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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 23 Aug.
BrowseComp: a benchmark for browsing agents
BrowseComp: a benchmark for browsing agents.
OpenAI Pioneers Program
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Hugging Face and Cloudflare Partner to Make Real-Time Speech and Video Seamless with FastRTC
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Arabic Leaderboards: Introducing Arabic Instruction Following, Updating AraGen, and More
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Canva enables creativity with AI
A conversation with Cameron Adams, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Canva.
OpenAI’s EU Economic Blueprint
Today, OpenAI is sharing the EU Economic Blueprint—a set of proposals to help Europe seize the promise of artificial intelligence, drive sustainable economic growth across the region, and ensure that AI is developed and deployed by Europe, in Europe, for Europe.
Welcome Llama 4 Maverick & Scout on Hugging Face
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Journey to 1 Million Gradio Users!
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The NLP Course is becoming the LLM Course
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Efficient Request Queueing – Optimizing LLM Performance
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New commission to provide insight as OpenAI builds the world’s best-equipped nonprofit
Already a nonprofit, and already using AI to help people solve hard problems, OpenAI aims to build the best-equipped nonprofit the world has ever seen—combining potentially historic financial resources with something even more powerful: technology that can scale human ingenuity itself.
PaperBench: Evaluating AI’s Ability to Replicate AI Research
We introduce PaperBench, a benchmark evaluating the ability of AI agents to replicate state-of-the-art AI research.
Our response to the UK’s copyright consultation
Recommendations for pro-innovation policies that can help make the UK the AI capital of Europe.
New funding to build towards AGI
Today we’re announcing new funding—$40B at a $300B post-money valuation, which enables us to push the frontiers of AI research even further, scale our compute infrastructure, and deliver increasingly powerful tools for the 500 million people who use ChatGPT every week.
How Hugging Face Scaled Secrets Management for AI Infrastructure
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🚀 Accelerating LLM Inference with TGI on Intel Gaudi
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Moving from intent-based bots to proactive AI agents
Moving from intent-based bots to proactive AI agents.
Open R1: Update #4
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Security on the path to AGI
At OpenAI, we proactively adapt, including by building comprehensive security measures directly into our infrastructure and models.
Training and Finetuning Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers
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Introducing 4o Image Generation
At OpenAI, we have long believed image generation should be a primary capability of our language models. That’s why we’ve built our most advanced image generator yet into GPT‑4o. The result—image generation that is not only beautiful, but useful.
Addendum to GPT-4o System Card: 4o image generation
4o image generation is a new, significantly more capable image generation approach than our earlier DALL·E 3 series of models. It can create photorealistic output. It can take images as inputs and transform them.
Automating 90% of finance and legal work with agents
Hebbia’s deep research automates 90% of finance and legal work, powered by OpenAI
Leadership updates
OpenAI has grown a lot. We remain focused on the same core—pursuing frontier AI research that accelerates human progress–but we now also deliver products used by hundreds of millions of people.
Introducing Gradio's new Dataframe!
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