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In today’s Daily Report:
🚀ChatGPT’s Rapid Growth Game, Explained.
📊AI Officially Passes The Turing Test
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
🚀ChatGPT’s Rapid Growth Game, Explained.
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ChatGPT has reportedly added 4.5 million paying subscribers on Plus, Pro, Team, and Enterprise Plans since the end of last year.
Key Details:
OpenAI’s monthly revenue has surged 30% in the past three months to approximately $415 million, with the new $200 per month ChatGPT Pro Plan leading the surge. OpenAI expects this year’s revenue to reach $12.7 billion.
ChatGPT’s new 4o Image Generation feature has boosted the conversational chatbot’s popularity overnight. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT gained over a million active users within an hour this week.
OpenAI’s surge in revenue, paired with ChatGPT’s boost in popularity, coincides with a new $40 billion Series F funding round that values the company at $300 billion.
Why It’s Important:
So, why does OpenAI need all of this money after it just raised a $6.6 billion Series E funding round in 2024? Because OpenAI’s burning through cash. It reportedly cost $9 billion to operate OpenAI last year, with expenditures like training advanced AI models accounting for up to $5 billion in losses.
OpenAI is losing money on ChatGTP Pro Plans and is projected to burn over $26 billion in 2025 for a loss of $14.4 billion. OpenAI doesn’t expect to be Cash Flow Positive until 2029.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
Will OpenAI be Cash Flow Positive by 2029?
AI RESEARCH
📊AI Officially Passes The Turing Test
Image Source: Department of Cognitive Science (“CogSci”) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)/“Large Language Models (LLMs) pass The Turing Test!”/Screenshot
Researchers in the Department of Cognitive Science (“CogSci”) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) evaluated four AI Systems using British mathematician Alan Turing’s famous test, which explores whether machines can think.
Key Details:
The Turing Test was developed in 1950 to measure a machine’s ability to exhibit human-like intelligence. It’s comprised of three participants:
A Computer
A Human Foil
A Human Interrogator
The Human Interrogator attempts to determine which is the Computer and the Human Foil by asking a series of questions via a keyboard. If the Computer can consistently fool the Human Interrogator, it’s considered an intelligent, thinking entity.
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 successfully fooled Human Interrogators 73% of the time, while Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B successfully fooled Human Interrogators 56% of the time.
Why It’s Important:
“We weren’t even close to passing it in 2021. Then, OpenAI’s ChatGPT passed it,” explained Former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel. “The Turing Test was the Holy Grail of AI Research for the previous 60 years.”
British neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson was an outspoken critic of The Turing Test, insisting that assessing a machine’s ability to mimic human conversation was insufficient because it doesn’t measure creative expression and self-awareness. He famously said that machines must be able to “write a Sonnet, and it feels significant.”
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🥪BRIEF BITES
OpenAI published “PaperBench,” a new benchmark that evaluates the ability of AI Agents to reproduce State-of-the-Art (SOTA) AI research.
Chinese Tech Giants ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba Group have collectively spent over $16 billion on NVIDIA’s new H20 Data Center GPUs to get ahead of U.S. Export Controls.
Google just appointed Josh Woodward, who currently Leads Google Labs and oversaw the launch of NotebookLM, as the new Head of Consumer AI Apps to shape the next era of Gemini Assistant.
Meta plans to launch “Hypernova,” smart glasses equipped with a Neural Wristband that uses ElectroMyoGraphy (EMG) to interpret the electrical signals produced by muscles to translate hand movements into digital commands.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
Actively AI raises a $22.5M Funding Round to deploy Sales Superintelligence.
Unframe secures a $50M Funding Round to transform Enterprise AI Deployment.
Runway lands a $308M Series D to continue developing GenAI tools that help humans generate short films.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Peraton (Santa Clara, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025
BioCatch (London, UK): Threat Analyst, EMEA, Entry-Level
Descript (San Francisco, CA): Data Scientist, Product Analytics, Mid-Level
Formation Bio (New York, NY): Lead Product Manager, Senior-Level
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