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ChatGPT users dismayed as OpenAI pulls popular models GPT-4o, o3 and more — enterprise API remains (for now)

August 8, 2025
After announcing the release of its newest flagship model family, GPT-5, OpenAI said the model will power all of ChatGPT, and that it will sunset the existing models in the chat platform.  OpenAI, through a spokesperson, told VentureBeat that GPT-5 “will replace all other models in ChatGPT, so users don’t have to pick depending on each task, which takes effect once you have access to…
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The initial reactions to OpenAI’s landmark open source gpt-oss models are highly varied and mixed

August 7, 2025
OpenAI’s long-awaited return to the “open” of its namesake occurred yesterday with the release of two new large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B. But despite achieving technical benchmarks on par with OpenAI’s other powerful proprietary AI model offerings, the broader AI developer and user community’s initial response has so far been all over the map. If this release…
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Google releases Olympiad medal-winning Gemini 2.5 ‘Deep Think’ AI publicly — but there’s a catch…

August 5, 2025
Google has officially launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a new variation of its AI model engineered for deeper reasoning and complex problem-solving, which made headlines last month for winning a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) — the first time an AI model achieved the feat. However, this is unfortunately not the identical gold medal-winning model. It is in fact, a less…
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Why open-source AI became an American national priority

August 4, 2025
When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House has elevated what was once a highly technical topic into an urgent national concern — and a key strategy to winning the AI race against China. China’s emphasis on open source, also…
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