OpenAI Acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder
OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the…
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OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the…
New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report…
OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it…
We describe our solution for the 2026 BEHAVIOR Challenge: 100 long-horizon household tasks in the OmniGibson simulator. We placed 9th on the final leaderboard, the only independent team in the top 10. The core of the solution is a single vision-language-action (VLA) model, one checkpoint for all 100 tasks, built on our 1st-place 2025 solution, which is based on π_{0.5}. On the 50 tasks shared with 2025, its Q rises from 0.260 to 0.371; across all 100 tasks it scores 0.392. Our main conclusion from 2025 was that the model was undertrained, so most of the 2026 work went into training the model for longer, optimizing some training parameters, making each training step slightly faster and reducing the gradient noise: a migration from 50 to 100 tasks (semantic stages built from the demonstrations' skill annotations, task and stage embeddings of new tasks warm-started from similar old ones, and a 21-dimensional action space matching the teleoperation controls); variance-reduced multi-sample flow matching with a simple noise-vs-compute model that picks the number of action-expert samples per observation without ablations; and a 200k-step training run, about one pass over the 211M frames of the demonstrations. A cloud evaluation infrastructure keeps a shared record with provenance, episode diagnostics and restorable simulator states, and runs six simulators on one GPU together faster than real time. On top of the learned policy, 14 tasks are routed to a GPT-6 Astra coding agent that controls the robot through observation and motion tools, starting every episode from a frozen copy of its own practice session on training instances. Across these 14 tasks, Astra's mean Q is 0.639, against 0.108 for the learned policy. The public submission included only part of the Astra results and scored 0.446 Q with 27.3% full-task success.
ChatGPT is going to let you chat with verified "Business Agents" that represent a brand to help you with things like comparison shopping. The feature…
For years, Anthropic has been known for its focus on enterprise and coding tools that attract high-flying corporate clients, inspiring competing frontier labs - like…
Users often complain that AI assistants such as ChatGPT are getting worse. Some versions do change, but human evaluation leaves a second possibility untested: the people judging may change. We separate the two on Chatbot Arena, a public platform where people compare answers from two anonymous large language models (LLMs) and pick the better one or say both are bad. We study 1,260,967 blind votes cast from May 2023 to August 2024 on pairs of models whose versions are fixed: dated vendor snapshots and models with fixed open weights. For the same pair of unchanged models, the share of votes saying "both are bad" rises by 1.71 percentage points a month on a mean of 17.1%, and by 1.91 points a month in 2024. In fourteen pairs observed often in both 2023 and 2024, it rose in every one, from 15.5% to 23.3%. The ranking does not trend: in 2024, the stronger model's share of decisive votes is flat. The rise holds within the same voter and on the same pair, and across arrival cohorts from their first recorded vote. It holds with prompt controls, in every major language, for dated vendor snapshots, open-weight models and models with stable answer length, and between interface changes. The drift is shared across models: month effects estimated from other models' pairs remove it from each model's own pairs. Platform-wide, the average model would be expected to score 78% against the 2023 average, yet the share of "both are bad" votes ended near where it began. The pattern fits a standard that follows the category's progress, so a product that stands still is judged as declining. Absolute verdicts on AI drifted while relative comparisons held steady, an evaluation drift that matters for LLM leaderboards and for the human feedback used to train models.
Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group of "cybersecurity defenders"…
Anthropic confirmed on Tuesday that its IPO could be one of the biggest ever, even while falling short of previous expectations. Its IPO price is…
Emergencies can occur where there is no phone signal and no ambulance nearby. A small language model on a phone can be helpful in such situations, but its advice needs to be safe and accurate. We built HandsOnAid, a 4-bit Gemma 2B model fine-tuned with QLoRA on FirstAidQA dataset, a corpus of 5,550 first-aid question-answer pairs. We compared seven configurations, including the base, 4-bit and 8-bit fine-tuned models, and versions with a length floor, safety gate, or retrieval. We used a 41-pair question-answer bank with medically reviewed references that followed ANZCOR guidelines, and a strict 0-5 score rubric, with twelve safety overrides. Four frontier LLM judges (GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 5, DeepSeek V4 Pro, GLM-5.3) blindly scored every answer, with 45 hidden controls used to check judge reliability. Fine-tuning improved the mean score by +1.08 over the base model to 2.34. The best configuration scored 2.51 out of 5 which was the fine-tuned 4-bit model with retrieval. A medical professional also conducted a blind evaluation of 40 answers across the base, the 4-bit fine-tuned, and the retrieval configurations, and the scores were similar to the LLM judges' average scores. A keyword audit found limited coverage of several details of ANZCOR guidelines in the training corpus, that are required by the rubric, which suggests that missing information in the training data could be a cause of the low scores. On a smartphone device (Pixel 7 Pro) with six CPU threads and no network connection, the 4-bit fine-tuned model produced its first displayable text in 6.86 seconds and a complete answer in 14.88 seconds on average over ten questions.
OpenAI Academy is bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to caregivers in five U.S. cities, helping them build practical AI skills for everyday life.
Explainable AI (XAI) has expanded into a broad and impactful research area, but the fundamental question of how best to evaluate explanation techniques has proven frustratingly elusive. Methodologies typically revolve around either proxy metrics which tell us little about the utility of an explanation, or human evaluation which---while generally considered the gold standard---is expensive, difficult to scale, and challenging to reproduce. In this paper, we investigate if Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can act as surrogate human participants to automate the evaluation of XAI. To do this, we first propose a ``purpose-grounded'' evaluation framework with metrics applicable to both MLLMs and human users alike. Then, we offer some conceptual insights as to why and when we can trust these models to automate this process. Lastly, we conduct extensive empirical testing across five purpose-grounded areas such as model improvement and fourteen popular MLLMs. Results indicate that all models trend positively, but OpenAI and Qwen models generally show higher alignment compared to other variants, which would be the recommended choices in practice. We expect our insights not to replace user testing, but rather to help XAI researchers complement their current evaluation methodologies and move the field away from heavy reliance on proxy metrics for measuring explanation utility.
Manage your business information, get insights about how your business shows up, and turn interest into action in ChatGPT.
Lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships and new ThinkYoung research. Supporting teachers, AI literacy and independent learning.
Discover how Singapore Airlines uses OpenAI models and API to enhance customer support, travel discovery, and employee productivity, doubling CSAT for its Kris chatbot.
New research from OpenAI and Upwork finds shifting demand for freelance work, new skill combinations, and larger budgets and more hours for AI-related projects.
We introduce SafeRoute-MAS, a coverage-aware, risk-calibrated procedure that keeps all specialist messages or removes one using only pre-integration information. On a sealed cache of 5,328 committees, its source-compatible operating point gains +1.80 percentage points (95% CI [+1.13, +2.52]) while removing 12.76% of message tokens. We also run 4,580 controlled integrations over a stratified 458-committee sample on a public gpt-oss-120b endpoint. The sample estimate is -0.09 points; design weighting to the original workload gives +0.94 points (95% CI [-1.31, +3.50]) and 18.72% acted-input reduction. A weighted token-matched comparison likewise does not establish a selector advantage (+1.68 points, CI [-1.27, +5.10]). Only 13 of 88 cached non-neutral labels (14.8%) retain direction by repeated-call majority. Expected-corruption UCL is 4.60% after weighting, but only 2 of 11 prespecified marginals pass the support/risk rule. We therefore propose a numerical qualification with Keep-All fallback, applied here retrospectively rather than validated prospectively.
Cogent combines OpenAI models with enterprise context to help automatically remediate vulnerabilities with agents.