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March 15, 2023

'Basically mindblowing' — What GPT-4 can do, according to one startup that's had access to it

Icelandic startup Miðeind ehf was part of one of six beta-testing projects for OpenAI’s new model


Tim Smith

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OpenAI’s move into open source is set to heighten competition for European AI champion Mistral

OpenAI’s newest text generation model, GPT-4, was released yesterday with predictable fanfare on social media. But developers can’t yet build any products or services on it (sorry Tweet generators!) because the API is still waitlisted. 

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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