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conference signals OpenAI's ambition to expand beyond a consumer
sensation to becoming a provider of a hit developer platform,
and CEO Sam Altman has teased attendees with the promise of
"some great new stuff."
The one-day event, in a desolate area of San Francisco near City
Hall, is attracting hundreds of developers from around the
world. The burgeoning AI sector has been a bright spot for San
Francisco's economy, which has struggled to bounce back from the
pandemic.
After toiling in relative obscurity for years, OpenAI kicked off
the generative AI craze last November by releasing ChatGPT, the
darling chatbot of Silicon Valley that became one of the world's
fastest growing consumer applications. Generative AI can, using
past data, create brand new content like fully formed text,
images and software code.
Backed by billions of dollars from Microsoft, OpenAI has become
for many the default version of generative AI, helping users
spin up term papers, contracts, travel itineraries and even
entire novels.
OpenAI is expected to announce updates focused on slashing costs
for its developers, as well as new vision capabilities, Reuters
previously reported. Cost-cutting addresses a major concern for
partners whose spending on OpenAI's powerful models could pile
up quickly as they try to build sustainable businesses by
developing and selling AI software.
The vision capabilities, which will enable OpenAI's software to
analyze images and describe them, will enable developers to
build applications with new uses in fields from entertainment to
medicine.
Another announcement could be an ability to fine-tune GPT-4, its
most advanced AI model, which the company previously said would
be coming in the fall.
These updates are designed to encourage companies to use
OpenAI's technology to build AI-powered chatbots and autonomous
agents that can perform tasks without human intervention. Making
OpenAI indispensable to other companies building apps is among
the most important strategic objectives for Altman, sources
familiar with his thinking said.
(Reporting by Anna Tong and Krystal Hu in San Francisco; Editing
by Richard Chang)
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