Here’s What OpenAI Is Releasing This Week…

OpenAI is about to release several latest models this week, including GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4.1 nano, o4-mini, and the total o3. The updates on the model cards confirm that OpenAI is pushing forward with its release schedule, while GPT-5 can be on the horizon.

Nevertheless, OpenAI has reduced the time and resources allocated to AI safety testing. The Financial Times reported that staff chargeable for evaluating risks and performance now have only days to conduct assessments, a pointy decline from previous practices.

The corporate can be rolling out A-SWE, an autonomous AI agent built for software engineering tasks like debugging and documentation. Yet past issues with similar tools solid doubt on its reliability. Meanwhile, OpenAI will soon require verified government-issued IDs from organizations to access advanced models via API, limiting each verification to once every 90 days.

Meanwhile, 12 former staffers have filed an amicus temporary opposing the corporate’s for-profit transition. The case, which challenges the conversion’s legality, will proceed to trial in spring 2026. Read more.

Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk’s call to “delete all IP law” reflects a broader clash between tech elites and traditional content regimes, as AI systems increasingly depend on copyrighted and user-generated data. Critics argue this stance disregards creators’ rights, while legal experts warn it erodes distinctions between human and machine output.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission can be investigating platform 𝕏 for using European users’ public posts to coach xAI’s Grok, potentially breaching GDPR. Meanwhile, xAI has modified Grok’s responses to political prompts—removing direct references to Musk and Trump in misinformation queries and recasting controversial topics as matters of opinion.

Despite surrounding controversies, Grok-3 and Grok-3 mini posted strong ends in independent evaluations by Epoch AI. Grok-3, a non-reasoning model, topped the GPQA Diamond benchmark at 76%, outperforming GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and DeepSeek-R1. Grok-3 mini, with reasoning capabilities, led on OTIS Mock AIME with a 78% rating and performed well on MATH Level 5 and the expert-tier FrontierMath. Read more.

Google’s AI rollout is accelerating—with polish, precision, and a couple of blind spots. Veo 2, its latest video generation model, is now available via AI Studio within the US, generating 8-second, 720p clips at 24 fps for $0.35 per second. It interprets each text and sketches, offering fluid, cinematic output that early testers say borders on production-grade. Japan Airlines is already using Veo 2 alongside Gemini to supply 60-second in-flight destination movies, scripted with region-specific flair and assembled in under 15 hours using Pencil Pro’s RAG pipelines.

But while the outputs are smooth, governance is fraying. Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s top-tier model, was released with out a mandatory safety report—raising questions on the widening gap between technical showmanship and responsible disclosure. Read more.