Tag: OpenAI

You can learn ChatGPT for free in a single afternoon, and the most useful training comes straight from the company that built it. OpenAI Academy offers free, self-paced courses for non-technical beginners, and the ChatGPT free tier gives you a capable model at no cost, currently GPT-5.5 Instant by default. You do not need to […]

Andrej Karpathy is one of the most influential figures in modern artificial intelligence, a founding member of OpenAI, the former director of AI and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, and the founder of the AI-education startup Eureka Labs. In May 2026 he made headlines by joining rival lab Anthropic, the maker of Claude, to work on […]

In December 2025, Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, added generative AI to its search results with two features, AI Overviews and AI Chat. The move split its audience instantly. Some users welcomed a greener way to use AI, while many long-time fans pushed back hard, calling it the one thing a climate-focused search […]

Update — June 8, 2026: Refreshed pricing, rollout status, and benchmarks for June. Grok 4.3 has now reached standard SuperGrok and X Premium+ seats, not just the $300 Heavy tier. For the deep dive, read our Grok 4.3 review. ChatGPT now runs on GPT-5.5, launched on April 23, 2026, while Grok is powered by Grok […]

Five AI shopping assistants now decide how millions of people find and buy products online: ChatGPT, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus), Perplexity, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Over the 2025 holiday season, traffic from AI platforms to retail sites grew nearly 700%, and those shoppers converted at 31% higher rates than visitors from regular […]

OpenAI’s top customer burns 100 billion tokens a month, and Sam Altman just admitted AI costs became a huge issue in 2026. Here’s what changed and how to cut your own AI bill.

Dario Amodei is (1) the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude. (2) a former Vice President of Research at OpenAI who led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3. (3) a Princeton-trained biophysicist with a PhD in neural-circuit electrophysiology. (4) a $7 billion billionaire as of February 2026 per Forbes. (5) the […]

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. For a chatbot built specifically around lighter, […]

For the first time since ChatGPT launched, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in US business adoption. Ramp’s April 2026 AI Index, published on May 13, puts Anthropic at 34.4% of tracked enterprise spending versus OpenAI at 32.3%. Anthropic added 3.8 percentage points in a single month while OpenAI fell 2.9. A year ago, OpenAI sat near […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more […]