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2025.04.17

12:07

OpenAI and SoftBank's Stargate project considers investment in the UK

Stargate, the $500 billion U.S. data center project led by OpenAI and SoftBank, is considering future investments in the U.K. as the company looks abroad to build the global infrastructure needed to support powerful artificial intelligence models. Britain has become one of the top choices for the project amid a recent push by Prime Minister Starmer’s government to increase investment in the artificial intelligence industry, including a plan to boost energy access for AI developers, three people familiar with the matter said.

12:04

According to the Financial Times: The "Stargate" artificial intelligence project led by OpenAI and SoftBank is considering investing in the UK in the future.

03:59

o4-mini releases the strongest and smartest model in OpenAI's history

At 1 a.m. today, OpenAI conducted a technical live broadcast and released its strongest and smartest models, o4-mini and the full-blooded version of o3. o4-mini and o3 are two multimodal models that can process text, images, and audio at the same time, and can automatically call tools such as network search, image generation, code parsing, and deep thinking mode (thinking images in the thinking chain) as agent intelligent bodies. According to the test data released by OpenAI, o4-mini reached 93.4% and 92.7% in AIME 2024 and 2025 respectively, which is stronger than the full-blooded version of o3, becoming the model with the highest accuracy rate at present; it reached 2700 points in the Codeforces test, becoming one of the top 200 strongest programmers in the world.

02:16

Market news: OpenAI is reportedly in talks to acquire Windsurf for approximately US$3 billion.

02:10

OpenAI reportedly in talks to acquire Windsurf for around $3 billion

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to acquire WINDSURF for approximately $3 billion.

01:08

OpenAI releases new AI models o3 and o4-mini

OpenAI released new AI models o3 and o4-mini, which imitate human reasoning to solve complex programming and visual tasks; and released the open source AI agent CodeX CLI to help users perform programming tasks, thereby improving market competitiveness.

2025.04.16

07:38

OpenAI acquires Context.ai team

London-based AI startup Context.ai announced on April 15 that its team will join OpenAI. The company was founded in 2023 by former Google employees Henry Scott-Green (CEO) and Alex Gamble (CTO).

05:28

OpenAI announced that Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Dr. Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver have been appointed as advisors to its nonprofit board.

02:19

OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network

2025.04.15

23:53

OpenAI reportedly building a social network similar to Platform X

OpenAI is reportedly building a social network similar to the X platform that focuses on GPT's image generation capabilities, and the project is still in its early stages.

23:50

According to The Verge: OpenAI is building a social network similar to the X platform, which focuses on GPT's image generation function. The project is still in its early stages.

01:22

OpenAI founder Sam Altman: GPT-4.1 (and -Mini and -Nano) now available in the API

OpenAI founder Sam Altman: GPT-4.1 (and -Mini and -Nano) are now available in the API.

2025.04.14

13:02

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: DeepSeek has not affected the growth of GPT and will promote better open source models

At TED2025 held recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, "The emergence of DeepSeek has not affected the growth of GPT, and better open source models will be launched."

2025.04.11

22:42

OpenAI announces that GPT-4 will be removed from ChatGPT on April 30, 2025

On April 11, OpenAI announced in an update log that GPT-4 will be removed from ChatGPT on April 30, 2025 and completely replaced by GPT4o. However, developers can still continue to call GPT-4 in the API.

12:44

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT's memory capabilities to retrieve historical chat records

On April 11, Beijing time, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT's memory ability has been greatly improved, and it can refer to all historical chat records of users to provide more personalized responses. ChatGPT's memory function improvements will be gradually opened to all Plus and Pro subscribers from now on. Team, Enterprise and Education Edition users will be given access in the coming weeks.

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