OpenAI will host a developer convention — its first ever — on November 6, the corporate announced immediately.
On the one-day OpenAI DevDay occasion, which is able to characteristic a keynote handle and breakout classes led by members of OpenAI’s technical employees, OpenAI mentioned in a weblog submit that it’ll preview “new instruments and trade concepts” — however left the remaining to the creativeness.
Information of GPT-5, the presumed identify of OpenAI’s subsequent flagship generative AI mannequin, is unlikely — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed in April that OpenAI wasn’t coaching GPT-5 and “wouldn’t for a while.” However we’d be taught extra about OpenAI’s plans for World Illumination, the AI design studio that it acquired in August, and an replace on the availability of GPT-4’s picture understanding capabilities. (Whereas GPT-4, OpenAI’s present main mannequin, can technically analyze and interpret photos, OpenAI has reportedly been holding the image-processing capabilities again on fears of privateness points.)
This reporter wouldn’t be shocked to see new methods for watermarking AI-generated, too, as fears of misinformative, plagiaristic AI-generated content material at scale develop. OpenAI just lately pulled its in-house device to detect AI-generated textual content attributable to poor efficiency; maybe we’ll get some type of successor at DevDay.
Whereas DevDay can be a largely in-person affair, components of the convention, together with the keynote, can be streamed on-line. Registration will open within the coming weeks, with attendance to be capped at “lots of” of builders, OpenAI says.
“We’re wanting ahead to exhibiting our newest work to allow builders to construct new issues,” Altman mentioned in a canned assertion.
Why host a developer day? Within the weblog submit, OpenAI makes the case that its developer group is massive sufficient to justify it. Over 2 million builders use the startup’s vary of generative AI instruments, together with its massive language fashions GPT-4 and ChatGPT, text-to-image mannequin DALL-E 2 and automated speech recognition mannequin Whisper.
Developer conferences are additionally a advertising alternative. And OpenAI is on the hunt for a industrial win.
Whereas ChatGPT achieved international fame, OpenAI — backed by billions in enterprise capital from Microsoft and main VC gamers — allegedly spent upward of $540 million final yr to develop it, together with funds it used to poach expertise from the likes of Google and Meta, according to The Data.