OpenAI has continued its marathon of announcements with full availability of its canvas tool.
A day after OpenAI dropped its AI video generator Sora, the company shared that Canvas has moved out of beta. Additionally, users can run python code inside a canvas document, and canvas is also available for custom GPTs.
Canvas was introduced in October as a editing tool for writing and coding. It’s a notebook interface that sits beside the user’s ChatGPT chatbot conversation, which allows users to edit responses and “collaborate” with ChatGPT. New to canvas is the ability to get feedback and edits in the form of comments. From here, users can make changes based on ChatGPT’s suggestions.
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OpenAI has also made programming improvements. By copying and pasting code into ChatGPT, it can recognize the code and switch to code editor mode to help debug or find any errors. Users can also run the code directly within the interface and identify any problems.
Today’s announcement was the fourth day of “12 Days of OpenAI” where every business day, the AI company shares something new. So far, we’ve seen the introduction of a ChatGPT Pro plan for $200 a month, reinforcement fine-tuning for developers, and of course, Sora.
The Sora release has been the biggest news so far, courting hype and controversy ever since its introduction last February. The AI video generator is capable of rendering photorealistic sequences from simple text prompts and has new features for editing AI-generated footage. OpenAI says it was trained on publicly available data, although critics argue data should have been obtained with credit and compensation of the original creators.
Sora’s debut continues to attract lots of attention online, which has overshadowed some of the more minor releases like the Canvas announcement. What else OpenAI plans to share over the next eight days is unclear. But users are speculating about an AI agent preview, o1 with vision capabilities, and remain hopeful for GPT-5.
