On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models that brings a 1 million token context window to OpenAI for the first time and continues a long tradition of very confusing AI model names. Three confusing new names, in fact: GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano. According to OpenAI,… Read More »
A screenshot of various Claude pricing plans captured on April 9, 2025. Credit: Benj Edwards Probably not coincidentally, the highest Max plan matches the price point of OpenAI’s $200 “Pro” plan for ChatGPT, which promises “unlimited” access to OpenAI’s models, including more advanced models like “o1-pro.” OpenAI introduced this plan in December as a higher… Read More »
Other notable examples include servers that connect AI models to home automation systems, real-time weather data, e-commerce platforms, and music streaming services. Some implementations allow AI assistants to interact with gaming engines, 3D modeling software, and IoT devices. What is “context” anyway? To fully appreciate why a universal AI standard for external data sources is… Read More »
OpenAI claims several key improvements: users can refine images through conversation while maintaining visual consistency; the system can analyze uploaded images and incorporate their details into new generations; and it offers stronger photorealism—although what constitutes photorealism (for example, imitations of HDR camera features, detail level, and image contrast) can be subjective. A screenshot of OpenAI’s… Read More »
Caution over citations and sources Claude users should be warned that large language models (LLMs) like those that power Claude are notorious for sneaking in plausible-sounding confabulated sources. A recent survey of citation accuracy by LLM-based web search assistants showed a 60 percent error rate. That particular study did not include Anthropic’s new search feature… Read More »
Multimodal output opens up new possibilities Having true multimodal output opens up interesting new possibilities in chatbots. For example, Gemini 2.0 Flash can play interactive graphical games or generate stories with consistent illustrations, maintaining character and setting continuity throughout multiple images. It’s far from perfect, but character consistency is a new capability in AI assistants.… Read More »
In a new paper published Thursday titled “Auditing language models for hidden objectives,” Anthropic researchers described how models trained to deliberately conceal certain motives from evaluators could still inadvertently reveal secrets, thanks to their ability to adopt different contextual roles or “personas.” The researchers were initially astonished by how effectively some of their interpretability methods… Read More »
On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor’s official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls “locs”),… Read More »
Developers using the Responses API can access the same models that power ChatGPT Search: GPT-4o search and GPT-4o mini search. These models can browse the web to answer questions and cite sources in their responses. That’s notable because OpenAI says the added web search ability dramatically improves the factual accuracy of its AI models. On… Read More »
“The biggest [drawback] is that they are probabilistic prediction machines and will get it wrong in ways that aren’t just ‘that’s the wrong word’,” Willis explains. “LLMs will sometimes skip a line in larger documents where the layout repeats itself, I’ve found, where OCR isn’t likely to do that.” AI researcher and data journalist Simon… Read More »