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January

4 events

Editors' summary

The GPT Store opens, and 'military' leaves the usage policy

On 10 January, OpenAI opened the GPT Store, a place to publish and share the GPTs users had built. It had been promised for late 2023 at DevDay in November and slipped into the new year after the board upheaval that same month. ChatGPT Team, a plan for smaller business teams, launched the same day.

Also on the 10th, OpenAI revised its usage policies, and the clause barring use for "military and warfare" was gone. The company described the revision as a rewrite for readability; The Intercept reported it on the 12th and it drew attention, with OpenAI acknowledging that it was already working with the US Department of Defense.

On the 15th, Microsoft began selling Copilot Pro to individuals at $20 a month, and dropped the 300-seat minimum on Copilot for Microsoft 365 to open it to smaller businesses.

This block is written by the editors. It is kept separate from the sourced record below.

Record4 events
  1. 10
    ProductOpenAI

    OpenAI opens the GPT Store and launches ChatGPT Team

    OpenAI opened the GPT Store, where users can publish and share the GPTs they have built. Available to ChatGPT Plus, Team and Enterprise users, it organises GPTs into categories such as writing, research, programming and education, with a leaderboard of popular ones. The same day OpenAI launched ChatGPT Team, a plan for smaller business teams at $25 per user per month billed annually, or $30 billed monthly. The store had been promised for late 2023 at DevDay in November, and slipped into the new year after the board upheaval that same month.

  2. 10
    PolicyOpenAI

    OpenAI's usage policy drops its ban on "military and warfare"

    OpenAI revised its usage policies, and the line listing "military and warfare" and "weapons development" as examples of activity with a high risk of physical harm was gone. The revised policy still says not to use the service to harm yourself or others, and gives developing or using weapons as an example. OpenAI described the revision as a rewrite for readability. The Intercept reported the change on 12 January, and the company acknowledged that it was already working with the US Department of Defense, including with DARPA on tools to secure open-source software.

  3. 15
    ProductMicrosoft

    Microsoft launches Copilot Pro for individuals

    Microsoft launched Copilot Pro, a $20-a-month consumer subscription. It bundles Copilot inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, priority access to the latest models at peak times, and faster image generation. The same day Microsoft opened Copilot for Microsoft 365 to small and medium businesses by dropping the previous 300-seat minimum, and made the Copilot apps for iOS and Android generally available.

  4. 21
    PolicySteve Kramer

    Robocalls with a cloned Biden voice tell voters to stay home

    Two days before the New Hampshire primary, voters in the state received robocalls carrying a recording that imitated President Biden's voice. It urged them not to vote in Tuesday's primary but to "save your vote for the November election," and the caller ID had been spoofed to show the number of a local political consultant. The state attorney general's office opened an investigation the next day; who had sent the calls was not known at that point. Pindrop, a voice-fraud detection firm that analysed the audio against more than a hundred text-to-speech systems, was reported to have concluded it was "almost certainly created with ElevenLabs' technology." Bloomberg, citing a person who asked not to be named, reported that ElevenLabs had traced the audio to an account and suspended it; the company said it does not comment on individual cases and has not said whose account it was. It was taken as the case of a real politician's cloned voice reaching American voters directly, on the phone.

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