These images provide clues as to how ChatGPT will look if its creators make a physical version of their hugely popular artificial intelligence. The maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI, has invested in 1X, a company that makes humanoid robots designed to do human jobs after the success of the online chatbot. The robot, named EVE, has manipulators which can pick up objects and pack and unpack boxes - and is designed to work alongside human beings. OpenAI's Startup Fund led an investment round that raised $23.5 million for the 1X robot, which is set to hit the market this summer. The investment fuels OpenAI's rivalry with Elon Musk's Tesla bot, which has yet to begin production.

A collateral beneficiary of the feverish pace of generative artificial intelligence development appears to be the humanoid robot. A Norwegian company called 1X Technologies, formerly Halodi Robotics, which describes itself as a manufacturer and inventor of androids, recently attracted $23.5 million in a round of funding led by the OpenAI Startup Fund -- the same OpenAI that got the AI snowball rolling with its ChatGPT generative AI bot. "1X is at the forefront of augmenting labor through the use of safe, advanced technologies in robotics," Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's COO and manager of the OpenAI Startup Fund, said in a statement. "The OpenAI Startup Fund believes in the approach and impact that 1X can have on the future of work." With the funds, 1X said it intends to accelerate the development of its bipedal android model NEO and expand manufacturing of its first commercially available wheel-based android, EVE, in Norway and North America.

The OpenAI Startup Fund is investing $100 million to help AI companies have a profound, positive impact on the world. We're looking to partner with a small number of early-stage startups in fields where artificial intelligence can have a transformative effect--like health care, climate change, and education--and where AI tools can empower people by helping them be more productive. The fund is managed by a dedicated team with expertise in investing, ML, engineering, talent and operations, including members of OpenAI leadership and technical staff. The fund's investors consist of Microsoft and other OpenAI partners. In addition to capital, companies in the OpenAI Startup Fund will get early access to future OpenAI systems, support from the fund's team and credits on Azure.

Harvey, a startup building what it describes as a "copilot for lawyers," today emerged from stealth with $5 million in funding led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, the tranche through which OpenAI and its partners are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Also participating in the round was Jeff Dean, the lead of Google AI, Google's AI research division. Harvey was founded by Winston Weinberg, a former securities and antitrust litigator at law firm O'Melveny & Myers, and Gabriel Pereyra, previously a research scientist at DeepMind, Google Brain (another of Google's AI groups) and Meta AI. Weinberg and Pereyra are roomates -- Pereyra showed Weinberg OpenAI's GPT-3 text-generating system and Weinberg realized that it could be used to improve legal workflows. "Our product provides lawyers with a natural language interface for their existing legal workflows," Pereyra told TechCrunch in an email interview. "Instead of manually editing legal documents or performing legal research, Harvey enables lawyers to describe the task they wish to accomplish in simple instructions and receive the generated result.

Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. A podcaster steps up to a mic to do a review of a new chicken nugget brand. As he begins talking and recording himself on his laptop, real-time speech-to-text transcribes his comments: "So these nuggets are, um, made from chicken, but they're made to um, um, um, um, emulate the taste of, like, like, non chicken nuggets." That doesn't sound very professional; on his screen, he strikes through those filler words -- and while he's at it, boosts the podcast's sound quality before publishing it for his audience. This is one use case for audio-video editing tool Descript, which today announced a significant product update and a $50 million series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund. "The whole concept of Descript -- editing video like a doc -- is only possible because of AI [artificial intelligence]," said Jay LeBoeuf, Descript's head of business and corporate development.

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Mum's been the word since on which companies have received infusions from the Fund. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5 million investment in Mem, a work-focused app that taps AI to automatically organize notes. The investment values Mem at $110 million post-money and brings the startup's total raised to $29 million. The workflow revolves around search and a chronological timeline, allowing users to attach topic tags, tag other users and add recurring reminders to notes.

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, OpenAI says. The $100 million entrepreneurial tranche was announced last May and was backed by Microsoft and other partners. The 10 or so founders chosen for Converge will receive $1 million each and admission to five weeks of office hours, workshops and events with OpenAI staff, as well as early access to OpenAI models and "programming tailored to AI companies." "We're excited to meet groups across all phases of the seed stage, from pre-idea solo founders to co-founding teams already working on a product," OpenAI writes in a blog post shared with TechCrunch ahead of today's announcement.

One of the biggest highlights of Build, Microsoft's annual software development conference, was the presentation of a tool that uses deep learning to generate source code for office applications. The tool uses GPT-3, a massive language model developed by OpenAI last year and made available to select developers, researchers, and startups in a paid application programming interface. Many have touted GPT-3 as the next-generation artificial intelligence technology that will usher in a new breed of applications and startups. Since GPT-3's release, many developers have found interesting and innovative uses for the language model. And several startups have declared that they will be using GPT-3 to build new or augment existing products. But creating a profitable and sustainable business around GPT-3 remains a challenge.

The OpenAI Startup Fund is investing $100 million to help AI companies have a profound, positive impact on the world. We're looking to partner with a small number of early-stage startups in fields where artificial intelligence can have a transformative effect--like health care, climate change, and education--and where AI tools can empower people by helping them be more productive. The fund is managed by OpenAI, with investment from Microsoft and other OpenAI partners. In addition to capital, companies in the OpenAI Startup Fund will get early access to future OpenAI systems, support from our team, and credits on Azure. If your startup plans to push the boundaries of today's artificial intelligence by building with our API, we want to hear from you.

OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Startup Fund, a $100 million fund to -- in the words of OpenAI -- "help AI companies have a profound, positive impact on the world." The fund is managed by OpenAI, with investment from Microsoft and other partners, and OpenAI says that companies selected for it will get early access to future OpenAI systems, support from OpenAI's team, and credits on Microsoft Azure. According to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator, the OpenAI Startup Fund will make "big, early bets" on a relatively small number of companies, likely no more than 10. It'll look to partner with early-stage startups in fields where AI can have a "transformative" effect -- like health care, climate change, and education -- and where AI tools can empower people by helping them be more productive, like personal assistance and semantic search. "We think that helping people be more productive with new tools is a big deal. And we can imagine brand new interferences that weren't possible a year ago," Altman said.