This week’s top tech news includes major announcements from OpenAI, Apple, and other companies. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman unveiled the successors to its o1 reasoning model family, o3 and o3-mini, which are available for safety researchers to preview.
Meanwhile, Apple is reportedly planning to launch two foldable devices in the coming years, with a focus on a giant, foldable iPad. The company has also upgraded its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with firmware v11, adding “live AI” that lets wearers converse with Meta AI in real-time.
In other news, UnitedHealth’s Optum left an AI chatbot exposed to the internet, raising concerns about data security and medical decision-making. Databricks has decided to wait until at least 2025 before going public, citing uncertainty and a desire to let early employees cash out.
Other notable tech developments include Oura’s $200 million funding round, Tesla’s return of free Supercharging for life on some Model S cars, Google DeepMind’s new video-generating AI called Veo 2, and Perplexity’s acquisition of Carbon. The week also saw GitHub launch a free version of its Copilot tool and Apple announce plans to take on the Sora video-generating AI from OpenAI.
As we head into the holiday break, we’ll be taking a well-deserved pause. Stay tuned for more tech news in the new year!
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/21/openai-announces-new-o3-model-but-you-cant-use-it-yet