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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.
Early methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being on ChatGPT
An OpenAI and MIT Media Lab Research collaboration.
The New and Fresh analytics in Inference Endpoints
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Personalizing travel at scale with OpenAI
By integrating its data systems with OpenAI’s LLMs, Booking.com delivers smarter search, faster support, and intent-driven travel experiences.
Introducing next-generation audio models in the API
For the first time, developers can also instruct the text-to-speech model to speak in a specific way—for example, “talk like a sympathetic customer service agent”—unlocking a new level of customization for voice agents.
Open R1: How to use OlympicCoder locally for coding
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AI Policy @🤗: Response to the White House AI Action Plan RFI
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EliseAI improves housing and healthcare efficiency with AI
A conversation with Minna Song, CEO & Co-founder of EliseAI.
New in ChatGPT for Business: March 2025
Join us as we share our latest releases and how ChatGPT is becoming more interactive, customized to the way your teams work, and agentic.
NVIDIA's GTC 2025 Announcement for Physical AI Developers: New Open Models and Datasets
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Xet is on the Hub
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The court rejects Elon’s latest attempt to slow OpenAI down
We welcome the court’s March 4, 2025, decision rejecting Elon Musk’s latest attempt to slow down OpenAI for his personal benefit.
Driving growth and ‘WOW’ moments with OpenAI
LY Corporation: Driving growth and ‘WOW’ moments with OpenAI
Welcome Gemma 3: Google's all new multimodal, multilingual, long context open LLM
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Open R1: Update #3
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New tools for building agents
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LeRobot goes to driving school: World’s largest open-source self-driving dataset
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Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models
Frontier reasoning models exploit loopholes when given the chance. We show we can detect exploits using an LLM to monitor their chains-of-thought. Penalizing their “bad thoughts” doesn’t stop the majority of misbehavior—it makes them hide their intent.
Nubank elevates customer experiences with OpenAI
Nubank elevates customer experiences with OpenAI
LLM Inference on Edge: A Fun and Easy Guide to run LLMs via React Native on your Phone!
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Accelerating engineering cycles 20% with OpenAI
Accelerating engineering cycles 20% with OpenAI.
LaunchDarkly's approach to AI-powered product management
A conversation with Claire Vo, Chief Product Officer of LaunchDarkly, about the changing role of product managers, her anti-to-do list, and building AI-native teams.
Introducing NextGenAI
OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions.
Hugging Face and JFrog partner to make AI Security more transparent
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A Deepdive into Aya Vision: Advancing the Frontier of Multilingual Multimodality
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1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session
OpenAI and nine national labs bring together leading scientists for first-of-its kind event.