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Altman says OpenAI will give independent evaluators employee-like access
Sam Altman said OpenAI will adopt the first step of Dario Amodei's plan to slow frontier AI development: independent evaluators working inside the company with employee-like access.
Hugging Bay builds a BitTorrent backup for open AI models as Nvidia buys Hugging Face
A volunteer-built BitTorrent index for open AI models went online in July, weeks before Nvidia's $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal. Its design is credible. Its network is still too small to matter.
OpenAI paused the $200 ChatGPT tier because demand exceeded its compute
OpenAI paused new $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups after unprecedented Astra demand strained its infrastructure, keeping other plans available while it adds capacity.
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