Dispatches From the Frontiers of AI

The latest models, capabilities, products, and use cases.

May 31, 2024

How Language Models Work

A 100-percent jargon-free guide

Jul 26, 2024

AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions

Navigating one-way-door decisions with a little prompting

May 22, 2024

GPT-5 Is Coming: Reading Between the Lines at Microsoft Build

News and notes from the AI-everything developer conference

Nov 30, 2023

How I Use ChatGPT (As A Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Aug 9, 2024

Review: ChatGPT’s New Advanced Voice Mode

AI’s new voice is a leap into the future

May 3, 2024

The Next Big Programming Language Is English

I spent 24 hours with AI coding assistant Github Copilot Workspace

Aug 30, 2024

OpenAI’s New Model, Strawberry, Explained

ChatGPT’s next big evolution lies in its ability to solve the ‘strawberry’ problem

Aug 8, 2024

The Horny Truth About AI Chatbots

What our digital companions reveal about human loneliness

Jun 10, 2024

How AI Image Models Work

An entirely non-technical explanation of image generators

Sep 6, 2024

Why Generalists Own the Future

In the age of AI, it’s better to know a little about a lot than a lot about a little

Aug 21, 2024

The Mantra of This AI Age: Don’t Repeat Yourself

AI won't kill your job. But it will steal your repetitive tasks.

Feb 23, 2024

I Spent a Week With Gemini Pro 1.5—It’s Fantastic

When it comes to context windows, size matters

Feb 16, 2024

How Sora Works (And What It Means)

OpenAI's new text-to-video model heralds a new form of filmmaking

Nov 3, 2023

Is Chat the Future of AI?

The promise and perils of chat and ChatGPT

Jan 29, 2024

How AI Works

An entirely non-technical explanation of LLMs

Jun 23, 2023

What I Do When I Can’t Sleep

AI, insomnia, and the articulation of taste

Dec 16, 2022

I Built an AI Chatbot Based on My Favorite Podcast

Here’s how I built it and what I learned about the future

Jan 13, 2023

GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used

My slow and steady progression to living out the plot of the movie 'Her'

Jan 20, 2023

Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future?

I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3—and started asking it questions

Mar 3, 2023

How to Make AI Write Like Your Favorite Author

A step-by-step guide from prompting to fine-tuning

Mar 31, 2023

GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

Jun 23, 2024

Spiraling Out of Control

Our new AI tool, plus a step change in AI models

Aug 15, 2024

Introducing Sparkle

Organize your files automatically—with AI

Oct 1, 2024

Everything OpenAI Launched at DevDay

A real-time API, prompt caching, higher rate limits, model distillation tools, and more

Oct 3, 2024

OpenAI Launches a Document and Code Editor Integrated Into ChatGPT

Canvas is an Artifacts competitor aiming at the future of AI-human collaboration

Oct 11, 2024

Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines

AI is turning science into engineering—with unprecedented changes for how we see the world

Oct 18, 2024

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Nov 1, 2024

Writing as a Way of Thinking

Why managers might offer our best clue about AI’s impact on writing

Nov 14, 2024

Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall?

No.

Nov 18, 2024

The End of Productivity

Why creativity is the new currency of success

Dec 11, 2024

Introducing Our First Synthetic Show: ‘TLDR’

Your business is an epic story. Tell it with ‘TLDR.’

Dec 10, 2024

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s Sora

The text-to-video model is finally available