The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Sure, they use different models under the hood, but whether you're using ChatGPT , Meta AI , or Google Gemini , the experience is pretty similar. Perplexity ChatGPT Models Multiple AI models available: GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity's in-house models (Sonar and R1 1776) GPT-4.1

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. I would know: I've been writing about them for the past few years, and it feels like every time I publish an article, another new model drops. mini, o3-pro, and GPT Image 1 are three of OpenAI's latest models.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With multiple models at your disposal (from the latest o3 and o4-mini models to OpenAI's flagship multimodal GPT-4.1), it can write code, solve complex problems, carry out highly creative tasks, and even provide deep research in a fraction of the time it would take a human. You can see the full list of models here.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

It spans symbolic logic, probability models, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and hybrid approaches, applied in domains such as chatbots, search, recommendation, medical diagnosis, and autonomous driving. AI model An AI model is a trained function that maps inputs to outputs based on patterns it's learned from data and training.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

OpenAI API : This API lets developers connect the GPT-4o API and the Whisper API with other apps. You can also connect with these models using Zapier's ChatGPT integration. Notion API: This open API allows users to connect Notion workspaces with other software. Notion also integrates with Zapier for a no-code solution.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Why it will revolutionize the way we shop, browse, and learn Source: openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins The electrifying launch and global adoption of ChatGPT has been amazing to witness. And similar to AOL or Apple, OpenAI is just getting started — the company continues to push new platform updates at a fast clip.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

The AI “stack” has emerged with Large Language Models and other important models (like audio, imagery, video, etc) operating in the cloud with well-documented and supported APIs that are available to developers to build on. OpenAI generated over $1.5bn in revenue in 2023. This is a big deal. Should I get some of that?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

The AI chatbot wars are heating up, and two of the biggest contenders are OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's Meta AI. Both are powerful and capable AI-powered chatbots based on state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), but they do have plenty of differences. Meta AI ChatGPT Models Llama 4 GPT-4.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Google Veo is a family of AI video generation models that can create videos from text prompts or from static images. The latest model, Veo 3, includes native audio generation alongside video (the previous model, Veo 2, produced silent clips). OpenAI's text-to-video model

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

Under the hood, it uses OpenAI's AI models —the same ones that power ChatGPT. Gemini in Google Sheets Add AI automation to your spreadsheets What is Microsoft Copilot in Excel? Microsoft Copilot is Excel's AI assistant, and it's built right into Excel as a sidebar. What can Copilot do in Excel?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

In this blog post, I'll walk you through exactly how to create your own chatbot using Interfaces—and offer a few ideas on specific use cases. For the purpose of this tutorial, we'll be using Interfaces Premium, which allows you to pull in OpenAI's GPT-4. In the model dropdown field, you can click on GPT-3.5

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2024

Chai is one of the first large-scale AI language model compet itions —meaning that it allows competitors to submit language models and compete for user engagement on Chai’s entertainment app. In its blog last week , the Chai team shares insight about their model and the driving force behind Chat AI—it is data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

This news creates the largest global cross-merchant network effect for e-commerce … Brands will now have control of the checkout experience and payment options they offer shoppers on third-party digital channels (such as social media, blogs, digital interfaces and QR codes).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. And OpenAI is heavily investing in it. ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. Timeline of the most recent ChatGPT updates August 22, 2023 OpenAI brings fine-tuning to GPT-3.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. “We look forward to the open ecosystem that will emerge around this and further models to truly explore the boundaries of latent space.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2023

But almost overnight, ChatGPT’s generative AI, built by OpenAI, has shown signs that AI can actually deliver on its futuristic potential. The speed of OpenAI’s development and adoption has been amazing to see. Now, just a few months later, OpenAI has upgraded from GPT-3 to GPT-4, a far more powerful AI model ( see demo ).

