Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that “set new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities”. The new reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking, was the most…
The global AI race has just turned up the heat, and yet again, China is making the move. A new challenger has entered the arena, Moonshot’s Kimi K2 Thinking, a model so advanced that its creators say it’s outsmarted OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 on several high-profile benchmarks. Yes, the same GPT-5 that…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t feel comfortable with how people are consulting ChatGPT on major life decisions. “A lot of people effectively use ChatGPT as a sort of therapist or life coach, even if they wouldn’t describe it that way,” Altman wrote on X on Sunday. “I can imagine a future where a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has bluntly responded to recent attacks from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying he doesn’t spend much time thinking about the xAI founder. Speaking in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Altman dismissed Musk’s repeated criticisms of OpenAI and its newly launched GPT-5 model.ChatGPT creator OpenAI recently unveiled its latest AI model…
In a statement that has reignited tensions in the AI industry, Elon Musk claimed that OpenAI is poised to “eat Microsoft alive,” just as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced full integration of GPT-5 across Microsoft’s ecosystem. The comment came shortly after OpenAI unveiled its most advanced model yet, GPT-5, which Nadella hailed as a breakthrough…
Matthias Bastian Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers. Microsoft is bringing OpenAI’s GPT-5 to its entire Copilot lineup on Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. In Microsoft 365 Copilot, licensed users can use GPT-5 for more advanced tasks. The Microsoft Copilot…