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Brooklyn-based startup Reflection AI on Monday unveiled Beam, its first frontier open-weight AI model, claiming it matches leading Chinese open models on reasoning benchmarks while using far less computing power.
OpenAI is adding visual display ads that will appear alongside images users ask ChatGPT to create. The ads start later this month in the US only, with an initial test group of advertisers.
OpenAI said on Monday it will start adding an invisible watermark to text written by ChatGPT and Codex for users in the European Union, to comply with the transparency rules of the EU AI Act.
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