Topic: openai
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OpenAI's Sora Surpasses 1 Million Downloads
Sora, OpenAI's social AI video app, achieved over one million downloads in under five days, outpacing ChatGPT's initial adoption despite being invite-only and launching on iOS in the U.S. and Canada. The app features a "cameos" function for personalizing videos and has generated a mix of memes, d...
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Hits $10B Valuation with $2B Funding
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, reached a $10 billion valuation after raising $2 billion in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Despite being only six months old, the startup attracted major investment and top AI talent, leveraging Murati's reputation for breakt...
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DARPA Announces $4M AI Cyber Challenge Winners in Security Showdown
Team Atlanta won DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) with a $4 million prize, developing AI solutions for critical infrastructure protection with experts from Georgia Tech and Samsung Research. Trail of Bits and Theori secured second and third place, contributing open-source cyber reasoning system...
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Microsoft's NLWeb Project Expands Chatbots on Webpages
Microsoft's NLWeb initiative simplifies AI chatbot integration for websites, allowing businesses to add conversational interfaces with minimal coding and customization across industries. NLWeb supports MCP (Model-Connection Protocol), enabling AI models to access website content, which Microsoft ...
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Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisers
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new AI venture, Thinking Machines Lab, has gained two new prominent advisers, Bob McGrew and Alec Radford.
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Google Lens Can Now Identify Nano Bananas
Google Lens now integrates the Nano Banana image generation tool directly into Google Search, enabling users to create and transform images seamlessly within the app. The feature is demonstrated through a video and screenshots, showing how visual concepts can quickly become generated artwork usin...
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