OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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[pricing-history] OpenAI said price per 1M tokens fell 97% from GPT-4 to GPT-5.4, signalling continued pricing leverage and rapid repricing.
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OpenAI said its amended agreement with Microsoft keeps Microsoft as OpenAIs primary cloud partner, makes Microsofts IP license non-exclusive, and lets OpenAI serve products across any cloud provider.
· openai.com partnership
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Altman wrote that OpenAI's earlier worry about releasing GPT-2 weights was, in retrospect, a misplaced worry. (REVERSAL)
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Altman wrote that power should not sit with a small handful of companies controlling superintelligence, and that OpenAI wants truly general AI in as many hands as possible.
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Altman wrote that there may be periods when OpenAI should collaborate with governments, international agencies and other AGI efforts before proceeding further if serious alignment, safety or societal problems are not sufficiently solved.
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Altman wrote that OpenAI is buying huge amounts of compute, vertically integrating and pushing to build datacenters around the world because it believes in a future of universal prosperity.
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OpenAI said enterprise now makes up more than 40% of its revenue, while its APIs process more than 15 billion tokens per minute.
· openai.com revenue
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Altman said that highly capable open-source models for cyber exploits are coming soon, so the world will need AI-powered defensive shields in cyber and biosecurity.
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Altman said the world is 'very close now' to extremely capable systems and that systems smarter than humans in some important ways are coming quite soon.
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Altman said the compute crunch 'never goes away' and that the way to democratise AI is to make so much infrastructure available that the technology becomes cheap.
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[financial-fragility] Closed a funding round with $122B in committed capital at an $852B post-money valuation.
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OpenAI said it closed a funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.
· openai.com financing