Gigantic week for OpenAI! The company is basically applying every tech industry playbook at the same time, and it seems to be working. The company is adding applications to ChatGPT in an attempt to transform the chatbot into something more like an operating system. Offers developers recent tools to add ChatGPT to existing applications. It strikes huge, somewhat circuitous deals with every chip company in the world. And, oh yeah, it basically builds ChatGPTikTok.
ON this episode Vergecastwe cover everything OpenAI does. EdgeHayden Field was at the Dev Day event this week and takes David and Jake on a tour of the atmosphere, announcements, and sometimes very confusing justifications for why OpenAI does what it does. She also tells us what she learned from listening to Jony Ive talk about AI devices, which was nothing. She didn’t learn anything.
The gang then discusses what’s going on with Sora, OpenAI’s recent popular social network. Regardless of what you think about an AI-generated future of everything, there’s no denying that it exists a different and more fascinating story about Sora. We still don’t know if the app will work once the novelty wears off, but even if it doesn’t, OpenAI is pretty good at creating these cultural moments. They will be different, for better and for worse.
If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first on OpenAI:
And in the lightning round: