The general idea behind the mode is that it can ask Socratic questions to assess your knowledge levels and guide you step by step through problems — to help you learn instead of just giving you a quick fix.
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After saying at the model launch that they were still working on European access, less than a week later, OpenAI sends this tweet:
Pro users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, thanks for your patience — ChatGPT agent is now fully rolled out to you.
And the rollout to Plus users globally has started and will continue over the next few days.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 23, 2025
That clearly says the agent is coming to Pro Users in the «European Economic Area and Switzerland.»
It also says Plus users — globally — should have access over the next few days.
So if you happen to be in Europe, are a Pro or Plus subscriber, you should get access to the model shortly.
UPDATE 25/7/25: OpenAI reports that the rollout is complete. You can find it in the feature bar at the bottom of the app window by clicking on the “Agent” icon.
Their new 4.5 GW data center in Abilene, Texas, built in cooperation with Oracle, is indeed part of the Stargate project, they say. As a reply to the report, they are showing operations are already starting.
Continue reading “Stargate was not dead: OpenAI announces 4.5 GW data center in Texas”
But here’s the truth: None of these numbers are easy to verify — and each company counts differently.
Continue reading “So, who really has the most GPUs in the AI race?”
OpenAI says it was achieved with «our latest experimental reasoning LLM:»
Continue reading “OpenAI wins Math Olympiad gold, a major milestone for AI development”
The ChatGPT Agent should be available in the model selector at the bottom of the ChatGPT window in the app for Pro, Plus and Teams users as of Thursday, but rollout will be «over the next few days,» or over «the coming weeks» for Enterprise and Education users.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches ChatGPT Agent mode, for tasks both easy and tough”
OpenAI is pushing a livestream tonight/early morning at 10am PST/1900 CET, with a tweet saying:
ChatGPT 🤝 Deep research 🤝 Operator
Livestream in 3 hours.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 17, 2025
Some expect the company to launch Odyssey — a rumored blend of deep research, agentic capabilities, and access to your Drive files, and they seem on the money. If true, it could revolutionize coding and research workflows.
Others are fixated on the cursor in the teaser, which circles through five points — surely that must mean ChatGPT-5? Meanwhile, another camp is betting on the long-awaited OpenAI browser, complete with built-in agents.
Speculation is running hot. The only way to know for sure? Tune in later — or tune out and catch the fallout in the news.
Here’s the teaser posted last night, you can likely catch it on Youtube, and keep an eye on OpenAIs x.com account.
UPDATE: it was ChatGPT Agent. The news is here.
OpenAI had previously planned for June release, and then postponed it to «later this summer,» claiming great progress and that the team was «excited» about the new model.
Very good, or just recycled o-series?
It was supposed to be a «very good model,» but «our research team did something unexpected and quite amazing,» @sama said on June 11.
Continue reading “OpenAI gets hit with open-weights reality, delays model indefinitely”
The deal will see Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and a small team join Google’s DeepMind division.
Also licensing key tech
Further, Google will invest $2.4 billion in a non-exclusive deal to license Windsurf’s technology, reports Reuters, among others.
OpenAI had been in long-winding talks to buy the company, in its biggest deal yet, and many said it was just around the corner, as late as in May, 2025.
Continue reading “Google hires top execs, team from Windsurf — upending OpenAIs deal”
Now, Reuters is reporting that it’s just around the corner.
Continue reading “Reuters: OpenAI to launch Chromium-based web browser «within weeks»”
The program will begin right away with virtual, online training for all 1.8 million members of the union, and in New York City with a «three-day training session, including six hours of AI-focused material that highlighted practical, hands-on ways to marry the emerging technology with established pedagogy.»
Already used by a fourth of students
According to the latest data, from February 2025, 79% of teens said they had heard about ChatGPT, while 26% admitted to using it in schoolwork — and there are a plethora of other tools available.
Continue reading “With help from top AI labs, American teachers to get better, free training”
This comes hot on the heels of several months or years of what Zuckerberg deemed lackluster performance from the Llama team, before he decided to get some seasoned pros in.
The new team is headed up Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman from Scale AI and Github, respectively.
They will be joined by an 11-man team that will spearhead Metas future AI efforts, that reads like a who’s who of significant AI efforts over the last couple of years from Anthropic, OpenAI and even Google’s DeepMind:
Continue reading “Meta announces completion of «Superintelligence Labs»”
They have instead asked Anthropic and OpenAI to train some of their models on their Private Cloud Compute servers.
The Samsung model
This mirrors Samsung’s approach to integrating Large Language Models in its Galaxy phones, where they have some in-house, lower level AI doing the legwork and passing the rest off to Google’s Gemini, writes Engadget.
According to Bloomberg, Apple has recently focused on Anthropic as the most promising LLM, being more compatible with Apple servers and offering the best experience.
Continue reading “Apple might be dropping own AI, integrating Anthropic or OpenAI instead”
Sam Altman recently said that Meta was offering as much as $100 million in signing bonuses, but none of his best researchers had fled — at the time.
Continue reading “OpenAI scrambling to «recalibrate comp» as Meta poaches top talent”
It is clear now that the device won’t be an in-ear device or some kind of glasses.
Continue reading “OpenAI’s hardware device is a year out, won’t be a wearable”