Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) backed OpenAI launched plugins in ChatGPT. OpenAI is starting with a small set of users and is planning to expand access gradually. OpenAI hosts two plugins, a web browser, and a code interpreter. It also open-sourced the code for a knowledge base retrieval plugin to be self-hosted by any developer. Also Read: From Ideation to Implementation: How Microsoft Achieved its ChatGPT Goals OpenAI created a web browser plugin, making it useful for retrieving information. Br Read More...
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TikTok’s hearing in Congress is a reminder of Chinese startups’ identity crisis
TikTok, which now boasts more than 150 million monthly active users in the U.S., is set to testify before Congress on Thursday morning. Over in China, home to TikTok’s parent ByteDance, many startup founders and investors are preparing to stay up and watch the app’s CEO Shou Zi Chew take thorny questions over China’s potential influence on the short-video giant. To an extent, what happens to TikTok foreshadows the future of any Chinese tech company that will make it big in the U.S. As tensions between the two superpowers rise, Chinese startups expanding in the West find themselves increasingly caught in between.
