consent
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Seizing the AI opportunity
Meeting the demands of the Intelligence Age will require strategic investment in energy and infrastructure. OpenAI’s submission to the White House details how expanding capacity and workforce readiness can sustain U.S. leadership in AI and economic growth.
Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations
OpenAI collaborated with 170+ mental health experts to improve ChatGPT’s ability to recognize distress, respond empathetically, and guide users toward real-world support—reducing unsafe responses by up to 80%. Learn how we’re making ChatGPT safer and more supportive in sensitive moments.
Addendum to GPT-5 System Card: Sensitive conversations
This system card details GPT-5’s improvements in handling sensitive conversations, including new benchmarks for emotional reliance, mental health, and jailbreak resistance.
Steuerrecht.com delivers client-ready legal analysis with ChatGPT
Steuerrecht.com uses ChatGPT Business to streamline legal workflows, automate tax research, and deliver faster, client-ready analysis for law firms.
Streaming datasets: 100x More Efficient
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huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning
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T5Gemma: A new collection of encoder-decoder Gemma models
Introducing T5Gemma, a new collection of encoder-decoder LLMs.
MedGemma: Our most capable open models for health AI development
We’re announcing new multimodal models in the MedGemma collection, our most capable open models for health AI development.
Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide
Gemma 3n is designed for the developer community that helped shape Gemma.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now ready for scaled production use
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, previously in preview, is now stable and generally available. This cost-efficient model provides high quality in a small size, and includes 2.5 family features like a 1 million-token context window and multimodality.
Behind “ANCESTRA”: combining Veo with live-action filmmaking
We partnered with Darren Aronofsky, Eliza McNitt and a team of more than 200 people to make a film using Veo and live-action filmmaking.
AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail
New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring
Exploring the context of online images with Backstory
New experimental AI tool helps people explore the context and origin of images seen online.
Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad
The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians who compete to solve six exceptionally difficult problems i...
Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past
Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.
Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a resolution of 720p.
How AI is helping advance the science of bioacoustics to save endangered species
Our new Perch model helps conservationists analyze audio faster to protect endangered species, from Hawaiian honeycreepers to coral reefs.
Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth
Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth
Gemini achieves gold-medal level at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves breakthrough performance at the world’s most prestigious computer programming competition, demonstrating a profound leap in abstract problem solving.
Discovering new solutions to century-old problems in fluid dynamics
Our new method could help mathematicians leverage AI techniques to tackle long-standing challenges in mathematics, physics and engineering.
LeRobot v0.4.0: Supercharging OSS Robot Learning
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OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky—a natural language interface for Mac that brings AI directly into your desktop experience. Together, we’re integrating Sky’s deep macOS capabilities into ChatGPT to make AI more intuitive, contextual, and action-oriented.