🗞 OpenAI Hits 400M Users, Global Agent Rollout, and Chinese Tool Ban

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI's Growth Surge: 400M Users and New GPT Models on Horizon

• Global Expansion: OpenAI's Operator Agent Launches in Eight Countries

• Security Crackdown: OpenAI Blocks Chinese Surveillance Tool Development

• xAI's New Offering: SuperGrok Launch and Free Grok 3 Trial Period

• DeepSeek's Open Initiative: Five Code Repositories Set for Public Release

• Other news you might find interesting

🚀 OpenAI reaches new milestone with 400M weekly active users, while announcing GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 developments

• Enterprise adoption doubles since September 2024, with 2 million businesses now using ChatGPT at work, including Morgan Stanley, Uber, and T-Mobile.

• Company secures first federal contract with USAID and establishes $3B annual investment partnership with SoftBank in Japan.

• Upcoming GPT-5 will merge GPT and o-series models into unified system, offering unlimited access to free users.

🔮 OpenAI expands its autonomous AI agent "Operator" to multiple countries, marking a significant advancement in AI task automation

• ChatGPT Pro users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the UK now have access, while Europe awaits.

• Operator runs on Computer-Using Agent (CUA) with GPT-4o vision capabilities and can handle complex online tasks autonomously.

• OpenAI's weekly active users exceed 400 million, showing strong market traction.

🚫 OpenAI bans Chinese accounts found developing surveillance tools to monitor anti-China protests in Western countries

• Company discovered accounts using ChatGPT to develop "Qianyue Overseas Public Opinion AI Assistant" for tracking online discussions about human rights and anti-China topics.

• Tool was designed to monitor social media platforms like X, Facebook, and Instagram, sending surveillance reports to Chinese authorities and embassy staff.

• This follows OpenAI's recent concerns about DeepSeek's activities, including accusations of model distillation and potential data theft from US companies.

🎯 xAI introduces SuperGrok subscription at $30/month while temporarily offering Grok 3 for free to attract new users

• New standalone SuperGrok subscription targets non-X Premium users, providing access to both website and app features.

• Grok 3's context window capabilities remain unclear, with reports varying between 128k and 1 million tokens.

• Company promoting X Premium Plus as comprehensive package while offering temporary free access to Grok 3.

🌟 Chinese AI lab DeepSeek announces plans to open-source five production-tested code repositories, influencing industry transparency standards

• Company will release five battle-tested code repositories during next week's "open source week" event.

• DeepSeek's open-source initiatives have gained attention from industry leader OpenAI, with CEO Sam Altman acknowledging their technological progress.

• Initiative aims to accelerate collective innovation through community-driven development.

🖨 More news you might find interesting:

• Microsoft unveils Magma, a groundbreaking AI model that can control both software interfaces and robotic systems.

• Google extends Gemini's document analysis feature to free users, enabling PDF and document processing previously limited to paid subscribers.

• Major AI infrastructure project stalls due to GPU shortage and funding challenges, Arista Networks reveals.

• Chinese AI firms remain optimistic about DeepSeek's success despite international restrictions and scrutiny.

• Together AI secures $305M Series B funding as demand for AI infrastructure surges, particularly driven by DeepSeek-R1 adoption.

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