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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Jasper's AI engine then decides the best combination of models to use for each prompt, which, in theory, should deliver high-quality outputs. Jasper's AI engine then decides the best combination of models to use for each prompt, which, in theory, should deliver high-quality outputs.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

It means connecting AI tools—like ChatGPT , Claude , or custom models —to the apps and systems your team already uses, so they can help you automate repetitive tasks, surface better insights, and move faster. Zapier makes it possible to connect state-of-the-art AI models to the apps your team already uses.

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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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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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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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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 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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Alongside GPT-4 , OpenAI has open sourced a software framework to evaluate the performance of its AI models. Called Evals , OpenAI says that the tooling will allow anyone to report shortcomings in its models to help guide improvements. It’s all unpaid work, very unfortunately.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Generative AI Generative AI is a particularly exciting frontier of artificial intelligence, where models don't just analyze existing information but actually create entirely new, original content. Optimize: Since AI models learn from data, their performance can degrade as the real world changes—a concept known as "model drift."

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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

JUNE 5, 2025

Model intelligence exploded, with reasoning models joining the scene. Agentic coding tools , such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex , are mainly served via API or in a command-line interface. But the next day, he woke up to a $700 OpenAI token bill. There were two major changes since then.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Plus, both platforms offer model context protocol (MCP) servers , which means you can interact with other tools using natural language. I wouldn't recommend choosing between them based on AI features alone for a couple reasons. First, they're likely to look very different in a few months—everything's changing so rapidly.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

In a blog post today, Google puts its focus on its AI and data services partners like Confluent, DataRobot, MongoDB, Redis, DataStax, Elastic and Neo4j. Most ISVs, I would say, lean towards the SaaS model now. ” He noted that while Google has its own foundational models, it still partners with the likes of Anthropic and Cohere.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Automate art inspiration with DALL·E 2 and Zapier Learn how But Leap AI lets you play around with their own AI models (and build your own!) art, avatars, logos) using pre-trained, open-source models like Openjourney and Stable Diffusion. The main difference between those apps and Leap AI are the models. It turns out quite a bit.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

I'm using it as a writing assistant for a new blog I'm experimenting with, and it saves me hours every week. How to use OpenAI's GPT to spark content ideas Learn how Time savings isn't the only reason I fancy the tool. I've used it to generate emails, ads, blog posts, and product descriptions.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Qwen , Alibaba Cloud's family of open AI models , has been popping up at the top of benchmarks a lot as it's grown—in power and popularity—over the past year. I've been curious about it for a while: open models are a lot more transparent about how they work than the proprietary models you get from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 20, 2025

Before you build your Zap, you'll need an OpenAI account if you don't already have one. Click on Account , and set up a new account by providing the API key you generated in OpenAI. Next, select gpt-4o in the Model dropdown, which is a good model for customer-service type tasks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4 , its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. Has OpenAI solved this problem? “We can repeat [these steps] until we’re satisfied with the policy quality.” ” But color me skeptical.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Large language models (LLMs) are incredibly good at stating things confidently, even if they aren't always correct. OpenAI's reasoning models are an attempt to fix that, by getting the AI to spend more time working through complex problems, rather than just running with the first idea it has. So let's dig in.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

" To power this 95-step Zap workflow, Drive Social Media relies on a sophisticated stack of integrations, such as Zapier Tables , AI by Zapier , Code by Zapier , OpenAI's ChatGPT , Google Sheets , Webhooks , Paths by Zapier , and Apify. The whole thing lives inside Zapier."

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

OpenAI shipped GPT-4 yesterday, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work. Like GPT-3, the model “hallucinates” facts and makes basic reasoning errors. In one example on OpenAI’s own blog , GPT-4 describes Elvis Presley as the “son of an actor.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI claims it created a custom training set that expands the size of the standard Pile by 3x. make up) facts.

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