OpenAI might sometimes seem like it’s on a nonstop winning streak, but a couple reports out yesterday suggest that’s not quite true.
The first came from The Information, which reported OpenAI’s abandonment of a new AI model called Arrakis, named after the desert planet in Dune. Arrakis would apparently have allowed OpenAI to run its ChatGPT chatbot more cheaply than it can using its GPT line of large language models. The keyword here is “efficiency,” and Arrakis reportedly failed to meet expectations, leading to the project being scrapped by the middle of this year.
