OpenAI is reportedly set to start testing a feature called ChatGPT Connectors that will let business customers connect Slack and Google Drive to ChatGPT.
This feature will enable the chatbot to access files, presentations, spreadsheets and Slack conversations in those accounts to answer questions, TechCrunch reported Monday (March 17), citing a document it viewed.
OpenAI did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’ request for comment.
ChatGPT Connectors will launch in beta for select ChatGPT Team subscribers, according to the TechCrunch report.
The company plans to expand the feature to Microsoft SharePoint and Box in the future, the report said.
It was reported in February that OpenAI’s enterprise business had 2 million paying users, around double the number it had in September.
“We get a lot of benefits and a tailwind from the organic consumer adoption where people already have familiarity with the product,” OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap told CNBC at the time. “There’s really healthy growth on a different curve.”
Home improvement retailer Lowe’s said March 12 that it collaborated with OpenAI and leveraged its own expert advice to create an artificial intelligence (AI) virtual home improvement assistant.
The tool lets customers get answers to project how-to questions while also searching for the proper products for their job.
In February, it was reported that OpenAI launched a multiyear agreement with BNY that gives the bank access to the AI company’s tools to boost BNY’s in-house AI platform, Eliza.
“We feel AI has transformational power and will be part of every product and service,” Sarthak Pattanaik, head of BNY’s AI hub, told The Wall Street Journal at the time.
AI datasets are changing how businesses handle everything from customer service to inventory management, PYMNTS reported in November. For example, companies build product recommendation systems trained on datasets containing millions of customer purchase histories and product interactions to suggest relevant items.
Klarna said in May 2024 that its internal AI assistant, Kiki, was being used by 85% of the company’s employees, was answering 2,000 employee questions per day and had responded to more than 250,000 inquiries since it was launched about 11 months earlier.
Rerun has secured $17 million in seed funding as it works to build out its database and cloud data platform purpose-built for the physical artificial intelligence (AI) data and workflows needed for robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones and spatial computing devices.
The database is designed to manage video streams, 3D scenes, tensors and other complex multimodal data, the company said in a Thursday (March 20) press release.
“Say a robot drives into a wall. Why did it do that? You need tools that allow you to see the world through the eyes of the robot to know why it acted the way it did,” Rerun Co-founder and CEO Nikolaus West said in the release. “That’s what we’ve built.”
The database will work with Rerun’s existing open source visualization toolkit that helps users create high-performance visualizations of physical AI data, according to the release.
Currently in development with select design partners, the database is scheduled to be made generally available later this year, per the release.
Ricardo Sequerra Amram, a partner at Point Nine, which led the seed funding round, said in the release that Rerun’s open-source project “allowed them to gain the trust of some of the most ambitious companies in the world of Physical AI.”
“As AI goes into the world of atoms, we believe Rerun can be the foundational platform enabling companies to build, iterate and ship better products continuously,” Amram said in the release.
This news comes shortly after some other announcements of investments in projects related to physical AI.
Dexterity said March 11 that it raised $95 million in additional funding to accelerate its development of physical AI. The company leverages hundreds of physical AI models to enable robots to load trucks and perform other tasks in logistics, warehousing and supply chain operations.
In February, Apptronik raised $350 million to help deploy its AI-powered humanoid robot, Apollo, which is designed to work alongside humans in a range of industries, including automotive, electronics, third-party logistics, beverage bottling and fulfillment, and consumer packaged goods.
In January, Sereact raised $26 million for its AI-powered robotics efforts, which include support for humanoid and mobile robots.
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