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Announced August 27, the third market after the US in February and Europe earlier this month, launching with 50 brands and agency partners WPP and Omnicom, with an ad manager arriving next month setting a minimum daily campaign budget of ₹725 (TechCrunch). India carries more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users and the sub-$5 Go plan was given away free for a year there. This is the test of whether a giveaway market can be monetized ahead of an IPO, and a $7.60 floor says OpenAI wants long-tail advertisers, not just brands.
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TechCrunch reported August 8 that OpenAI acquired NextSlide, which turned prompts, notes, documents, or research into polished editable presentations. Terms undisclosed. Founder Ahmed Beshry, who previously co-founded Caper AI (acquired by Instacart in 2021), said the team is...
250,000 visitors, 40+ CEOs, and 20 heads of state descended on New Delhi for the first Global South AI summit. The numbers are staggering: Pichai announced $15B in Google investment over 5 years and India's largest AI facility outside the US; Altman revealed India has 100M wee...
The Financial Times reported over the weekend that OpenAI dissolved the unit assessing whether frontier models posed serious bio, cyber and rogue-system risks, distributing individual framework domains to existing teams (The Verge). OpenAI framed it as a streamlining process a...
Preview as of August 11, bundling ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex, built for Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, Fedora 43/44 on x64 and ARM64, with an installer that registers an OpenAI repo so updates flow through apt (TechCrunch). Modest community heat (109 upvotes on r/sing...
Two data points that tell the same story. First, Value Add Pulse counts four frontier launches in 30 days: Gemini 3.5 Pro, Grok 5, Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, plus open-weight GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7. The model-layer moat compressed from quarters to weeks. Second, TechCrun...
OpenAI confirmed it's folding agents, Codex, image generation, and third-party apps (Canva and Booking.com live, Expedia, Figma, Spotify, Coursera, Zillow piloting) into ChatGPT, targeting all 900M weekly users and explicitly pitched to close the gap with Anthropic among busin...
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