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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.
OpenAI nonprofit jam
At OpenAI, we build tools to help people solve hard problems—including nonprofits working on the frontlines of their communities. The OpenAI Academy is teaming up with the Walton Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, and a network of local nonprofit organizations to host the Nonprofit Jam—a one-day...
Statement from the OpenAI Board of Directors on the Nonprofit Commission Report
The Board of Directors thanks the members of the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission for their extensive work and engagement.
Invideo AI uses OpenAI models to create videos 10x faster
Invideo AI uses OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, gpt-image-1, and text-to-speech models to transform creative ideas into professional videos in minutes.
Consilium: When Multiple LLMs Collaborate
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Back to The Future: Evaluating AI Agents on Predicting Future Events
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Five Big Improvements to Gradio MCP Servers
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Discord for Business Vol. 2: Cannes-worthy ad product updates
Built-in rewards, brand lift analytics, mobile Quests… and our Cannes highlights!
Ettin Suite: SoTA Paired Encoders and Decoders
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Bringing data from Amazon S3 into Redpanda Serverless
Learn how to set up a data pipeline from Amazon S3 to Redpanda complete with in-stream transformation logic and zero custom infrastructure.
Intellectual freedom by design
ChatGPT is designed to be useful, trustworthy, and adaptable—so you can make it your own.
Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet
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Reward Your Play: Complete Quests. Earn Orbs. Get Sweet Stuff.
Introducing a new type of Quest reward: Discord Orbs! Earn them by completing Quests and redeem them in the Shop for hundreds of different items — including Discord Nitro credit. Available on desktop and mobile.
The EU Code of Practice and future of AI in Europe
OpenAI joins the EU Code of Practice, advancing responsible AI while partnering with European governments to drive innovation, infrastructure, and economic growth.
Kimina-Prover: Applying Test-time RL Search on Large Formal Reasoning Models
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Asynchronous Robot Inference: Decoupling Action Prediction and Execution
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ScreenEnv: Deploy your full stack Desktop Agent
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Building the Hugging Face MCP Server
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Reachy Mini - The Open-Source Robot for Today's and Tomorrow's AI Builders
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Creating custom kernels for the AMD MI300
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Upskill your LLMs With Gradio MCP Servers
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Working with 400,000 teachers to shape the future of AI in schools
OpenAI partners with the American Federation of Teachers to launch a 5-year initiative equipping 400,000 K-12 educators to lead AI innovation in classrooms.
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Track real-time ad analytics with Snowflake (the easy way)
Learn how to build scalable, high-performance pipelines for digital advertising use cases with Snowflake and Redpanda — a developer-first real-time data platform.
SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner
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Three Mighty Alerts Supporting Hugging Face’s Production Infrastructure
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