April 14, at the recently held TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, "The emergence of DeepSeek has not affected the growth of the GPT, and better open source models will be introduced." Market research organization App Figures recently reported that in terms of global non-game app downloads in March 2025, ChatGPT overwhelmed Instagram and TikTok with 46 million times, becoming the world's most downloaded (only counting Apple App Store...

Feb. 28, 2012 - OpenAI CEO Michael Altman said today that the company had to roll out its latest GPT-4.5 model in stages due to a "shortage of GPU resources. In a post on the X platform, Altman noted that GPT-4.5 is a "huge" and "expensive" model, requiring tens of thousands of additional GPUs to make it available to more ChatGPT users. GPT-4.5 will be available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers first, followed by ChatGPT Plus subscribers next week...

Feb. 28 - CNBC reported on Feb. 27 that Meta plans to launch a standalone AI app in Q2 this year as part of Zuckerberg's plan to overtake OpenAI and Google by the end of the year. Unlike rival AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, Meta AI is currently limited to use through its website and its apps like Facebook and WhatsApp. While Meta's large user base can access these apps through...

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said today on social media platform X that the company has updated ChatGPT 4o, which he said has become "the best search product on the web. In the post, Altman noted that ChatGPT 4o has performed "pretty well" and is "going to get even better soon." He also retweeted posts praising the chatbot's "incredibly good" and "human-like" writing skills. According to 1AI, the GPT-4o model (where "o...