Blogs - Machine Learning


AMPLab – UC Berkeley
- Making cities safer: data collection for Vision Zero 2017-04-26A critical part of enabling cities to implement their Vision Zero policies – the goal of the current National Transportation … Continue reading →Shankari
- Data Hackathons Workshop: Early Career Funding Available 2016-09-01The West Big Data Innovation Hub (WBDIH) is excited to host a Data Hackathons: Lessons Learned and Best Practices Workshop … Continue reading →Meredith Lee
- CACM Article on Randomized Linear Algebra 2016-06-02Each month the Communications of the ACM publishes an invited “Review Article” paper chosen from across the field of Computer … Continue reading →Michael Mahoney
- Scientific Matrix Factorizations In Spark at Scale 2016-06-02The canonical example of matrix decompositions, the Principal Components Analysis (PCA), is ubiquitous, with applications in many scientific fields including neuroscience, … Continue reading →Alex Gittens
- Technical Preview of Apache Spark 2.0: Easier, Faster, and Smarter 2016-05-19This is a guest blog post originally published on the Databricks blog. For the past few months, we have … Continue reading →Reynold Xin
- AMPLab postdoc Julian Shun wins the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016-05-11I am very pleased to announce that Julian Shun has been awarded the ACM’s doctoral dissertation award for his 2015 … Continue reading →Michael Mahoney
- Unexpected continuous location tracking/energy change in android? 2016-04-15So this is really weird, but I have found what seems to be unexpected continuous location tracking that is causing … Continue reading →Shankari
- Strata Keynote: “What’s Next for the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack” 2016-04-01The Strata+Hadoop World big data industry conference was held in San Jose this week and as usual, AMPLab and Berkeley were … Continue reading →Michael Franklin
- 40-Year Goodbye: A Last Lecture and Symposium 2016-03-29Hoping to start a new tradition, I’m giving a Last Lecture on Friday May 6, 2016 at 4PM, which is … Continue reading →Patterson
- What’s new in KeystoneML 2016-03-29At the AMPLab, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the performance and user experience of large scale advanced … Continue reading →sparks
OpenAI News
- Introducing gpt-realtime and Realtime API updates 2025-08-28We’re releasing a more advanced speech-to-speech model and new API capabilities including MCP server support, image input, and SIP phone calling support.
- Supporting nonprofit and community innovation 2025-08-28OpenAI launches a $50M People-First AI Fund to help U.S. nonprofits scale impact with AI. Applications open Sept 8–Oct 8, 2025 for grants in education, healthcare, research, and more.
- Collective alignment: public input on our Model Spec 2025-08-27OpenAI surveyed over 1,000 people worldwide on how AI should behave and compared their views to our Model Spec. Learn how collective alignment is shaping AI defaults to better reflect diverse human values and perspectives.
- OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a joint safety evaluation 2025-08-27OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation, testing each other’s models for misalignment, instruction following, hallucinations, jailbreaking, and more—highlighting progress, challenges, and the value of cross-lab collaboration.
- Helping people when they need it most 2025-08-26How we think about safety for users experiencing mental or emotional distress, the limits of today’s systems, and the work underway to refine them.
- Announcing the OpenAI Learning Accelerator 2025-08-25OpenAI announces the launch of OpenAI Learning Accelerator, an initiative that aims to bring advanced AI to India’s educators and millions of learners nationwide through accelerated AI research, training, and deployment.
- Accelerating life sciences research 2025-08-22Discover how a specialized AI model, GPT-4b micro, helped OpenAI and Retro Bio engineer more effective proteins for stem cell therapy and longevity research.
- Scaling domain expertise in complex, regulated domains 2025-08-21Discover how Blue J is transforming tax research with AI-powered tools built on GPT-4.1. By combining domain expertise with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Blue J delivers fast, accurate, and fully-cited tax answers—trusted by professionals across the US, Canada, and the UK.
- Mixi reimagines communication with ChatGPT 2025-08-20Discover how MIXI, a leader in digital entertainment and lifestyle services in Japan, uses ChatGPT Enterprise to transform productivity, boost AI adoption across teams, and create a secure environment for innovation.
- Q&A with DoorDash’s CPO, Mariana Garavaglia 2025-08-18Learn how DoorDash is scaling AI adoption to empower employees to build, learn, and innovate faster in a conversation with Chief People Officer Mariana Garavaglia.
- OpenAI’s letter to Governor Newsom on harmonized regulation 2025-08-12We’ve just sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom calling for California to lead the way in harmonizing state-based AI regulation with national—and, by virtue of US leadership, emerging global—standards.
- Scaling accounting capacity with OpenAI 2025-08-12Built with OpenAI o3, o3-Pro, GPT-4.1, and GPT-5, Basis’ AI agents help accounting firms save up to 30% of their time and expand capacity for advisory and growth.
- Introducing GPT-5 for developers 2025-08-07Introducing GPT-5 in our API platform—offering high reasoning performance, new controls for devs, and best-in-class results on real coding tasks.
- GPT-5 and the new era of work 2025-08-07GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model—transforming enterprise AI, automation, and workforce productivity in the new era of intelligent work.
- Coding and design with GPT-5 2025-08-07Learn how GPT-5 unlocks new possibilities in coding and design.
- Creative writing with GPT-5 2025-08-07Learn how GPT-5 assists with creative writing.
- Medical research with GPT-5 2025-08-07Learn how GPT-5 is used for medical research.
- How Amgen uses GPT-5 2025-08-07Learn how Amgen uses GPT-5.
- From hard refusals to safe-completions: toward output-centric safety training 2025-08-07Discover how OpenAI's new safe-completions approach in GPT-5 improves both safety and helpfulness in AI responses—moving beyond hard refusals to nuanced, output-centric safety training for handling dual-use prompts.
- How Cursor uses GPT-5 2025-08-07Learn how Cursor uses GPT-5.