Annual Revenue Exceeding 1 Billion Dollars? OpenAI's 'Money-Making Tricks'

Shenzhen University's Artificial Intelligence Institute Officially Unveiled, Boosting AI Talent Cultivation

On April 21, 2025, Shenzhen University officially unveiled its Artificial Intelligence Institute, marking a significant step forward in the university's AI education and research. According to Shenzhen TV's Deep Vision News report, the institute will establish a basic research center and a computing platform, and will collaborate with Tencent Cloud to build an industry academy, promoting deep integration of industry, academia, and research. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image authorization service provider Midjourney. Currently, the Artificial Intelligence Institute boasts a strong team of approximately 80 teachers and researchers.

Rapid Advancement of AI in Advertising: Publishers Leading the Way

According to a 2025 early release study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), while the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in advertising is rising, only 30% of advertising professionals have fully integrated AI into their media advertising lifecycle. The study reveals that while agencies and brands primarily leverage AI for audience identification and targeting, publishers are more inclined to utilize AI for ad inventory forecasting and demand analysis. The survey highlights two major challenges facing the advertising industry in AI adoption...

iFlytek's StarFire X1 Receives Major Upgrade: Aims to Rival OpenAI in AI

On April 21st, iFlytek officially announced a significant upgrade to its AI model, StarFire X1, aiming to compete with OpenAI's models in intelligent reasoning and multi-tasking capabilities. This domestically-trained large language model excels in various general tasks, including mathematics, programming, logical reasoning, text generation, language understanding, and knowledge question answering. This upgrade incorporates data from more complex scenarios, significantly improving the model's performance.

OpenAI CEO Critiques Politeness as Wasteful in AI Interactions

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently argued that using polite language like "please" and "thank you" with chatbots like ChatGPT is wasteful, consuming excessive electricity and computing resources. Altman suggests that while politeness may be culturally expected or perceived to improve interaction quality, it unnecessarily burdens AI systems. Each instance of polite language adds to the computational load.

Netflix Launches New AI Search with Natural Language Input

OpenAI's o3 Model Test Scores Questioned; Actual Performance Falls Far Short of Claims

OpenAI's recently released o3 AI model has sparked controversy over its benchmark test performance. While OpenAI confidently claimed in December that the model could correctly answer over a quarter of the highly challenging FrontierMath math problems, this assertion starkly contrasts with recent independent test results. The Epoch Institute's independent testing revealed the model achieved only a 10% success rate, significantly lower than advertised.

OpenAI's 4o Model Image Generation Now Supports Custom GPTs, Enhancing Personalized AI Creation

OpenAI recently announced that its latest 4o model's image generation capabilities will now support custom GPTs, offering users a more flexible and personalized AI creation experience. According to AIbase, this update allows developers and users to build customized GPTs based on the 4o model, generating high-quality image content tailored to specific needs. The announcement has sparked widespread discussion within the AI community, marking another significant advancement by OpenAI in the field of personalized AI tools. Technical details are available on the official OpenAI platform.

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Beyond ChatGPT: OpenAI's Secret Weapon - A Practical Guide to Building Agents

OpenAI recently released a practical guide to building agents, a true handbook for AI practitioners! This guide will demystify the process of creating your own AI agents in a fun and accessible way. Get ready to learn the essentials! But first, what exactly is an Agent...?

OpenAI Releases 34-Page Guide to Building Intelligent Agents: From Web Search to Code Generation

On April 17, 2025, OpenAI announced via social media the release of a 34-page "Practical Guide to Intelligent Agents," offering developers comprehensive guidance on building agent applications. This marks another significant advancement in OpenAI's efforts to promote the practical application and standardization of AI technology. According to the announcement, the guide details how to utilize OpenAI's Responses API to build agents capable of web search, file search, and computer interaction. The Responses API is an evolution of Cha...