OpenAI plans 12 AI announcements in December

OpenAI has announced twelve days of daily AI launches starting on December 5th. According to media reports, the ChatGPT developers are planning to release the long-awaited text-to-video AI tool Sora and a new reasoning model, among other things.

The announcement for the multi-day event, dubbed "Shipmas" and featuring live streams, was made via OpenAI's X account. It literally says: "12 days, 12 livestreams. A bunch of new things, big and small. 12 days of OpenAI starting tomorrow." The public announcement was flanked by hints from OpenAI employees, who also referred to the new ideas on social media. Apparently, the announcements are to be made in the style of an advent calendar.

The long road to Sora

The online tech news portal The Verge cites unnamed sources at OpenAI as saying that the Sora video tool is part of these announcements. The first short videos that were created with it were shown after its launch in February 2024. A week ago, artists gave everyone access to the video AI for several hours to protest against OpenAI's company policy. Originally, only selected artists were to be given access to test the AI.

A release of Sora would be in line with earlier announcements that Sora would be available by the end of the year. Google had previously released its video AI model Veo.

300 million weekly users

Among the smaller announcements could be the unlocking of a Santa Claus voice in ChatGPT's voice output, according to reports.

Meanwhile, OpenAI CEO Sam Altmann explained at a conference in New York that ChatGPT currently has over 300 million users who use the AI chatbot at least once a week. That would be a significant increase: ChatGPT had only announced in August that it had 200 million weekly users. According to Altman, ChatGPT now processes one billion messages per day.

(mki)