OpenAI DevDay / Tweet / Grok / GPTs
2023 Nov Week 2 Datumo Newsletter
Editor: H.J Kwon
📰 AI Celebrity Tweets, OpenAI and xAI.

Introducing GPTs. OpenAI.


The second week of November was filled with a lot of news in the AI industry. On November 2, the "AI Safety Summit" was held in the UK, attended by prominent global leaders and big tech executives. On November 5, Musk unveiled a new chatbot 'Grok' from his company xAI, and on November 6, OpenAI's first developer conference 'DevDay' took place.


These significant events have been the talk of the town in various AI communities, including Twitter and developer forums. In today's newsletter, we will lightly share some notable community news :)

Elon’s gonna Elon.
Source: Michael Nunez's X. link


In an interesting coincidence, Elon Musk tweeted about his company's chatbot 'Grok' just before OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stage for the keynote speech at DevDay. Michael Nunez, Editorial Director of the Silicon Valley IT specialty media VentureBeat, asked Sam Altman about this.
  
VentureBeat: Why do you think Elon Musk chose to share Grok news days before DevDay and again today moments after OpenAI’s announcements? Is there still bad blood there? What’s the deal?

Sam Altman: “Elon’s gonna Elon.”

Sam appeared to be largely unfazed in his response, and VentureBeat reported on this matter stating "Musk tries to steal OpenAI's spotlight."


*Article link, 'OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shrugs off Elon Musk in AI arms race'

Achievements in Four Years
Source: Greg Brockman's X. link

Here is a tweet from Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of OpenAI. He noted on the 7th that the first commit to the OpenAI API codebase, which is the act of saving and sharing a record of code writing, was made less than four years ago from today.


As of now, there are approximately 2 million API developers using the OpenAI API, and ChatGPT has about 100 million Weekly Active Users (WAU).


The 'GPT-1 (Improving language understanding with unsupervised learning)' was released in June 2018, 'GPT-2 (Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners)' in February 2019, 'GPT-3 (Language Models are Few-Shot Learners)' in March 2020, and 'ChatGPT (Introducing ChatGPT)' in November 2023.


It's quite remarkable how densely OpenAI's timeline has been filled in!

AI Regulation, Not 'pulling up the ladder'
Source: Greg Brockman's X. link

On the day after the AI Safety Summit in the UK, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, tweeted in response to criticisms that could imply that his advocacy for regulation and oversight of AI might be a 'pulling up the ladder' tactic against upcoming companies.


He acknowledges that the message "regulate us, but not the smaller competitors" can sometimes lead to misunderstandings and criticism, but he believes that conveying this message is important enough to take that risk.

Passing OpenAI DevDay,
Image. OpenAI HQ.

After DevDay, there's a noticeable stir in the domestic startup scene. This seems to be because a significant part of OpenAI's announcements was directly related to the core business models (BM) of AI startups or involved functionalities that are under development.

On social media, there were more posts than usual, and there is a rapidly shared perception that solutions which only facilitate the use of simple GPT and Large Language Models (LLMs) without unique technological competitiveness or domain expertise will no longer be as competitive.


Although the announcements were astonishing, they weren't unpredictable. During a visit to OpenAI's headquarters by SelectStar in July, a representative mentioned, "OpenAI will not directly create specific vertical services (like a GPT lawyer) but will enable a variety of businesses and individuals to easily create their own GPT, fostering an open ecosystem," which had already been revealed.


The 'plugins', 'Custom Instructions', 'Function Call', and 'GPT-4V features' that have been steadily added since the release of ChatGPT were sequential updates for the GPTs and Assistants API that was unveiled on the 7th.


It's intriguing to think about what the future of data, artificial intelligence, and businesses will look like, especially in more sharp and specialized areas. :)

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