In 2015, OpenAI launched with a mission "to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." The founders chose a nonprofit structure specifically to avoid, in their own words, "advancing the private gain of any person." Top researchers reportedly turned down offers worth two to
San Francisco has become the capital of autonomous vehicles, with Waymo's white Jaguars completing over 250,000 paid rides weekly across the city. The robotaxis are everywhere—so much so that they've woven themselves into the fabric of daily life. But back in July, engineer Riley
At its DevDay 2025 conference, OpenAI unveiled something unexpected: physical trophies for API customers. Not for building innovative products or solving hard problems—for spending money on tokens. The program, called "Tokens of Appreciation," rewards developers at three tiers: silver for 10 billion tokens, black for 100 billion,
Imagine spending $100 million to train an AI model with hundreds of billions of parameters, only to watch it fail at solving a basic puzzle. But now imagine a researcher in Montreal building a model with just 7 million parameters—trained on a fraction of the budget—that beats your
Imagine building six nuclear power plants' worth of computing infrastructure. Now imagine doing it twice in two weeks. Now imagine doing it with less than $20 billion in actual cash on hand while your company burns through $2.5 billion every six months. Welcome to OpenAI's October.
Imagine buying a premium television for thousands of dollars, only to have the manufacturer push a software update that fills your screen with commercials. Now imagine that same logic applied to every appliance in your home, your washing machine, your oven, your refrigerator. The device you paid a premium for