ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hosts its first big tech showcase as the AI startup faces growing competition

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN
AP Technology Writers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Less than a year into its meteoric rise, the company behind ChatGPT has unveiled the future it has in mind for its artificial intelligence technology. On Monday, it launched a new line of chatbot products that can be customized to a variety of tasks. At an event held in a cavernous former Honda dealership in OpenAI’s hometown of San Francisco, the company unveiled a new version called GPT-4 Turbo that it says is more capable and can retrieve information about world and cultural events as recent as April 2023 — unlike previous versions that couldn’t answer questions about anything that happened after 2021.