OpenAI

Explore our coverage of OpenAI, its future, its legal battles and its competition


Business

Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?

Augustus Caesar goes on the open-source warpath

Schools brief

A short history of AI

In the first of six weekly briefs, we ask how AI overcame decades of underdelivering

Science and technology

Researchers are figuring out how large language models work

Such insights could help make them safer, more truthful and easier to use

Leaders

LLMs now write lots of science. Good

Easier and more lucid writing will make science faster and better

Business

A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate

Two duelling visions of the technological future 

Business

Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?

Previous scares have been overblown. This one might not be

Business

Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole

Tim Cook’s prayer to the almighty

Business

The war for AI talent is heating up

Big tech firms scramble to fill gaps as brain drain sets in

Business

G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans

Not all of them are narrowly commercial

Leaders

Three reasons why it’s good news that robots are getting smarter

They are becoming more capable, easier to program and better at explaining themselves

Science and technology

Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?

There is more to AI than ChatGPT

By Invitation

OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members

The firm is a leader in safety as well as capability, insist Bret Taylor and Larry Summers

Business

Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?

It has some advantages. But it is entering a crowded field

By Invitation

AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board

For humanity’s sake, regulation is needed to tame market forces, argue Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley

Business

Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown

A new generation of AI chips is on the way

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