According to 1M AI News monitoring, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced at a company-wide meeting that the company’s next-generation main model, codenamed Spud, has completed pre-training. He expects that “in a few weeks” there will be a “very powerful model,” and Altman said the team believes it “can really accelerate the economy.”
Altman also announced that the AI safety team has been transferred to Chief Research Officer Mark Chen’s research department, while the information security team has been placed under the “scaling” division led by co-founder and President Greg Brockman. He will focus on fundraising, supply chain, and “building data centers at an unprecedented scale.” The product division led by executive Fidji Simo has been renamed “AGI Deployment.” Last week, OpenAI informed employees that ChatGPT, the coding agent Codex, and the browser Atlas will be merged into a desktop “super app.”