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

The best AI chatbots The leader: ChatGPT The runner-up: Google Bard Internet-connected: Microsoft Bing AI , Perplexity , YouChat , KoalaChat For content writing: Jasper Chat , Chat by Copy.ai , ChatSonic , ZenoChat For messaging: Personal AI For tinkering: OpenAI playground , Poe For fun: AI Test Kitchen , Character.AI Chat experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft today announced that it’s extending its partnership with OpenAI, the startup behind art- and text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and GPT-3, with a “multi-year, multi-billion-dollar” investment. ” OpenAI will remain a capped-profit company as a part of the deal.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Sign up here: startupschool.org/generative-ai-cofounder-meetup PS: This blog post was written by ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet like-minded individuals, learn from each other, and potentially form a winning team.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The hype around ChatGPT , OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, hasn’t reached a peak yet. Customers can train Yuma’s AI models on historical tickets, having it mimic the writing style of a brand and optionally automatically translate between languages for service agents. Only time will tell.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 19, 2023

I learned that there are principal agent issues with your realtor exacerbated by the transactional incentive model. I think of this every time “ OpenAI ” is mentioned. And these days OpenAI is mentioned a lot! In their 2015 introductory blog post , the group said We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 11, 2023

Riffing Off VC Charles Hudson’s Blog Post, Here’s What I’m Trying to Answer a group of different robots running a race, digital art [DALL-E] If startup founders sometimes ‘Build in Public,’ is the analogou sventure capitalist motto to ‘Think in Public?’

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

The same day Microsoft invested billions in OpenAI, McKinsey snatched up an enterprise-focused AI firm, Iguazio, for a relative steal. Iguazio’s product suite collects data and preps it offline or offline, accelerating and automating AI model training for deployment via APIs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media. Still, people were mad.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

“With the advent of [OpenAI’s] GPT-3, we saw an opportunity to launch an AI content platform that could help businesses and professional creators brainstorm and do their work more quickly and efficiently.” Jasper leverages AI to generate content for blog articles, social media posts, website copy and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

And the recently debuted YouWrite, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3 , can be prompted to write essays, blog posts and even boilerplate letters. It remains to be seen whether You’s business model will be a winner. Image Credits: You.com.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

OpenAI's Zapier integration , for example, lets users generate DALLE images—then share them with their teams. With it, you can generate images from text using a pre-trained model, fine-tune models to generate images with your own data, and edit existing images using AI. Or write an email with GPT-3 —then send it via Gmail.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Brand journalism vs. content marketing How to use OpenAI's GPT to spark content ideas Learn how Whether brand journalism qualifies as a subset of content marketing is unimportant. American Express has a branded blog, Business Class , that publishes content to help small and medium business owners. Let's look at an example.

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Continuations

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

demonstrating how cheap it is to remove safety training from an open source model with published weights. First, this has the risk of leading us down the path toward highly concentrated market power and we have seen the problems of this in tech again and again (it has been a long standing topic on my blog ). Jeffrey Ladish et.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

In late December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and its close collaborator and investor, Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. Today, OpenAI gave a public response, claiming — unsurprisingly — that The Times’ lawsuit is meritless.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Meta’s since-disbanded BlenderBot 3.0

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Anthropic , a startup that hopes to raise $5 billion over the next four years to train powerful text-generating AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT , today peeled back the curtain on its approach to creating those systems. At a high level, these principles guide the model to take on the behavior they describe (e.g. Perhaps not.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

How to use OpenAI's GPT to spark content ideas Learn how As a human and a writer, I've been covering this kind of generative AI technology for almost a decade. There's a big reason for this: 95% of these AI writing tools use the same large language models (LLMs) as the back end. That's what us humans are for. (In

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Do more with OpenAI Discover more ways to add AI to your workflows. But if you use OpenAI's GPT playground , which doesn't have the same guardrails, it will tell you—or insist, even—that King Renoit was a French king who reigned from 1515 to 1544.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

First for its model of building in public. The startup is also worth watching because it is part of a growing cohort of companies building atop GPT-3, what its progenitor the OpenAI project describes as an “autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters.” The startup is notable for a few reasons.

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