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119 OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of ‘GPT’ AI Improvements Slows

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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information 1 place · 11/09/2024 16:47 EDT

The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring. The rate of improvement for the basic building blocks underpinning them appears to be slowing down, though.

The situation has prompted OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, to cook up new techniques for boosting those building blocks, known as large language models, to make up for the slowdown.

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