OpenAI is significantly expanding its Washington D.C. presence by tripling its policy team to 12 people. According to a report by Mohar Chatterjee in Politico, the company is positioning itself as crucial to U.S. competition with China. Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s head of global affairs, is leading efforts to promote an ambitious plan for AI infrastructure …
Meta is developing AI tools to create virtual characters that will populate its social media platforms, according to a report by Cristina Criddle and Hannah Murphy in the Financial Times. The company aims to integrate AI-generated profiles that can interact with its 3 billion users across Instagram and Facebook. Connor Hayes, Meta’s vice president of …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V3, a powerful new AI model that outperforms existing open-source alternatives. According to reporting by Shubham Sharma at VentureBeat, the model features 671 billion parameters but activates only 37 billion for each task through its mixture-of-experts architecture. The model was trained on 14.8 trillion diverse tokens and demonstrates superior …
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released QVQ-72B-Preview, a new experimental visual AI model designed to enhance visual reasoning capabilities. Built upon their Qwen2-VL-72B architecture, the model aims to combine language and vision processing to tackle complex analytical tasks. According to company statements, QVQ achieved a score of 70.3 on the MMMU benchmark, marking an improvement over …
Microsoft and OpenAI have established a financial benchmark for artificial general intelligence (AGI) in their partnership agreement, according to a report by The Information. The companies agreed that AGI will only be considered achieved when OpenAI develops AI systems generating at least $100 billion in annual profits. This definition differs significantly from traditional technical and …
ChatGPT experienced a significant outage on Thursday afternoon, leaving many users unable to access the AI chatbot service. According to reporting by Emma Roth at The Verge, the disruption began around 1:30 PM ET when users encountered internal server errors. OpenAI confirmed issues affecting ChatGPT, its API, and the Sora text-to-video generator. The root cause …
Microsoft is expanding beyond OpenAI’s technology for its Microsoft 365 Copilot service, according to a Reuters report by Anna Tong and Krystal Hu. The company is working to integrate both internal and third-party AI models to reduce costs and improve performance. While OpenAI remains a partner for advanced AI models, Microsoft aims to make the …
The Animation Guild has approved a new three-year contract with major studios, with 76.1% of members voting in favor. According to Variety reporter Gene Maddaus, the agreement includes wage increases of 7%, 4%, and 3.5% over three years, plus AI-related protections. While the contract establishes that AI work will be covered and cannot undermine members’ …
OpenAI has revealed more detailed plans to transform its corporate structure in 2025, converting from its current hybrid nonprofit/for-profit model into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC). According to a company announcement, the restructuring aims to enable OpenAI to raise the substantial capital needed to continue its artificial intelligence development while maintaining its mission to …
Leading AI research organizations are developing more challenging evaluation methods as current AI models consistently achieve top scores on traditional tests. According to Tharin Pillay’s article in Time Magazine, conventional benchmarks like SATs and bar exams no longer effectively measure AI capabilities. New evaluation frameworks include FrontierMath, developed by Epoch AI in collaboration with prominent …