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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.
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.
Staff Picks, April 2025: All The Adaptations
With all the new video game adaptations coming out in April, we’re asking Veronica, Cody, and Emi what their favorite ones have been so far and which games deserve a great adaptation that has yet to come.
MAJOR NEWS: DISCORD ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST IN-HOUSE AAAA VIDEO GAME, “THE LAST MEADOW”
Discord’s new in-house studio Big Wump Games announces its first release: The Last Meadow. Available from April 1 to April 7, 2025 exclusively on Discord.
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.
Checkpoint 2: Our First Year With Discord Quests
In 2024, we launched Quests, an innovative rewarded ad format designed for Discord’s gaming audience. Join us as we look back at over 70 campaigns run during our first year.
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.
How to Create & Upload Your Own Stickers on Discord
Stickers on Discord let you express yourself in BIG ways. Learn how to create, upload, and use stickers on Discord.
Operationalizing Macaroons
We’re Fly.io, a security bearer token company with a public cloud problem. You can read more about what our platform does (Docker container goes in, virtual machine in Singapore comes out), but this is just an engineering deep-dive into how we make our security tokens work. It’s a tokens nerd post. ...
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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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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