Releases, papers, SOTA benchmarks
GPT-5.x revenue curves and high-value scenarios highlight the reality of inference costs, with viral tales of 'burning dozens of dollars per prompt' underscoring the expense.
Media reports highlight ChatGPT's ad experiments driven by financial pressure, sparking user experience controversies.
GPT-5.2 proves number theory conjecture: 2025–2026 AI industry extension topic (batch2 archived, complementary to existing timeline).
Meituan Instashopping's AIGC marketing case: an extension of the 2025-2026 AI industry agenda (batch 2 archived, complementing the main timeline).
A wave of core researcher departures at OpenAI highlights the exodus of key talent in reasoning, intensifying competition for AI expertise.
You Yang's latest article explores AI growth bottlenecks and 2025–2026 industry extensions, complementing existing timelines.
Year-end review: The narrative of narrowing China-US AI gaps. Multiple consultancies and open-source benchmarks release comparative analyses.
OpenAI publishes its roadmap, outlining milestones like autonomous AI researchers. The plan draws mixed reactions, with praise for ambition and skepticism over feasibility.
OpenAI reveals GPT-5's thinking mechanism combining RL and pre-training, a key 2025–2026 AI industry topic complementing existing timelines.
Alibaba's Tongyi Qwen releases a major suite update, including perfect-score math models and dense multi-modal/code model launches, boosting its international open-source influence.