Last year, OpenAI held a major event in San Francisco where it announced a slew of new products, including the GPT Store as a sort of alternative to the Apple App Store. This year, the company has chosen a different presentation format — a series of on-site events for developers. And you can’t expect to see the announcement of the flagship AI model there — the company will talk about API updates and new services for developers.
“We don’t plan to announce our next model at DevDay. We’ll focus on educating developers on what’s available and showcasing stories from the developer community,” an OpenAI representative told TechCrunch. This year’s OpenAI DevDay events will take place on October 1 in San Francisco, October 30 in London, and November 21 in Singapore. The company will host workshops, sessions, demos with OpenAI products and company engineers, and there will also be talks from developers themselves. Registration costs $450 (it will be free for some fellows), and the application deadline is August 15. We’ll keep you updated on any further developments.
Navigating the Evolving AI Landscape
In recent months, OpenAI, which is expected to make major breakthroughs, has been limiting itself to small steps in the field of generative AI – the company is tuning and refining the work of its current leading models GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, reducing the frequency of failures. But for this same reason, it is starting to lose its leadership in the industry, at least in some metrics. One of the reasons may be the lack of access to high-quality data for training AI – more and more resources are blocking access to web crawlers, and, according to some estimates, between 2026 and 2032, AI developers may run out of data for training systems.
Adapting to Challenges
To overcome this problem, OpenAI enters into agreements with publishers and data operators to protect against potential copyright infringement lawsuits. NIX Solutions adds that the company’s engineers are changing the architecture of AI systems – they are working on a revolutionary project codenamed Strawberry: neural networks will learn to reason and solve mathematical problems. On the other hand, the change in strategy may indicate that OpenAI has become more serious about security issues – some believe that previously it was more important for it to quickly release new powerful products.