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On Monday, OpenAI said it fixed an error in ChatGPT where it appeared that the chatbot was messaging users without being prompted to do so. ChatGPT proactively asked a user “How was your first week at high school?” The person posted a bizarre exchange on Reddit, where they asked the AI chatbot “Did you message just me first?” The company claims that the error occurred because a previous message hadn’t been delivered correctly.

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Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of the software giant, is earmarking another $500 million to generative AI companies, bringing the total funding that it has devoted to AI startups in the last 18 months to $1 billion, Forbes reported. Through the firm’s generative AI fund, it has backed leading startups in the space like Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral and Hugging Face.

Also notable: World Labs, a startup cofounded by Stanford scientist and “godmother of AI” Fei Fei Li, has raised $230 million from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Radical Ventures to build spatial intelligence through AI models that can understand and interact with objects and places in the physical world.

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OpenAI released a new family of large language models called OpenAI o1. They are designed to take more time than GPT models before they respond to queries so that they can hash out different ways to answer a question and provide better, more accurate responses. They are........

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