This week’s Eureka podcast highlights another milestone for OpenAI, as its ChatGPT platform reaches a milestone of 400 million weekly active users while setting the stage for the launch of GPT-4.5 and GPT-5. Meanwhile, agentic AI is rapidly transforming the retail sector as autonomous AI agents improve efficiency and decision-making in merchandising, category management, and supply chain.
Additional highlights from the last week in AI news include:
- Microsoft had a busy week, announcing several innovations: Azure AI Foundry Labs, a platform designed to merge AI research with practical applications; Majorana 1, a groundbreaking quantum chip; and Muse, an AI model for understanding 3D environments.
- Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet model debuts on Amazon Bedrock, enhancing coding and reasoning capabilities.
- Apple invests $500 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, including a new AI server facility
- Despite controversies, xAI’s release of Grok 3 downloads increased tenfold, and daily active users grew 260%
- Mistral’s Le Chat surpasses 1M users in just two weeks as France’s leading free iOS app
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