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Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while $20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Sri Muppidi / The Information:
Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while $20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M  —  For three years, OpenAI has generated most of its revenue from people paying $20 a month for subscriptions to ChatGPT.

US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model  —  The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model …

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year  —  Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech …

AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more (Jigar Thakkar/About Amazon)

Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon:
AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more  —  Amazon Quick brings a personal AI assistant to your desktop.  Build presentations, intelligent dashboards, and more.

Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because "it is not okay to steal a charity" and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts  —  Elon Musk testified Tuesday he's suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman …