OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is no longer the owner of the company's affiliated venture capital fund. Altman's temporary legal control of the seed fund was for the sole purpose of getting the fund up and running as quickly as possible, OpenAI told Axios. Management has been transferred to Ian Hathaway, who has been co-managing the fund since 2021, according to new filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund was launched at the end of 2021 with $175 million, with OpenAI partner Microsoft among the investors. It now has more than $325 million in gross assets, according to SEC filings. Hathaway led the fund's accelerator program and invested in companies including Harvey, Cursor, Speak and Ambience Healthcare, according to OpenAI.
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Artificial Intelligence is present in everyday life – from “googling” to facial recognition to vacuum cleaner robots. AI tools are becoming more and more elaborate and support people and companies more effectively in their tasks, such as generating graphics, texting or coding, or interpreting large amounts of data.
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ChatGPT likes to use a number of hackneyed phrases. This allows experienced ChatGPT users to reliably recognize ChatGPT text even without detectors, which don't work anyway. X user Jeremy Nguyen has now investigated how often one of these phrases, "delve", appears in medical and scientific publications. The word appeared four times as often in 2023 as in 2022. Correlation is not causation, of course, but the statistics speak for themselves and give an idea of how generative AI might be influencing scientific publishing. Interestingly, there was also an increase in the word before the first ChatGPT year, 2023. Spell checkers, some of which also suggest synonyms and are often based on LLM technology, may play a role here.
