Because "the running efficiency is not as expected", the message said that OpenAI stopped developing the AI model Arrakis.

CTOnews.com, October 19 (Xinhua)-- according to foreign media The Information, OpenAI has abandoned a new AI model called Arrakis, which is named after the desert planet Arrakis in the dunes.

It is said that the Arrakis model was built for ChatGPT, and OpenAI hopes the model will be more efficient than the GPT series, thus driving ChatGPT more cheaply, but the project has been officially cancelled because Arrakis "failed to live up to expectations" in the test.

Foreign media believe that this situation has disappointed Microsoft, the main supporter of OpenAI, and they hope to see OpenAI improve the efficiency of the model, thereby reducing the degree of "money burning".

Alberto Romero, an analyst at research firm CambrianAI, said that the development of generative AI is full of uncertainty, and the setback of OpenAI may give GPT-4 's competitor, Gemini from Google, extra development time to help Google surpass OpenAI in AI.

But for OpenAI, which is now in the limelight, the failure is far from a matter of life and death for the company.

CTOnews.com reported earlier today that OpenAI is seeking to sell its employees' existing shares at a valuation of $86 billion (CTOnews.com Note: about RMB 629.52 billion). If the deal goes through, OpenAI will become one of the most highly valued start-ups in the world, although that valuation is slightly below the $90 billion (currently about 658.8 billion yuan) ceiling revealed in September.

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