OpenAI has experienced a series of abrupt resignations among its leadership and key personnel since November 2023. From co-founders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman to Jan Leike, the former head of the company’s “Super Alignment” team,

Another OpenAI safety researcher has left the company. In a post on X, Steven Adler called the global race toward AGI a “very risky gamble.” OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler announced on Monday he had left OpenAI late last year after four years at the company.

Top AI experts have expressed serious concerns that the race to create AGI could lead to catastrophic consequences, including human extinction.

Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok owner ByteDance released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions.

After DeepSeek's results, no wonder some NVIDIA investors are questioning their faith in unlimited demand for the most powerful AI chips.

High-Flyer, a quantitative hedge fund, built a $13.79 billion portfolio utilizing AI, but in 2023, shifted focus to AGI development. This move involved creating DeepSeek, an independent research unit applauded for its advanced models.

The tech and financial worlsd lost their collective minds yesterday when news broke that a Chinese quant shop, DeepSeek, had suddenly taken the lead in the AI race. There are a bunch of different plot lines here, but they’re really all about the same story: China’s bid to become the Pacific hegemon.

François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier AI systems with novel designs.

Flyer, built a 100 billion yuan ($13.79 billion) portfolio using artificial intelligence models to make investment decisions, but in 2023 decided to change track to focus on developing the most cutting-edge AI.

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Altman said that a project like Stargate might not have been possible with "a different president."

China tech giant Alibaba unveiled a new Qwen 2.5 AI model, claiming it outperforms DeepSeek, the rival AI that sent Nvidia stock tumbling.