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OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues
In less than a week, the Pentagon blacklisted an AI company for having ethics, declared it a supply chain risk, watched its preferred replacement face a massive user revolt, and then sat down to am…

Amazon seeks cheaper AI alternatives as Anthropic shifts to token-based pricing
Amazon is exploring OpenAI as an alternative to Claude after a renegotiated contract with Anthropic will raise costs through token-based pricing.

Reflections on OpenAI
I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024.
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek | TechCrunch
OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.

Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
The memo directly mentioned OpenAI’s intensifying competition with Anthropic.

OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts
Reddit’s signed AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI.

Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding
But neither one is all that good.

OpenAI finalises $10 billion joint venture with PE firms to deploy AI - The Economic Times
OpenAI has launched a new venture, The Deployment Company. It has secured over $4 billion from 19 investors. This company will focus on helping businesses integrate OpenAI's AI software. The venture is valued at $10 billion and will be controlled by OpenAI. This move aims to boost AI adoption across various sectors. Rival Anthropic is also exploring similar strategies.
OpenAI closes The Deployment Company, a $10bn enterprise AI bet on private equity
OpenAI has finalised The Deployment Company, a $10bn joint venture with TPG, Brookfield, Bain, and 16 other investors.

A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI
One estimate suggests that OpenAI has about as much compute as the entire Chinese AI industry.

Is OpenAI dead yet?
Tracking the demise of OpenAI. Is it dead yet? Check here to find out.

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie

OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI push
OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment to help organizations build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, and will acquire an AI consulting firm, Tomoro, to quickly scale up the unit. After its early models saw strong resonance with consumers, OpenAI has been working aggressively to sign corporate contracts and establish a large presence in the business world where its AI will see large-scale deployment. The new firm, called OpenAI Deployment Company, will help the ChatGPT maker embed engineers specializing in frontier AI deployment into organizations that will then work closely with various teams to identify where AI can make the biggest impact, OpenAI said.
OpenAI can’t tell if something was written by AI after all
OpenAI’s tool struggled with accuracy.

