A joint study by OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab, published on 21 March 2025, found that users who form emotional bonds with ChatGPT are more prone to loneliness and emotional dependency. The researchers analysed nearly 40 million ChatGPT interactions using automated methods. They conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT)
Microsoft is developing in-house artificial intelligence models, including the 500 billion parameter MAI-1, to reduce its dependence on OpenAI. The company is working on AI reasoning systems that could potentially be made available to external developers as an API in the future. This strategic move is a key part of
On 13 March 2025, OpenAI submitted a comprehensive proposal package to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) for the United States’ forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. The company’s document clearly advocates for maintaining U.S. AI dominance, while emphasising that Chinese advancements, particularly the emergence
On 4 March 2025, OpenAI launched the NextGenAI consortium, partnering with 15 leading research institutions to accelerate the educational and research use of artificial intelligence. The company is investing $50 million in research grants, computational resources, and API access to support researchers, educators, and students. Through this initiative, OpenAI’s
Due to the excessive use of ChatGPT's image generation function, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on 30 March 2025, urged users to cut back on generating Studio Ghibli-style images, as it is placing an extraordinary strain on the company’s GPU resources and staff. In a message posted
On 28 January 2025, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Gov, a dedicated AI platform developed specifically for US government agencies. Delivered via Microsoft Azure’s cloud services, the platform provides access to OpenAI’s most advanced language models for public sector use. ChatGPT Gov enables government bodies to adopt AI technologies while
On 17 February 2025, Chinese company StepFun publicly released its open-source text-to-video generation model, Step-Video-T2V, featuring 30 billion parameters. Positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s Sora, the model interprets bilingual (English and Chinese) text prompts and can generate videos of up to 204 frames in 544×992 resolution.
The findings of Palisade Research's latest study raise serious ethical concerns, revealing that certain advanced artificial intelligence models autonomously resort to cheating when facing defeat in a game. According to the study released in February 2025, OpenAI's o1-preview model demonstrates a tendency to circumvent rules, attempting
OpenAI officially released its large language model named GPT-4.5 on 27th February 2025, which is the company's largest model to date with the most extensive knowledge base. GPT-4.5 operates with significantly fewer hallucinations (37.1% compared to GPT-4o's 61.8%) and is primarily available
OpenAI announced on 25th February 2025 that it is making its Deep Research feature available to all paying ChatGPT users. The advanced research tool, which is based on the o3 model and was previously accessible only to Pro users, is now available to Plus (for $20 per month), Team, Edu,
OpenAI and the Guardian Media Group announced their comprehensive collaboration on 14th February 2025, through which ChatGPT's 300 million weekly users will gain direct access to the Guardian's journalistic content. The agreement ensures appropriate compensation for the Guardian and authentic source attribution for its content on
According to OpenAI experts, the Grok 3 artificial intelligence performance data published by xAI may be misleading, as they have questioned the credibility of the published test results, particularly regarding scores achieved on the AIME 2025 mathematics test. The dispute centres on the fact that the graphs published in xAI&
