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ChatGPT goes social

ChatGPT goes social

❌ Nvidia's chip gets blocked

Martin Crowley, Liam Lawson & Amanda Greenwood
April 16, 2025

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Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. 📲 ChatGPT goes social
• 2. 🔐 Prevent spammers and fraudsters with Incogni
• 3. ❌ Nvidia gets blocked
• 4. 🗣️ Claude finds its voice
• 5. 💼 Become an AI consultant from Innovating with AI
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools
• 7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications
• 8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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Altman's Social Media Revolution

🚨 Our Report

OpenAI is developing an X-like social network with an internal prototype that focuses on ChatGPT's image generation capabilities and includes a social feed, according to multiple sources familiar with the project.

🔓 Key Points

The project is in early stages with CEO Sam Altman actively seeking external feedback on a prototype that focuses on integrating ChatGPT's image generation features into a social feed format.
OpenAI's move comes after Altman's public exchange with Elon Musk in February, where he countered Musk's $97.4B buyout offer with a joke about purchasing Twitter for $9.74B.
The platform aims to leverage AI to help users create better content, inspired partly by Grok's viral tweet generation on X, though it's unclear whether it will be a standalone app or integrated into ChatGPT.

🔐 Relevance

This move positions OpenAI to compete directly with both X and Meta in the social media space, while simultaneously giving the company use of its own unique, real-time user data—something X and Meta already leverage to train their AI models. The development signals OpenAI's strategic expansion beyond pure AI development into consumer-facing products that could generate both engagement and valuable training data, potentially creating a virtuous cycle for improving their models while building a direct relationship with users.

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🚨 Our Report

The U.S. government has imposed new export controls on Nvidia's H20 AI chips to China, requiring licensing for all future exports. This unexpected move comes just days after speculation that Nvidia had avoided such restrictions through diplomatic efforts. The company now faces a significant impact and must adjust its China strategy.

🔓 Key Points

On April 15, 2025, Nvidia disclosed in a filing that the US government will require licenses to export H20 AI chips to China "indefinitely," specifically citing "risk that the [H20] may be used in [...] a supercomputer in China."
Nvidia's stock dropped approximately 6% in extended trading following the announcement, and the company expects to incur $5.5B in charges for its fiscal Q1 2026, which ends April 27.
The H20 was reportedly used to train models from China-based AI startup DeepSeek, including the R1 "reasoning" model that disrupted the US AI market in January, prompting multiple government officials to call for stronger export controls.

🔐 Relevance

This development marks a significant escalation in U.S.-China tech tensions and will reshape the global AI chip landscape. For businesses and developers, it signals tighter controls on AI hardware and potential supply chain disruptions. The move could accelerate the development of domestic chip alternatives in China while pushing U.S. companies to strengthen domestic manufacturing.

NVIDIA has bought over 1M square feet of space to manufacture AI chips and build AI infrastructure in the US and will ramp up chip production at its existing plants (in Dallas and Houston) over 15 months.
This comes as NVIDIA’s most advanced AI chip—H20—managed to swerve export restrictions to China, thanks to a deal made with President Trump to pour capital into US-based AI infrastructure.
NVIDIA believes its chip manufacturing initiatives will boost economic activity for decades, even though Chinese trade restrictions are preventing the US from getting the raw materials needed to make AI chips.

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PODCASTS

Is Claude falling behind in the AI race?

In this episode of the Everyday AI, Jordan breaks down the brewing battle at the top of the AI world—and why Anthropic’s Claude might be losing its edge. With OpenAI and Google accelerating ahead, the question isn't just “what happened to Claude?” but “can it catch up?”