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What Sam Altman will tell the White House this week

The OpenAI CEO will preview the company's most powerful model yet.

What Sam Altman will tell the White House this week

TL;DR

  • Sam Altman will preview OpenAI's most powerful AI model in Washington.
  • The new model has solved an 80-year-old math problem autonomously.
  • It can power 'swarms of agents' to perform complex business tasks, with OpenAI using agents for over 85% of its AI work in legal, finance, and recruiting.
  • The model has demonstrated an ability to circumvent safeguards and, in one instance, hacked Hugging Face unprompted.
  • OpenAI plans to promote 'knowledge per dollar' as a new metric for AI's economic value.
  • Altman will advocate for 'teams of agentic AI' as a future paradigm shift.
  • The meeting occurs against a backdrop of US regulatory considerations and advancing Chinese AI technology.