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OpenAI will host its first developer convention on November 6

September 08, 2023

OpenAI will host a developer convention — its first ever — on November 6, the corporate announced at this time.

On the one-day OpenAI DevDay occasion, which can function a keynote handle and breakout periods led by members of OpenAI’s technical employees, OpenAI stated in a weblog submit that it’ll preview “new instruments and alternate 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 photographs, OpenAI has reportedly been holding the image-processing capabilities again on fears of privateness points.)

This reporter wouldn’t be stunned to see new methods for watermarking AI-generated content material, 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 as a result of poor efficiency; maybe we’ll get some form of successor at DevDay.

Whereas DevDay might be a largely in-person affair, elements of the convention, together with the keynote, might be streamed on-line. Registration will open within the coming weeks, with attendance to be capped at “a whole bunch” of builders, OpenAI says.

“We’re wanting ahead to exhibiting our newest work to allow builders to construct new issues,” Altman stated in a canned assertion.

Why host a developer day? Within the weblog submit, OpenAI makes the case that its developer neighborhood is giant sufficient to justify it. Over 2 million builders use the startup’s vary of generative AI instruments, together with its giant language fashions GPT-4 and ChatGPT, text-to-image mannequin DALL-E 2 and computerized speech recognition mannequin Whisper.

Developer conferences are additionally a advertising and marketing alternative. And OpenAI is on the hunt for a industrial win.

Whereas ChatGPT achieved world fame, OpenAI — backed by billions in enterprise capital from Microsoft and main VC gamers — allegedly spent upward of $540 million final 12 months to develop it, together with funds it used to poach expertise from the likes of Google and Meta, according to The Data.

The corporate seems to be effectively on the trail to profitability — reportedly, it might usher in $1 billion in income subsequent 12 months — however with the competition increasing and the price of AI {hardware} skyrocketing, OpenAI can’t afford to relaxation on its laurels.