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ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, although India has become one of the fastest-growing markets for ChatGPT, OpenAI still faces challenges in monetization locally. Data shows that since 2023, Indian users have spent only about $8 million through in-app purchases, far less than the $330 million spent by users in the United States. High subscription fees ($20/month) and the lack of local pricing are considered the main reasons. OpenAI is seeking to partner with Indian telecom giant Jio to expand coverage and achieve its "billion users" vision.

ChainCatcher news, according to CNBC, artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced the completion of a $40 billion financing round, setting a record for the largest financing ever for a private tech company. This round of financing values OpenAI at $300 billion (including the new capital).SoftBank led the investment with $30 billion, with other investors including core investor Microsoft as well as Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive. OpenAI plans to allocate about $18 billion for the Stargate project in collaboration with SoftBank and Oracle. Notably, if OpenAI fails to transition to a profit-making entity by December 31, 2025, the financing amount may be reduced by $10 billion. Currently, ChatGPT has reached 500 million weekly active users, and OpenAI expects revenue to grow to $12.7 billion by the end of 2025.

According to ChainCatcher news, as reported by Jinshi, based on data from the AI analysis platform aitools.xyz, DeepSeek has become the fastest-growing AI tool in the world, with its monthly new website visits surpassing OpenAI's ChatGPT.The report states that DeepSeek's visits reached 525 million in February 2025, exceeding ChatGPT's 500 million. Currently, DeepSeek holds a market share of 6.58%, ranking just behind ChatGPT and Canva, which account for 43.16% and 8.27% respectively.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized verifiable AI agent platform Recall officially launches the Surge Points Reward Program, encouraging users to earn rewards by participating in agent competitions, building communities, and learning about the AI agent ecosystem.In the Surge program, users can earn Fragments------Recall's native points by contributing to the success of the Recall network. Surge is the first community incentive program led by the newly established Recall Foundation, and it has officially launched today with the first batch of challenge tasks.Recall is a project that builds a network for AI agents to store, share, and trade knowledge on-chain. It enables agents to prove data and profit from it, using blockchain to record transactions and strategies. Recall collaborates with Filecoin for decentralized storage.

ChainCatcher news, the San Francisco-based startup Yutori has raised $15 million in funding to develop an AI personal assistant.This round of financing was announced on March 27, 2025, led by Rob Toews of Radical Ventures, with participation from Felicis, AI expert Fei-Fei Li, and Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean.

ChainCatcher news, focusing on artificial intelligence cloud service company CoreWeave successfully completed its initial public offering (IPO), raising $1.5 billion at a price of $40 per share, with the company's valuation reaching approximately $23 billion. Due to a sluggish stock market, the company reduced the IPO size from the initially planned 49 million shares (priced at $47-55 per share) to 37.5 million shares.AI giant Nvidia, as an investor in CoreWeave, subscribed for $250 million worth of shares in this IPO, strengthening its stake in the AI cloud service company. CoreWeave has deep ties with Bitcoin mining company CoreScientific, having previously reached a multi-billion dollar partnership agreement to enhance CoreScientific's AI capabilities. Notably, Nvidia's stock price has dropped 12% this year, reflecting the overall weakness in the AI sector.

ChainCatcher message, OpenAI founder Sam Altman stated that it is very interesting to see people enjoy using the (generated) image feature in chats. However, our GPUs are overloaded, and while we work to improve efficiency, we will temporarily introduce some rate limits on the image generation feature of ChatGPT.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement from OpenAI, the Operator feature is now fully available to Pro users in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland.

ChainCatcher news, according to Zhitong Finance, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has announced that it has officially completed a $3.5 billion financing round, with the company's valuation reaching $61.5 billion. This round of financing was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which invested $1 billion, with other investors including General Catalyst, Jane Street, and Fidelity Management & Research Company. Additionally, existing investors such as Menlo Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in this round of financing.Anthropic's valuation has soared, partly due to the rapid expansion of the company's business. According to insiders, by the end of 2023, the company's annual revenue run rate is approximately $1 billion, but it has grown by 30% so far this year. However, Anthropic has not commented on specific revenue figures. The new financing will be used to develop next-generation AI models, expand computing capabilities, enhance AI safety research, and drive expansion into Asian and European markets. Last week, Anthropic launched a more advanced AI model called Sonnet and released a new type of AI agent capable of automating software programming tasks. This move further demonstrates its cutting-edge innovation capabilities in AI research and development.

ChainCatcher news, according to an announcement from OpenAI, Sora is now available to Plus and Pro users in the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland, allowing users in these regions to experience the capabilities of the video generation model.

ChainCatcher news, according to DeepSeek's announcement, on the fifth day of Open Source Week, its Fire-Flyer file system (3FS) has officially been open-sourced. As a high-performance parallel file system, 3FS can fully utilize modern SSDs and RDMA networks to achieve high-speed data access, enhancing the efficiency of AI model training and inference.Key performance indicators of 3FS:Achieved a total read throughput of 6.6 TiB/s in a 180-node clusterReached a throughput of 3.66 TiB/min in a 25-node GraySort benchmark testSingle-node KVCache query peak throughput exceeds 40+ GiB/s3FS adopts a separated architecture, supporting data preprocessing, dataset loading, checkpoint storage/recovery, embedded vector search, and inference KVCache queries, with strong consistency semantics. DeepSeek also launched the Smallpond data processing framework to further optimize 3FS's data management capabilities.

ChainCatcher news, OpenAI product manager Nikunj Handa stated in the OpenAI developer community that GPT-4.5 has been integrated into the API service. He mentioned that we are evaluating whether to continue offering it in the API long-term, as we need to balance supporting current features with building future models.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Deepseek announced the open-source optimization of parallel strategies on the fourth day of Open Source Week, including DualPipe------a bidirectional pipeline parallel algorithm for computing-communication overlap in V3/R1 training; EPLB------an expert parallel load balancer for V3/R1; and analysis of computing-communication overlap in V3/R1.

ChainCatcher news, the Hong Kong SAR government announced a funding of 1 billion HKD to establish an artificial intelligence research institute.