During a continuous 12-day live event, OpenAI released the O1 model API to developers on the 9th day and announced significant upgrades to the real-time API, supporting WebRTC technology. Starting from the release date, OpenAI will provide access to the O1 API for developers at usage level 5. Compared to the previous preview version, this updated O1 model API achieves a 60% reduction in thinking costs and adds advanced visual processing capabilities. Meanwhile, GPT-4o has improved in audio processing.

OpenAI has announced the long-awaited video chat and screen sharing features in its premium voice mode. This new functionality is now available to ChatGPT Teams, Plus, and Pro users in the iOS and Android mobile applications, with plans to roll it out to ChatGPT Enterprise and Education subscription users in January next year. However, users from the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein will not have access to this premium voice mode.

Recently, Alibaba DAMO Academy (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.'s model open-source community, ModelScope, announced a significant breakthrough: the release of the InternVL 2.5 model. This open-source multimodal large language model has achieved exceptional performance, becoming the first open-source model to exceed 70% accuracy on the Multimodal Understanding Benchmark (MMMU), rivaling commercial models like GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet.

Since its launch in 2022, ChatGPT has marked a significant shift in human-computer interaction. What started as a novel experiment has rapidly grown into an indispensable digital tool in many people's daily lives. Statistics show that ChatGPT attracted over one million users within just five days of its launch, and by November 2023, the number of weekly active users reached 100 million. By August 2024, this figure surpassed 200 million, with monthly visits reaching approximately 3.1 billion. Such an impressive user base reflects the impact of ChatGPT.

Microsoft recently released the open-source library TinyTroupe, a groundbreaking AI system that simulates human behavior in virtual environments, providing businesses with innovative product testing and market research solutions. TinyTroupe utilizes large language models such as GPT-4o to create AI agents called "TinyPersons" with unique personalities, interests, and goals. These virtual agents can interact within "TinyWorlds" environments, simulating real user scenarios. Unlike traditional game simulations, Tin

Recently, the competition between Google and OpenAI has intensified again. Just one day after the new GPT-4o topped the AI rankings, Google launched its latest beta model, Gemini-Exp-1121, quickly regaining the championship title. Just a week prior, Google had released Gemini-Exp-1114, indicating a rapid response from Google to OpenAI's developments. Jack Rae, the Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind, stated that

OpenAI has launched a major upgrade to its ChatGPT Plus subscription users with the latest large language model (LLM) upgrade - the 'Creative Writing' feature of ChatGPT-4o. According to a brief statement from OpenAI on X (formerly Twitter), the upgraded model's writing capabilities are more natural and engaging, and can be tailored to user needs, enhancing the relevance and readability of the content. With this upgrade, ChatGPT-4o is considered to have reached new heights in the field of creative writing.

OpenAI has announced a significant upgrade to its flagship model GPT-4o, further enhancing its performance in reasoning, cross-media, and conversational abilities. This update is referred to as ChatGPT-4o (20241120) and aims to provide users with a more natural and engaging text generation experience. Prior to the upgrade, OpenAI conducted rigorous performance testing on GPT-4o in a large language model (LLM) environment known as the 'Chatbot Arena'.

OpenAI has announced the expansion of its ChatGPT's advanced voice mode feature to the web version, allowing users to interact with the AI chatbot directly in the browser. The launch of the web version marks the continuation of the advanced voice mode feature first introduced in the iOS and Android applications. The new feature will initially be available to paid users of ChatGPT, including Plus, Enterprise, Teams, and Edu subscribers.

The Tongyi Qianwen team recently announced the open sourcing of their latest Qwen2.5-Coder full series, aimed at promoting the development of Open Code LLMs. Qwen2.5-Coder has garnered attention for its power, diversity, and practicality. The Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct model has achieved SOTA levels in coding capabilities, comparable to GPT-4o, demonstrating comprehensive abilities.

Recently, OpenAI launched an important update that introduces the 'Predicted Outputs' feature for the GPT-4o model. This innovative technology significantly enhances the model's response speed, achieving up to 5 times the original speed in specific scenarios, providing developers with a completely new efficiency experience. This feature, developed in collaboration with FactoryAI, has a core advantage of bypassing the process of repeated generation of known content. In practical applications, especially in updating blog posts and iterating on existing content.

Recently, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun stated that Autonomous Machine Intelligence (AMI) can genuinely assist people in their daily lives. Meta is working to enhance the reasoning capabilities of its Llama model, aiming to rival top models like GPT-4o. Meta's Vice President Manohar Paluri mentioned that they are exploring ways to enable the Llama model not only to 'plan' but also to assess decisions in real-time and adjust as conditions change.

According to media reports, Tan Xu, former Chief Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia, joined the startup Dark Side of the Moon in August, primarily responsible for developing end-to-end speech models. One important goal after Tan's joining is to create a speech experience similar to GPT-4o for the company. Dark Side of the Moon has not yet responded, but insiders have confirmed Tan's employment, and specific position details have not been finalized. Public information indicates that Tan Xu's research areas include deep learning, language/speech/music processing, and AI content generation, with publications in AI academic conferences.

Elon Musk's xAI has finally fulfilled its promise from August by officially launching the API interface for its flagship AI model, Grok. However, this long-awaited API version feels somewhat rushed and basic. Currently, the xAI API only offers a model named "grok-beta." In terms of pricing, input tokens are charged at $5 per million tokens (approximately 750,000 words), while output tokens are charged at $15 per million tokens.