In collaboration with Stainless, a platform for high-quality, easy-to-use APIs, OpenAI has announced the release of Version 4 of their TypeScript/Node SDK for the OpenAI API. 

The update includes a new set of improvements such as streaming responses for chat and completions, improved TypeScript types, compatibility with ESM, Vercel edge functions, Cloudflare workers, and Deno, a better file upload API for Whisper, fine-tune files, and DALL-E images, enhanced error handling through automatic retries and error classes, improved performance via TCP connection reuse, and simpler initialisation logic. Several users have taken to X to share their excitement about the project. 

For more information on how to access the new version, you can check out their  Github, NPM and migration guide.

Additionally, OpenAI has acquired the team at AI design studio Global Illumination to work on our core products including ChatGPT. The team, with prior experience in creating and developing products during the initial stages at Instagram and Facebook, has also played a substantial role in advancing various projects at renowned companies like YouTube, Google, Pixar, Riot Games, and other prominent firms.

All of these updates come amid the ChatGPT website experiencing reduced user activity. By the end of July, the user base further decreased by 12% to 1.5 billion users compared to 1.7 billion in June, as reported by SimilarWeb, excluding API usage. 

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