OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed at the TED2025 conference on 11 April 2025 that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, representing approximately 10% of the world's population. The company's image generation feature launched on 25 March has driven extraordinary growth, with the platform gaining
On 16 April 2025, OpenAI officially launched Codex CLI, an open-source coding tool that runs in the terminal and transforms natural language instructions into executable code. The new tool integrates OpenAI's advanced language models, including o3 and o4-mini, with local coding and computing tasks, enabling developers to perform
In early April 2025, the European Commission officially prohibited AI-powered virtual assistants from participating in its online meetings, first implementing the ban during a video conference with representatives from a network of digital policy support offices across Europe, where an "Online Meeting Etiquette" slide clearly stated: "No
On 2 April 2025, OpenAI introduced PaperBench, a novel performance evaluation system designed to assess AI agents’ capabilities in replicating cutting-edge artificial intelligence research. Developed as part of the OpenAI Preparedness Framework, which measures AI systems’ readiness for complex tasks, PaperBench specifically challenges AI agents to accurately replicate 20 significant
In 2025, AI agents built on foundation models are revolutionising enterprise environments, surpassing traditional generative AI solutions. While most organisations still deploy ChatGPT-like applications, leading companies are adopting autonomous AI agents that respond to commands and execute complex business processes with minimal human intervention. Data-driven results from enterprise implementations demonstrate
On 4 April 2025, GitHub released a public preview of its official, open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, enabling developers to facilitate seamless communication between artificial intelligence models and the GitHub API. This development is significant as it provides a unified approach for AI models to access GitHub functionalities, such
In March 2025, the IBM AI Ethics Board published a comprehensive report on artificial intelligence agents, detailing the opportunities presented by AI agents, their associated risks, and recommended risk mitigation strategies, highlighting that these systems can create significant value for companies while introducing new types of sociotechnical risks requiring advanced
On 26 March 2025, Microsoft announced the introduction of two new AI agents with deep reasoning capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Named "Researcher" and "Analyst," these agents leverage OpenAI technology and will become available to users in April through a new "Frontier" programme.
The AI 2027 report, published on 3 April 2025 under the leadership of former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, presents a detailed roadmap of the accelerating development of artificial intelligence. It predicts that by the end of 2027, AI systems will surpass human capabilities, potentially leading to a severe international crisis
On 3 March 2025, Google launched its new Data Science Agent tool, powered by Gemini 2.0 artificial intelligence, on the Colab platform. The new AI agent automates data analysis processes and generates complete Jupyter notebooks based on simple natural language instructions. Integrated into Colab, the tool is primarily designed
Manus, the general artificial intelligence agent developed by the Wuhan-based Butterfly Effect startup and debuted in early March 2025, has gained global attention with praise from influential tech personalities such as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Victor Mustar, Head of Product at Hugging Face. The platform, which describes itself as
In March 2025, Sakana AI’s "AI Scientist-v2" system achieved a significant milestone by producing the first fully AI-generated scientific paper to successfully pass peer review at a workshop of the ICLR conference. The research team submitted three AI-generated studies, one of which—titled "Compositional Regularization: Unexpected
