Engineering Insights

Latency numbers every frontend developer should know

Web page load times and responsiveness to user action in web apps is a primary driver of user satisfaction–and both are often dominated by network latency. Latency itself is a function of the user's connection to the internet (Wifi, LTE, 5G), how far away the server is that the user is connecting to, and the quality of the network in between. While the latency numbers may seem low by themselves, they compound quickly. For example, a of depth 3 on a 300ms link leads to a total latency of 900ms.

Introducing more enterprise-grade features for API customers

Increasing enterprise support with more security features and controls, updates to our Assistants API, and tools to better manage costs.

OpenAI’s commitment to child safety: adopting safety by design principles

Introducing the Open Chain of Thought Leaderboard

React Native 0.74 - Yoga 3.0, Bridgeless New Architecture, and more

Today we're releasing React Native 0.74! This release adds Yoga 3.0, Bridgeless by default under the New Architecture, batched onLayout updates (New Architecture), and Yarn 3 as the default package manager for new projects.

Jack of All Trades, Master of Some, a Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent

The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions

Today's LLMs are susceptible to prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other attacks that allow adversaries to overwrite a model's original instructions with their own malicious prompts.

The Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Healthcare