Last May, 30 of the Western world’s leading mathematicians gathered in Berkeley, Cal. Their purpose: to give a math test to OpenAI’s o4-mini AI.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Aug 12 2025
CHINA PROPOSES GLOBAL ORGANIZATION TO GUIDE AI
At its World Artificial Intelligence Conference in late July, China said it wanted to help create a worldwide organization to guide AI’s development, regulate it, and foster global cooperation in the AI revolution, officials said.
OPENAI OPENS NEW MODELS TO DEVELOPERS
OpenAI has released its first two “open-weight” AIs, breaking with the subscription model it has relied on since its inception.
STARGATE INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES SECOND PROJECT OUTSIDE OF THE U.S.
The Stargate project will build its second AI data center outside the U.S. in Norway, OpenAI announced last week. Plans for a center in the United Arab Emirates were unveiled previously.
OPENAI PLANS A SHARE SALE THAT VALUES THE COMPANY AT $500 BILLION
OpenAI has begun discussions about a sale of billions of dollars worth of stock to present and previous employees that would value the company at $500 billion, a two-thirds increase to the $300 billion value set in its funding round last March.
MAKE YOUR OWN TV SERIES WITH SHOWRUNNER AI
San Francisco startup Fable, with some of Amazon’s money in its pocket, has unveiled Showrunner, an AI that lets people make their own animated TV or streaming shows by typing a few words.




