AXIOS May 2, 2024
A powerful new chatbot that showed up briefly on a testing site this week, stirring buzz among AI experts and enthusiasts, is likely from OpenAI.
The big picture: New AI tools capable of performing as well as OpenAI’s most advanced GPT-4 model are rare and cost a ton of money to build and train, which is why they usually come from one of the known big players.
- A number of signs suggest that this mystery bot is OpenAI’s — but it’s more likely to be an improvement on an existing model than a brand new one.
Driving the news: The new “gpt-2 chatbot” showed up roughly a week ago on LMSYS, a well-known site that researchers use to...