• OpenAI has announced that it will host its first ever developer conference on 6th November in San Francisco, California.
• The OpenAI DevDay is set to be an in-person event, with those attending capable of joining breakout sessions with the company’s technical staff.
• While a preview of GPT-5 is unlikely, new generative AI tools and features are expected for the developer conference.

OpenAI has announced that it will be hosting its first-ever developer conference later this year on 6th November.

Given the fervour around ChatGPT for most of 2023, as well as much of the discourse regarding the ethics surrounding AI development of late, hosting a developer conference seems a necessary move.

The OpenAI DevDay as it has been christened will be a single-day event, which will be held at a yet-to-be-determined venue somewhere in San Francisco, California.

“The one-day event will bring hundreds of developers from around the world together with the team at OpenAI to preview new tools and exchange ideas. In-person attendees will also be able to join breakout sessions led by members of OpenAI’s technical staff,” the company noted in a blog post.

“We’re looking forward to showing our latest work to enable developers to build new things,” hinted Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

For those hoping DevDay will see a preview of GPT-5 make an appearance, as TechCrunch points out, the likelihood of that is relatively slim right now, given that Altman said in April this year that training on the new model of ChatGPT will not begin for some time.

That said, we could hear news on when training for GPT-5 will begin in earnest. The same will hopefully go for new features and tools that OpenAI is working on, such as making it easier to identify what content has been AI-generated and what has not.

Either way, with more than 2 million developers making use of GPT-4, GPT-3.5, DALL·E, and Whisper, according to OpenAI, this upcoming conference needs to happen.

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