OpenAI’s ‘Extinction Event’ For Other AI Startups

Despite Elon Musk’s attempts to steal the spotlight, the AI community gave its undivided attention on Monday to OpenAI’s first-ever live event for developers and the press. 

The large-language model developer didn’t announce any mind-blowing research breakthroughs, but several of its product improvements undoubtedly will hurt some smaller, high-profile startups and light a fire under bigger competitors such as Anthropic and Meta Platforms. OpenAI also cut prices and said it would protect customers from copyright claims, filling a glaring gap with some rivals. 

(And in case you needed another reason to keep up with our AI coverage, dedicated readers of The Information already knew about a number of today’s announcements—for example, months ago we reported on the new ability to create custom chatbots and plans for an “app store” for those chatbots, two major releases from today’s developer day.) 

If you didn’t tune in to the keynote (in which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a fun, if slightly awkward, appearance), here’s what you missed: