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OpenAI in 2023: 2 million developers, 100 million weekly ChatGPT users

OpenAI in 2025: 4 million developers, 800 million+ weekly ChatGPT users

No word yet on exactly what will be announced, but we may hear updates about the buzzy AI device OpenAI is building with Ive and his team, as well as new information on how OpenAI will change Sora, its new social media app for AI-generated video.

Today I'm on the ground at OpenAI's annual event, DevDay.

The vibes are as follows:

-Keynote by Sam Altman
-Media Q&A with execs like Greg Brockman & Brad Lightcap
-Developer state of the union
-Fireside chat between Altman and famed former Apple designer Jony Ive

morning sf!

An anime version of Jesus Christ flipping tables. OpenAI employees performing in Hamilton costumes. News anchors discussing a story on television. A man doing a thirst-trap TikTok dance. Sam Altman — stealing GPUs on CCTV, listening to a business pitch, crying.

Welcome to Sora.

I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop AI Altmans as far as the eye can see.

A vision of an all-slop future

✨ heading to SF today and i'll be there through Friday! ✨

engineers, researchers, anyone in AI -- i'd love to grab coffee or drinks. DM me or message me on Signal @ haydenfield.11

Are AI agents finally good enough? Anthropic’s David Hershey joins Decoder to discuss Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the path forward for agentic AI.

I guest-hosted another episode of The Verge's Decoder podcast!

We chatted about the good, the bad & the future of AI agents, with Anthropic’s David Hershey (its applied AI lead) as our guest to discuss Claude Sonnet 4.5 & the current agentic landscape. www.theverge.com/podcast/7897...

OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real We’ll see how this goes…

Earlier this week, I watched OpenAI CEO Sam Altman drink from a gigantic mango juice box & remark aloud about how it was half his size. The catch: None of it was real.

But the most concerning part is that I couldn’t tell the deepfake from reality.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I mentioned this on a podcast we taped yesterday! And got a lot more details about what was built. Should be out tomorrow.

Yeah, this was definitely a rudimentary example proj from my understanding -- more testing the limits of how long it could run for in terms of hours.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic.

Anthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams.

It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when it had completed the task.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

How AI safety took a backseat to military money Heidy Khlaff discusses the industry shift toward military applications and what it means for AI safety.

It was great speaking to @haydenfield.bsky.social on the Decoder podcast, where we discussed the relationship between safety and the push for generative AI to be deployed within military applications.
www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...

How AI safety took a backseat to military money Heidy Khlaaf discusses the industry shift toward military applications and what it means for AI safety.

My 2nd time guest-hosting The Verge's Decoder podcast:

We dove into more AI boom ripple effects, like how AI labs are working overtime with weapons makers & the military. The AI Now Institute's @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social, who used to work with OpenAI, breaks it down. www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...

The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags Surprise!

Surprise, surprise: Elon Musk's xAI is partnering with the Trump admin. Federal agencies will be able to use its models.

The news comes after xAI has been widely criticized for its lack of safety processes & surveillance risks. My piece on this from two weeks ago: www.theverge.com/x-ai/775411/...

OpenAI, Oracle & SoftBank just announced 5 new AI data centers as part of Stargate, saying it will “put Stargate ahead of schedule to secure full $500 billion, 10-gigawatt commitment by end of 2025.”

The news comes one day after OpenAI announced its big partnership with Nvidia.

Fantastic discussion between @haydenfield.bsky.social and @kashhill.bsky.social! The societal impact of AI is something we can't overlook. If you haven't already, be sure to listen to this podcast episode on AI psychosis!
#ResponsibleAI #AISafety #MentalHealth

Thank you so much!

We need this!!!!

Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash A deal for ‘at least’ 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters

new: OpenAI is teaming up with Nvidia via a “strategic partnership” that will get the ChatGPT-maker more compute + cash on its road to superintelligence.

Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

We also talked about how chatbots can affect users' mental health in other concerning ways — especially users in vulnerable mindsets, and teens. You can listen at the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

How chatbots are enabling AI psychosis There’s no real ghost in the machine, but people still look.

New podcast ep on AI psychosis:
The explosive growth of AI chatbots is starting to have noticeable, profound & at times disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack. So I guest-hosted Decoder & brought on the NYT's @kashhill.bsky.social to break it down. www.theverge.com/podcast/7799...

The hunger strike to end AI Protesters are spending their days outside Anthropic in San Francisco and Google DeepMind in London.

I was honestly not expecting to admire the guys doing hunger strikes in front of AI companies the way this @haydenfield.bsky.social piece left me doing. A small gesture in the scheme of things? Maybe! But they seem to take AI's implications more seriously than any of the CEOs working on it.

The hunger strike to end AI Protesters are spending their days outside Anthropic in San Francisco and Google DeepMind in London.

Great piece by @haydenfield.bsky.social about the hunger strike to stop artificial general intelligence www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The hunger strike to end AI Protesters are spending their days outside Anthropic in San Francisco and Google DeepMind in London.

On Guido Reichstadter’s 17th day without eating, he said he was feeling alright — moving a little slower, but alright.

Each day for weeks, he has appeared outside Anthropic's SF HQ. Others have joined him in London and India, calling for a stop to AGI development.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Meta created its own super PAC to politically kneecap its AI rivals Mark Zuckerberg, via Meta, can now essentially spend unlimited money in California elections.

First byline with @haydenfield.bsky.social: Meta made a super PAC for AI issues, meaning they can run ads against their political targets in California -- and maybe their AI competitors, too.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Meta created its own super PAC to politically kneecap its AI rivals Mark Zuckerberg, via Meta, can now essentially spend unlimited money in California elections.

First co-byline with @tinanguyen.bsky.social: How Meta quietly filed to create its own super PAC, allowing it (and Mark Zuckerberg) to spend scores of money to run political ads on behalf of their AI interests — and only their interests.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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