12 days of OpenAI – Live updates from day 2 including ChatGPT, Sora, o1 and more
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Of course, OpenAI had to bring us back down to earth with another joke, but this time we didn’t hear Sam Altman laugh at it. With Christmas fast approaching and the company based in San Francisco – home to many a self-driving car – that’s pretty good.
The joke went along the lines of: We live in San Francisco, self-driving vehicles are all the rage, and Santa is trying to capitalize on this. He tries to make a self-propelled sled, but he keeps crashing into trees left and right. Any guesses? He didn’t fine-tune his models.
To help you visualize it better, Ny Breaking Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff asked ChatGPT to create an image of it.
While not necessarily consumer-facing, OpenAI welcomed Justin Reese, a rare genetic disease researcher at Berkeley University. Now in a live demo on o1 mini we try to extract the model ID genes from a sample data pool that may be responsible for a disease. Of course it will be fact checked against known results, but it is a good test for fine-tuning the gain for validation on o1 mini.
Furthermore, within o1 mini you can refine and customize this refinement process. The goal is to let you get the most out of the data by tailoring the model to your specific needs. It was noted that depending on the amount of data and the task, completion could take anywhere from seconds to hours.
The results at the end are displayed in an evaluation dashboard with different presets.
Day 2 of ’12 Days of OpenAI’ is now starting and Sam Altman is not there. Instead, some other team members are teasing a tool that will be released next year. It’s not a new model or anything in the vein of Sora, but OpenAI’s customization for models now supports gain tuning.
One of the nice things about Day 1 of OpenAI’s “12 Days of OpenAI” was how brevity it was. When Sam Altman sat down with three of his engineers, we wondered if we would be in for hours of explanations about major AI updates in every aspect of OpenAI’s business. It turned out that OpenAI spread all its news in twelve days. Yes, that means we have a lot to look forward to in the coming week, but at least we can count on news being digestible every day.
On the other hand, can we get that Sora update and release today? Please? We’re just 10 minutes away from discovering…
Here’s another prediction for the “12 Days of OpenAI” announcements: videochatGPT. You may be familiar with the Norad Santa Tracker It’s a fun way to follow Santa’s flight around the world on December 24. This year, I think it’s the perfect time for OpenAI to take it one step further with an AI Santa video call demo as part of a new AI video ChatGPT.
So imagine you’re talking to ChatGPT just like you currently do in ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode, but you’ll see a video avatar talking to you. Santa Claus would be the perfect video avatar to kick this off, and kids everywhere would love it. Let’s hope AI Santa doesn’t start hallucinating, because the result could be hilarious…
I mentioned Sora earlier, but in case you haven’t heard of the AI video generator, here’s an incredible trailer from OpenAI showing off what it’s capable of.
My personal favorite here is the prompt “a litter of golden retriever puppies playing in the snow. Their heads sticking out of the snow.”
How can AI be so cute? I can’t quite wrap my head around it.
ChatGPT uses Dall-E 3 for image generation, which is right up there with the current crop of AI image generators on the market, but it’s starting to look a bit long-winded. New upcoming AI image generators like Flux are slowly getting better and better.
Could we see a new version of Dall-E during our 12 days of OpenAI? It is a possibility that is often mentioned. If OpenAI can give us image generation that is better than Flux Pro, then it will certainly be a happy holiday season for everyone.
OpenAI o1 is now no longer available in ChatGPT. What has changed since the preview? A faster, more powerful reasoning model that’s better at coding, math, and writing.o1 now supports image uploading, allowing it to apply reasoning to images for more detailed and actionable answers. pic.twitter.com/hrLiID3MhJDecember 5, 2024
If you’re just joining us, OpenAI announced the official launch of o1 yesterday, featuring a “faster, more powerful reasoning model that’s better at coding, math, and writing.”
If you want to try it out for yourself, head over to ChatGPT and choose the o1 model from the drop-down list. Try it with your math homework or a coding challenge, you might be surprised by the results.
OpenAI’s next livestream starts at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT and you can watch it live directly from OpenAI’s website.
If you now go to the “12 days of OpenAI” section of the website, you will see a beautiful advent calendar, hinting at the exciting days ahead. Like an advent calendar, some days will be better than others, so I’m very intrigued to see if OpenAI keeps the momentum going or if today isn’t as great as yesterday.
Bookmark that link too because you can rewatch all the event highlights even if you miss any of the live streams. Or you can keep checking in with Ny Breaking as we’ll keep you updated with everything you need to know over the next week.
What are Ny Breaking’s predictions for day 2 of OpenAI’s “12 days of OpenAI,” I hear you cry? Well, Sam Altman said that we can expect “a few big ones and a few stocking stuffers” over the twelve days, and considering that we got a brand new version of ChatGPT (ChatGPT o1) yesterday, I’d predict that today’s Christmas gift from OpenAI that will be more of a “stocking stuffer” than one of the “greats”.
Maybe a small update to ChatGPT search or ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode. What am I really hoping for? I want the ChatGPT search to be rolled out to all users on the free tier. Fingers crossed!
One of the biggest announcements we expect to see in the coming week is the official launch of Sora, OpenAI’s video generator that can turn a text prompt into an incredible video.
Sora was leaked last month by disgruntled artists who accused OpenAI of exploiting it for unpaid research and development purposes. There is certainly a debate going on about how OpenAI trains its AI models, but that may be a topic for another day.
In terms of what Sora has to offer, imagine one of the best AI image generators, but video. I haven’t tried Sora yet, but from the online demos it looks pretty awesome.
OpenAI also announced ChatGPT Pro yesterday, but who is it actually intended for?
For $200/month, ChatGPT Pro gives you unlimited usage and an even smarter version of o1 with “more benefits to come!”
The fact is that for almost everyone, the current $20 per month ChatGPT Plus option will be more than enough. Maybe it can do special things (like write “David Mayer” without any problems), but it seems hard to justify expanding beyond a select few users who need massive computing power. To me, the $200 price seems more like a price anchor. Essentially, it makes the $20 ChatGPT Plus price look really good value.
Yesterday, OpenAI kicked off the 12-day event with the announcement that the company’s o1 reasoning model would no longer be in preview, ready for anyone to try.
The AI model thrives on scientific equations and math problems, with OpenAI saying o1 can solve 83% of the problems in the International Mathematical Olympiad qualifying exam, a vast improvement over GPT-4o, which scored just 13% . The new model makes fewer errors than the preview version, reducing the number of major errors by 34%.
However, that wasn’t the only revelation…
Welcome to Ny Breaking’s ’12 Days of OpenAI’ live blog, where our AI experts take you through the next 12 (well, 11) days of all the exciting stuff coming out of the world’s most famous AI company.
What will Sam Altman reveal? How will these new updates and products change the way we use artificial intelligence? Who knows, but we’re incredibly excited to find out.