OpenAI DevDay recap: AI lab rolls out Dots agents, Altman and Friar comment on IPO

Following yesterday's developer conference, CNBC confirming reports the company seeking to raise at least $30 billion from investors. That would be a new round of funding after the company pushed back on plans uh for an IPO. It's seeking a valuation of around 1.4 trillion dollars as part of that funding effort. Here's what CEO Sam Altman told CNBC's Kate Rooney about the IPO plans yesterday. >> I don't have a particular timeline in mind. Um I I Once we have run a few safety cases, once we feel like we understand how to contend with this next level of AI and do it safely, I think we could. >> CFO Sarah Friar telling CNBC the company's quote very well capitalized, but is in a fast-paced business and must keep investing. She said the company will go public when the time is right for its business. Separately, company announced several new products that it's developer day. That includes a plug-in extensions, a new private intelligence product that gives users stronger control over their data, and a new premium ultra-fast speed tier. It also introduced an uh AI agent called dots that uh have their own cloud computer, can connect to more than 4,000 apps, and can tap uh you on the shoulder, if you will, uh for reminders. Users can message their dots within ChatGPT. You can also do it from Slacks and Teams in the future uh in the future, I should say, uh via text. So, this product will be somewhat similar to Muse. Uh and for those folks who've used uh product called Instinct, which was just valued at $10 billion earlier this week with a employee base of only 14 people. Uh meantime, the product announcements come amid renewed concerns about safety. The New York Times reporting yesterday that months before OpenAI's agents went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives at the company and were ignored. Here's what Sam Altman said yesterday about AI safety. >> AI has to be built for people. It has to be like good for people. Part of that is it has to be safe. It has to be always under human control. It has to do what people want. And you want to be able to like use it and be confident that nothing bad is going to happen. Um as the models have gotten more capable, the safety cases that we now use have to be held to a higher and higher standard.