Author HubMatthias Bastian
ChatGPT is set to reach 700 million weekly users this week, according to Nick Turley, App Product Manager at OpenAI. That's up from 500 million at the end of March and four times higher than last year. In addition, OpenAI now counts 5 million paying business users, up from 3 million in June, as more enterprises and educators turn to AI tools. The company recently raised $8.3 million in funding and is preparing to launch GPT-5.
Google's AI infrastructure is under strain as demand for its latest models increases. Product manager Logan Kilpatrick responded to complaints about the limited availability of Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think, explaining, "the release is constrained because this is a big model and takes a boat load of compute to run, when our TPU's are already burning to keep up with massive growth on Veo, Gemini 2.5 pro, AI mode rollout to hundreds of millions, etc."
Kilpatrick addressed criticism after users pointed out that, despite strong benchmark scores, Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think is difficult to use to use due to access restrictions. Even Ultra subscribers can only make a handful of requests per day as the system struggles to keep up with demand.
Wan2.2 A14B now tops the rankings for open source video models, according to Artificial Analysis. It ranks seventh for text-to-video and fourteenth for image-to-video, with the lower placement in the latter likely due to its 16 frames per second output compared to 24 fps in some competitors. Among open models, Wan2.2 A14B leads the field, but it still trails behind closed models like Veo 3 and Seedance 1.0 in overall performance. Pricing, however, is often much lower depending on the provider.
