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OpenAI has officially launched the gpt-image-1 API, marking the opening of its highly anticipated 4o image generation capabilities to developers. According to AIbase, this API is lauded by the community as the world's strongest 'image generation' tool due to its high-fidelity image generation, diverse visual styles, and powerful integration of world knowledge. The release announcement has generated significant excitement among AI developers and the creative community, with relevant documentation now publicly available via the OpenAI website and Playground platform. Core features: High-fidelity and diverse style generation

OpenAI recently announced that it has made its latest image generation capabilities available to developers via API, allowing them to integrate this advanced technology into various applications and services. This news offers developers a significant opportunity, particularly in the fields of image processing and creation. The newly launched image generation model, named "gpt-image-1," leverages the image generation technology behind ChatGPT. Since its launch at the end of March this year, users have been able to create realistic Ghibli-style images and various other visuals.

According to information disclosed by OpenAI in its latest report, ChatGPT's search functionality is experiencing remarkable growth in Europe. ChatGPT search allows users to retrieve up-to-date web information via a chatbot and integrate this information into answers. OpenAI Ireland Limited, OpenAI's EU subsidiary, stated that the average monthly active users for ChatGPT search reached approximately 41.3 million in the six months ending March 31st of this year. This figure...

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...

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...

Wikipedia recently announced the release of a dataset optimized for AI model training, in collaboration with Kaggle, Google's data science community platform. This initiative aims to reduce the scraping of Wikipedia data by AI developers, conserving the platform's bandwidth and server resources. The dataset includes structured Wikipedia information in English and French, offering high machine readability for AI developers to facilitate modeling, fine-tuning, and data analysis. The Wikimedia Foundation stated that this data...

To address the increasingly competitive AI market, OpenAI recently introduced a new API called Flex Processing. This new option allows users to utilize AI models at a lower cost, although with some trade-offs in response speed and availability. Flex Processing is designed to support lower-priority and non-production tasks such as model evaluation, data enrichment, and asynchronous workloads. Specifically, Flex Processing offers significantly reduced costs. For example, when using the o3 model, Flex Processing's price is...

The open-source community recently welcomed a heavyweight tool – FastAPI-MCP. This near zero-configuration tool automatically converts FastAPI application interfaces into Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, opening a new path for seamless interaction between AI models and backend services. According to AIbase, FastAPI-MCP has quickly gained popularity among developers for its ease of use and high flexibility, finding widespread application in AI-driven automation scenarios. The project is now open-source; source code available.

Doubao recently released a series of updates to its large models. Doubao 1.5 Deep Thinking model and Doubao Text-to-Image 3.0 model are now officially available via Volcano Engine's open APIs for developers and enterprise clients. These two models have achieved industry-leading performance in both reasoning and general tasks, and have made significant progress in visual reasoning and image generation.

The health tech sector has seen significant funding recently, highlighting the rapid rise and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Early-stage venture capital firm SignalFire secured $1 billion in funding to support AI-focused startups. This brings SignalFire's total assets under management to $3 billion, underscoring its prominence in the industry. SignalFire's portfolio includes several healthcare startups, such as Grow.

Firecrawl announces the launch of its latest AI-powered data extraction tool, FIRE-1, marking a significant step towards intelligent web data extraction. FIRE-1 builds upon Firecrawl's strengths in efficient data extraction, integrating advanced AI interaction capabilities to enable intelligent navigation of complex website structures and dynamic content handling. FIRE-1: Beyond Traditional Web Scraping Traditional web scraping tools often rely on static HTML parsing or manual configuration, struggling with JavaScript-driven dynamic websites.

Venture capital firm SignalFire announced it has secured over $1 billion in funding to support next-generation early-stage technology startups, particularly those innovating in applied artificial intelligence (AI). This capital will be allocated across multiple programs including SignalFire's Seed, Early, XIR (High-Retention), and Opportunity programs. The firm stated that this funding will be used to back founders pursuing disruptive innovations with the potential to 'reshape entire categories'. Image note: Image generated by AI, image licensing provided by Midjourney.

Stanford University's AI Index Report 2025 offers a fresh perspective on the global AI landscape. The report highlights Alibaba's significant contribution, ranking third globally among major large language models, establishing it as a leading Chinese tech company. In 2024, China contributed 15 models globally, with Alibaba contributing 6, trailing only Google and OpenAI with 7 models each. This achievement reflects Alibaba's ongoing commitment to technological innovation.

A 17-year-old developer has successfully ported the ChatGPT application to older models of iPhones, breathing new life into vintage devices.

At SenseTime's Technology Exchange Day on April 10th, the company launched its latest multimodal large model, SenseNova V6, and the SenseCore 2.0 system. This new version aims to integrate various information formats, including text, images, and videos, to provide users with a more natural and richer interactive experience. The SenseNova V6 series includes four versions, with SenseNova V6Pro being the most notable.

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has recently begun offering its flagship Grok 3 model via API. This launch aims to compete with AI offerings like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini. Grok3 boasts image analysis capabilities and the ability to answer related questions, powering several features on Musk's social network, X. Notably, X was acquired by xAI in March, further strengthening the synergy between the two.