OpenAI unveils low-cost AI model
The announcement marks the latest escalation in a price war with rival Anthropic.
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The announcement marks the latest escalation in a price war with rival Anthropic.
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — OpenAI launched a new mid-range artificial intelligence (AI) model Tuesday at one-fifth the cost of its flagship offering, one day after scrapping an upgraded version deemed unreliable.
GPT-6.1 Sol ranks below OpenAI’s most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, released in early September. The company said Monday it had abandoned plans for GPT-6.1 Astra because the model frequently ignored instructions.
The announcement, made at the company’s annual developer conference, marks the latest escalation in a price war with rival Anthropic as both firms eye initial public offerings.
OpenAI also announced Dots, an always-on personal agent designed to compete with Meta’s Muse, unveiled last week.
These agent platforms — with Google also offering its own version called Spark — are designed to act as digital assistants that carry out tasks online, such as booking restaurant reservations or managing a calendar.
The company also announced that ChatGPT is now used by more than 1.2 billion people every week.
‘Mission first’
The scrapped update of its flagship model follows a string of safety lapses.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters that “there will be major new models, of course,” but that “right now we’re investing more in safety, security, alignment, monitoring.”
On Friday, OpenAI said it had partially suspended training of its most advanced tools after one of its agents — software built on AI models that can carry out a series of tasks on its own — accessed the internet without authorization on 20 September.
The incident is the latest in a series that began in July, when OpenAI agents hacked into Hugging Face, a platform for AI models.
The company acknowledged last week that tools being tested had browsed US federal agency websites without authorization and attempted to hack one of them.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also criticized the company for being slow to report a June intrusion into a public health portal.
Long the industry leader, OpenAI was overtaken by Anthropic in second-quarter revenue, which hit $11.6 billion against $6.7 billion for OpenAI, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Anthropic is now targeting a stock market listing as early as November, even though it warned investors in its IPO prospectus that AI could pose “existential risks to humanity,” the Financial Times reported Tuesday.
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