OpenAI rolls out Canvas to all ChatGPT users – and it’s a powerful productivity tool

With the vacation season upon us, many corporations are discovering methods to take benefit by offers, promotions, or different campaigns. OpenAI has discovered a option to take part with its “12 days of OpenAI” occasion sequence.

On Wednesday, OpenAI introduced by way of an X submit that beginning on Dec. 5, the corporate would host 12 days of dwell streams and launch “a bunch of latest issues, massive and small,” in accordance with the submit. 

This is all the pieces you should know in regards to the marketing campaign, in addition to a round-up of daily’s drops. 

What are the ’12 days of OpenAI’?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared a bit extra particulars in regards to the occasion, which kicked off at 10 a.m. PT on Dec. 5 and can happen each day for 12 weekdays with a dwell stream that includes a launch or demo. The launches can be each “massive ones” or “stocking stuffers,” in accordance with Altman. 

What has been dropped to this point?

Tuesday, December 10 

• Canvas is coming to all net customers, no matter plan, in GPT-4o, that means it’s now not simply obtainable in beta for ChatGPT Plus customers.
• Canvas has been constructed into GPT-4o natively, that means you’ll be able to simply name on Canvas as an alternative of getting to go to the toggle on the mannequin selector. 
• The Canvas interface is identical as what customers noticed in beta in ChatGPT Plus, with a desk on the left hand aspect that exhibits the Q+A change and a right-hand tab that exhibits your venture, displaying all the edits as they go, in addition to shortcuts. 
• Canvas will also be used with customized GPTs. It’s turned on by default when creating a brand new one, and there’s an choice so as to add Canvas to current GPTs. 
• Canvas additionally has the flexibility to run Python code instantly in Canvas, permitting ChatGPT to execute coding duties corresponding to fixing bugs. 

Learn extra about it right here: I am a ChatGPT energy person – and Canvas remains to be my favourite productiveness characteristic a month later

Monday, December 9

OpenAI teased the third-day announcement as “one thing you’ve got been ready for,” adopted by the much-anticipated drop of its video mannequin — Sora.  This is what you should know:

• Often called Sora Turbo, the video mannequin is smarter than the February mannequin that was previewed. 
• Entry is coming within the US later right now; customers want solely ChatGPT Plus and Professional.
• Sora can generate video-to-video, text-to-video, and extra. 
• ChatGPT Plus customers can generate as much as 50 movies per 30 days at 480p decision or fewer movies at 720p. The Professional Plan presents 10x extra utilization. 
• The brand new mannequin is smarter and cheaper than the previewed February mannequin. 

• Sora options an discover web page the place customers can view one another’s creations. Customers can click on on any video to see the way it was created. 
• A dwell demo confirmed the mannequin in use. The demo-ers entered a immediate and picked facet ratio, period, and even presets. I discovered the dwell demo video outcomes to be practical and gorgeous. 
• OpenAI additionally unveiled Storyboard, a software that lets customers generate inputs for each body in a sequence. 

Friday, December 6:

On the second day of “shipmas,” OpenAI expanded entry to its Reinforcement Effective-Tuning Analysis Program:

• The Reinforcement Effective-Tuning program permits builders and machine studying engineers to fine-tune OpenAI fashions to “excel at particular units of complicated, domain-specific duties,” in accordance with OpenAI. 
• Reinforcement Effective-Tuning refers to a customization approach wherein builders can outline a mannequin’s conduct by inputting duties and grading the output. The mannequin then makes use of this suggestions as a information to enhance, turning into higher at reasoning by comparable issues, and enhancing general accuracy.
• OpenAI encourages analysis institutes, universities, and enterprises to use to this system, significantly people who carry out slender units of complicated duties, may gain advantage from the help of AI, and carry out duties which have an objectively right reply. 
• Spots are restricted; candidates can apply by filling out this way. 
• OpenAI goals to make Reinforcement Effective-Tuning publicly obtainable in early 2025.

Thursday, December 5: 

OpenAI began with a bang, unveiling two main upgrades to its chatbot: a brand new tier of ChatGPT subscription, ChatGPT Professional, and the complete model of the corporate’s o1 mannequin. 

The complete model of o1: 

• Will likely be higher for every kind of prompts, past math and science
• Will make main errors about 34% much less typically than o1-preview, whereas fascinated about 50% sooner
• Rolls out right now, changing o1-preview to all ChatGPT Plus and now Professional customers 
• Lets customers enter photographs, as seen within the demo, to supply multi-modal reasoning (reasoning on each textual content and pictures) 

ChatGPT Professional:

• Is supposed for ChatGPT Plus superusers, granting them limitless entry to the most effective OpenAI has to supply, together with limitless entry to OpenAI o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Superior Mode
• Options o1 professional mode, which makes use of extra computing to motive by the toughest science and math issues 
• Prices $200 per 30 days 

The place are you able to entry the dwell stream?

The dwell streams are held on the OpenAI web site, and posted to its YouTube channel instantly after. To make entry simpler, OpenAI may even submit a hyperlink to the dwell stream on its X account 10 minutes earlier than it begins, which can be at roughly 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET each day. 

What are you able to anticipate?

The releases stay a shock, however many anticipate that Sora, OpenAI’s video mannequin initially introduced final February, can be launched as a part of one of many larger drops. Since that first announcement, the mannequin has been obtainable to a choose group of crimson teamers and testers and was leaked final week by some testers over grievances about “unpaid labor,” in accordance with stories.  

Different rumored releases embrace a brand new, fuller model of the corporate’s o1 LLM with extra superior reasoning capabilities, and a Santa voice for OpenAI’s Superior Voice Mode, per code noticed by customers solely a few weeks in the past beneath the codename “Straw.”