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šŸ¤– ChatGPTā€™s Rapid Growth Game, Explained.

PLUS: AI Officially Passes The Turing Test

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In todayā€™s Daily Report:

  • šŸš€ChatGPTā€™s Rapid Growth Game, Explained.

  • šŸ“ŠAI Officially Passes The Turing Test

  • šŸ› Trending Tools

  • šŸ„ŖBrief Bites

  • šŸ’°Funding Frontlines

  • šŸ’¼Whoā€™s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

OPENAI

šŸš€ChatGPTā€™s Rapid Growth Game, Explained.

Image Source: Canvaā€™s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

ChatGPT has reportedly added 4.5 million paying subscribers on Plus, Pro, Team, and Enterprise Plans since the end of last year.

Key Details:
  • OpenAIā€™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 yearā€™s revenue to reach $12.7 billion.

  • ChatGPTā€™s new 4o Image Generation feature has boosted the conversational chatbotā€™s popularity overnight. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT gained over a million active users within an hour this week.

  • OpenAIā€™s surge in revenue, paired with ChatGPTā€™s boost in popularity, coincides with a new $40 billion Series F funding round that values the company at $300 billion.

Why Itā€™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 OpenAIā€™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 doesnā€™t expect to be Cash Flow Positive until 2029.

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AI RESEARCH

šŸ“ŠAI Officially Passes The Turing Test

Image Source: Department of Cognitive Science (ā€œCogSciā€) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)/ā€œLarge Language Models (LLMs) pass The Turing Test!ā€/Screenshot

Researchers in the Department of Cognitive Science (ā€œCogSciā€) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) evaluated four AI Systems using British mathematician Alan Turingā€™s famous test, which explores whether machines can think.

Key Details:
  • The Turing Test was developed in 1950 to measure a machineā€™s ability to exhibit human-like intelligence. Itā€™s comprised of three participants:

    1. A Computer

    2. A Human Foil

    3. 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, itā€™s considered an intelligent, thinking entity.

  • OpenAIā€™s GPT-4.5 successfully fooled Human Interrogators 73% of the time, while Metaā€™s Llama 3.1 405B successfully fooled Human Interrogators 56% of the time.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • ā€œWe werenā€™t even close to passing it in 2021. Then, OpenAIā€™s ChatGPT passed it,ā€ explained Former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel. ā€œThe Turing Test was the Holy Grail of AI Research for the previous 60 years.ā€

  • British neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson was an outspoken critic of The Turing Test, insisting that assessing a machineā€™s ability to mimic human conversation was insufficient because it doesnā€™t measure creative expression and self-awareness. He famously said that machines must be able to ā€œwrite a Sonnet, and it feels significant.ā€

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šŸ„ŖBRIEF BITES

OpenAI published ā€œPaperBench,ā€ 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 NVIDIAā€™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 ā€œHypernova,ā€ 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.

šŸ’°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.

šŸ’¼WHOā€™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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