ChainCatcher news, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the politeness expressions like "please" and "thank you" used by users when interacting with ChatGPT are costing OpenAI millions of dollars in computing power and electricity. Engineer Carl Youngblood and others believe that "being polite to AI is a moral obligation, and rude daily interactions can lead to a degradation of interpersonal skills." EpochAI data analyst Josh You stated that due to improvements in model and hardware efficiency by 2025, each ChatGPT query consumes about 0.3 watt-hours, and polite expressions do not result in significant energy consumption.According to a Future survey conducted in December 2024, 67% of American users remain polite to AI assistants, with 55% believing it is the right behavior, and 12% doing so out of concern that AI might "hold a grudge." This group of users worries that once AI develops consciousness in the future, it will treat humans differently based on their historical interaction attitudes.

ChainCatcher news, multiple insiders have revealed that OpenAI is building a social network similar to X. Although the project is still in its early stages, there is already an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT image generation with social dynamics features.According to sources, CEO Altman has been privately soliciting feedback from external parties about the project. It is still unclear whether OpenAI plans to release this social network as a standalone application or integrate it into ChatGPT, which became the most downloaded app globally last month.It is understood that a social application would provide OpenAI with its unique real-time data, while X and Meta already possess such data to help train their AI models.

ChainCatcher news, Open AI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has raised $2 billion in its latest funding round, with its valuation skyrocketing to $3.2 billion. Founded just a year ago, the company currently has no products but has attracted the attention of well-known venture capital firms such as Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Andreessen Horowitz.SSI is dedicated to developing AI models that are more powerful than competitors like Open AI, Anthropic, and Google, with offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

ChainCatcher news, according to the update log released by OpenAI, starting from April 30, 2025, GPT-4 will be retired from ChatGPT and will be completely replaced by GPT-4o.GPT-4o is OpenAI's newer native multimodal model, which consistently outperforms GPT-4 in writing, coding, STEM, and other areas in head-to-head evaluations. Recent upgrades have further improved GPT-4o's instruction following, problem-solving, and conversational flow capabilities. GPT-4 will still remain available in the API.

According to ChainCatcher, as reported by Fortune, a dozen former employees of OpenAI submitted a legal brief on Friday in support of co-founder Musk's lawsuit aimed at maintaining the company's nonprofit status. Last year, Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing OpenAI of deviating from its founding mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity rather than for corporate profit. OpenAI and Altman have denied these allegations. In the documents submitted to the federal court on Friday, these former employees stated that stripping control from the nonprofit organization would "fundamentally contradict" the company's mission, as it would lose oversight of the for-profit development entity. These former employees, who held technical and leadership positions in the company, claimed that nonprofit oversight is crucial to the overall strategy of the company, and this structure also aids in recruitment, as many employees were motivated to join by the nonprofit's mission.

According to ChainCatcher news, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI has significantly reduced the time and resources allocated for testing the safety of its powerful AI models, raising concerns about the rushed launch of its technology without sufficient safeguards. Compared to a few months ago, staff and third-party teams have recently had only a few days to "evaluate" OpenAI's latest large language model.According to eight individuals familiar with OpenAI's testing process, the startup's testing has become less thorough, with insufficient time and resources dedicated to identifying and mitigating risks, as the $300 billion startup faces pressure to rapidly release new models and maintain a competitive edge.Insiders revealed that OpenAI has been aiming to release its new model o3 as early as next week, giving some testers less than a week for safety checks. Previously, OpenAI allowed several months for safety testing.

ChainCatcher news, on April 9 local time, the OpenAI Research Center in the United States filed a counterclaim against Musk, accusing him of harassment and requesting a federal judge to prevent Musk from taking any further illegal and unfair actions against OpenAI, including attacks through the media and malicious propaganda.Previously, Musk had sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing OpenAI of initially inviting Musk to fund a nonprofit AI research organization dedicated to benefiting humanity, but now focusing on profit. OpenAI emphasized that it remains committed to building the world's most capable nonprofit organization and disclosed that Musk had sought to merge OpenAI with Tesla and convert it into a for-profit entity, but withdrew after that attempt failed.

ChainCatcher news, OpenAI founder Sam Altman stated that the release of OpenAI's new version may be delayed, currently facing a computing power bottleneck, and services may sometimes slow down.Previously, Sam Altman mentioned on February 12 that he plans to launch GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 in the coming weeks or months. He also stated yesterday that a "new type of open-source weight language model" with reasoning capabilities will be released in the coming months. An open-source weight language model refers to a model that can be publicly used, downloaded, modified, or deployed. Although it is not as open as a fully open-source model, it represents a significant shift compared to the completely closed GPT-3 and GPT-4. OpenAI partially open-sourced the GPT-2 model in February 2019 and completed full open-sourcing in November of the same year.

ChainCatcher news, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the X platform that the image generation feature of ChatGPT is now fully available to all free users.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, OpenAI founder Sam Altman stated that a "new open-source weight language model" with reasoning capabilities will be released in the coming months, but he first hopes to gather feedback on "how to maximize its utility." An open-source weight language model refers to a model that can be publicly used, downloaded, modified, or deployed. While it is not as open as a fully open-source model, it represents a significant shift compared to the completely closed GPT-3 and GPT-4.OpenAI partially open-sourced the GPT-2 model in February 2019 and completed the full open-source release in November of the same year. On February 12 of this year, Sam Altman stated that the company plans to launch GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 in the coming weeks or months.

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.

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 news, according to market news, OpenAI is close to finalizing a $40 billion financing led by SoftBank.

ChainCatcher news, OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil stated in an interview that ChatGPT-5 will be released soon. I won't give you a specific time, but GPT-5 will appear shortly. We are already working seriously on this.In addition, he also mentioned that AI will achieve 99% code automation within this year, and it will not be delayed until 2027.

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 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 a report by Jinshi Recruitment The Information, OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 per month (approximately 145,000 RMB) for AI Agents that reach a doctoral level. These "doctoral-level" AI Agents are capable of handling complex tasks in the fields of academic research and software development. It is reported that OpenAI plans to launch three types of AI Agents, with monthly fees ranging from $2,000 to $20,000.