Amir Efrati

In the artificial intelligence race, competition is fierce. Every big AI developer is watching rivals like a hawk and trying to reverse-engineer or copy their best work, as we’ve reported.

After releasing an initial version of its o1 reasoning model, o1-preview, last week, new details are emerging about a smaller but faster version of the model, o1-mini.

A lot happened toward the end of last week. For starters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever. Photos by Getty.

OpenAI and Microsoft soared to new heights by developing and sharing artificial intelligence, specialized servers and product revenue with each other. Microsoft’s cash has paid for nearly all of that work.

Before we get to today’s column, please read this phenomenal piece from Aaron about Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s market analysis methods. Hint: they involve an absurd number of meetings and calls with people outside his company. It’s a leadership masterclass.

Nvidia and OpenAI may get the headlines, but their microprocessors and artificial intelligence wouldn’t be possible without the good people of Taiwan—specifically, more than 70,000 employees and leaders of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.A few years ago, my colleague Wayne took readers ...

Much has changed at OpenAI since President Greg Brockman took a sabbatical. His expected return will test how well he can coexist with CEO Sam Altman and others.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a multibillion-dollar business in large part because programmers use it to write and check their code, fix bugs and translate code into different programming languages.

Last fall, several Google artificial intelligence leaders met with Jonathan Siddharth, CEO of a startup that sells access to part-time software engineers on demand.