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Discover the world of artificial intelligence and OpenAI as a high-profile research lab and startup, which recently sold more shares than previously thought as per SEC filings. With backers like Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and more, this offering valued the company between $27-$29b. OpenAI has revolutionised AI and ML with groundbreaking achievements and with its ever-growing partner list, is assuredly redefining our world.

ChatGPT is an innovative AI chatbot from OpenAI, providing users with accurate and dependable conversational AI for free. Founded in 2017, OpenAI is a research laboratory that has been behind well-known projects such as DALL-E and Codex. Notable personnel include CEO Sam Altman, Y Combinator President and the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Khosla Ventures' Founders Fund. Though it is proprietary software, please note that ChatGPT may scrape online data to respond to queries; this has privacy implications that may need to be addressed with terms of use, privacy policies, and disclaimers.

Replit, a San Francisco-based IDE provider, just secured $100 million in funding to further develop their AI-driven code-generating tool Ghostwriter, helping the company reach a post-money valuation of up to $1.16 billion. This new round was backed by renowned investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Bloomberg Beta, Naval Ravikant, ARK Ventures, and Hamilton Helmer. With the new funds, Replit is looking to focus on expanding its core product experience, cloud services, and AI innovation. Founded in 2016, Replit is an online collaborative IDE supporting programming languages like Java, Python, Go, and C++. Their signature feature of Ghostwriter is a suite of AI models suggesting and explaining code powered by open source. Since launch, Replit has grown to 20 million users and is now looking to move forward with more professional development offerings.

Discover how the University of Hong Kong is using the AI tool ChatGPT in a trial period. Hear what Professor Ian Holliday has to say on it, as well as the response from the Hong Kong Government. Get to know the risks involved to better understand the policy and guidelines being established by the university’s Generative AI Task Force.

OpenAI, a research lab striving for the development of AI, recently hired a 50 experts team for studying the risks associated with their latest AI tool GPT-4. Andrew White, a professor from University of Rochester, highlights there are major risks of using it for 'dangerous chemistry' with its access to chemical info from scientific papers. Elon Musk and AI experts signed an open letter, demanding a 6-month pause, to handle the risks and make sure the use is positive.