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The past month has been especially bruising for OpenAI. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has raided the company for some of its top AI talent, luring away roughly a dozen elite researchers with promises of big money, greater autonomy, and a shared mission to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

April 17, 2025: OpenAI has released o3 and 04-mini, two reasoning AI models designed to be extra good at programming, math, and science and that can use images to “think,” according to Engadget, This means that users can upload sketches or diagrams, for example, and even if they are of low quality, o3 and 04-mini will understand what is meant.

The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.

The new training academy in Manhattan will be geared toward training educators in an effort to harness AI technology in the classroom.

There are no bargains in artificial intelligence. Investors just gave $2 billion to Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, which is five months old, has no products and produces little revenue. There is value,

OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Anthropic are partnering with one of the largest teachers unions in the US to establish a new training center to help educators use artificial intelligence tools in classrooms across the country.