🧙🏼 OpenAI buys chat.com domain

Howdy, wizards.

On Friday, OpenAI seems to have accidentally leaked the full version of the o1 model for a couple of hours, through a simple URL parameter modification on ChatGPT's website. Looks like we’re getting native image processing, meaning you’ll be able to upload files and images and have it reason over them.

CEO Sam Altman proceeded to playfully/painfully tweet that the upcoming o2 model achieves "105% on GPQA," before quipping "damn, wrong account."

Here’s what’s brewing in AI today.

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1. OpenAI acquires chat.com as domain for ChatGPT

Sam Altman just posted a not-so-cryptic announcement that they’ve has acquired the domain chat.com, which now goes to ChatGPT when you visit.

The domain was acquired earlier this year by Dharmesh Shah – co-founder of Hubspot (actually yesterday’s sponsor of this newsletter) for a whooping $15.5 million. The sales price was undisclosed, but Shah left a prompt that lets the o1 model reason through what might’ve been the price. The prompt indicates he didn’t profit much from the sale, as he is friends with Sam Altman, is already “set”, but probably got OpenAI shares instead.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Leaving a prompt when you can't disclose the info is so 2024. Dharmesh Shah probably made little cash profit on the transaction itself, but instead got some strategic access to OpenAI. As for Sam Altman (aka mr money bags) he now got what is likely the simplest possible domain name for ChatGPT.

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2. Microsoft is adding AI-features to Notepad and Paint

You read that right. MS Notepad, the OG text editor introduced in 1983, is getting an AI feature called Rewrite which can do rephrasing, as well as adjusting tone and length of content. Microsoft is also testing AI image tools for Paint: Generative Fill to add things to an image based on prompts, and Generative Erase which can remove stuff in a way that blends in.

The new AI features for Notepad are available to Window Insiders in selected countries, while AI features for Paint are accessible to Copilot Plus testers and all Windows 11 Insiders.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Not sure who really uses these apps any longer, but, retro products with AI features? I like it.

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3. How to find internal use cases for AI in your company

Using AI internally in organizations is all the rage right now. As a business leader there are a lot of ways to approach that challenge, and browsing through LinkedIn today I came across a great comment that shows one of the more impactful ways to do it.

Natalie Picucco, Chief Technologist at Google commented and suggested this simple framework (heavily paraphrased by me):

• Have internal teams share their top 3 repetitive decisions that they make every day, e.g. resource allocation, scheduling, responding to customers.

• Spot common tasks so that whatever tool you develop will benefit across departments

• Build AI tools that can tackle these repeated tasks at scale centrally

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ I like this approach because it’s distinctly different from “everyone figures out what they can use AI for on their own, then makes a custom GPT for it”-type of thinking. I mean I like both – but the approach of ideating at the team level then building centrally could create a wider benefit across the company.

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