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OpenAI in crisis?

OpenAI in crisis?

💘 Tinder flirting with AI?

Martin Crowley, Liam Lawson & Amanda Greenwood
April 02, 2025

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Wednesday’s AI Report

• 1. ⚠️ OpenAI in crisis?
• 2. ⚡ In partnership with Mode Mobile
• 3. 💘 Tinder flirting with AI?
• 4. 👀 OpenAI exposed by AI watchdog
• 5. 🎯 In partnership with Scoutie
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools
• 7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications
• 8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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OpenAI in crisis?

🚨 Our Report

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, has confirmed that, due to the popularity of its recently released ChatGPT image generator, OpenAI is facing serious capacity issues and as a result, users can expect delays in new product releases, including the highly anticipated GPT-5 (originally expected to arrive mid-to-late 2025).

🔓 Key Points

Altman reassured users that although staff are working hard to get things under control, they should expect new releases “to be delayed, stuff to break, and for service to be slow” as they deal with capacity challenges.
He also asked where he could acquire 100,000 AI chips from, “immediately,” indicating the sheer scale of the capacity issues OpenAI is currently facing and the pressing requirement to fix them.
Despite the warnings, Altman didn't give a timeline for when users can expect normal service to resume, but did express that the team worked late nights and through the weekend “to keep the service up.”

🔐 Relevance

The release of the new image generator and its capabilities sparked a frenzy of Japanese Studio Ghibli’s hand-drawn animation-inspired memes, which caused over 1M new users to subscribe to ChatGPT, in just one hour, which left OpenAI unable to catch up, despite delaying the release to all users and temporarily disabling video generation for new Sora users.

The $20B deal between Apple and Google that has iPhone users concerned

Google paid Apple $20B to be the default search engine on iPhones — and both companies hoped to shield it from the public.

The deal continues to fuel Google’s ad revenue engine, which made an eye-popping +$250B in 2024.

Mode Mobile wants smartphone users to get their piece of that.

They’re flipping the data industry on its head, splitting the revenue with their users by turning smartphones into revenue-generating assets.

Here’s what that looks like:

Paid over $325M to over 45M users.
Generated 32,481% 3-year revenue growth.
Ranked #1 fastest-growing software company by Deloitte in 2023.

📲Their EarnPhone could be considered the Uber of smartphones, and they’re gearing up for a potential IPO on the Nasdaq (ticker: $MODE).

And as companies desperately seek to extract more data, you can invest in Mode’s pre-IPO offering at just $0.26/share.

Secure your stake in this $1T industry.

🚨 Our Report

Dating app, Tinder, has revealed a new in-app, AI voice-based game (only available for US users on iOS)—called The Game Game—which is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, and designed to let users practice their flirting and conversation skills.

🔓 Key Points

The game gives the user a stack of virtual cards; each card features a different AI persona and scenario—like reaching for the same shopping basket at the grocery store or a luggage mix-up at the airport.
Users interact with the AI persona and accumulate points for listening, flirting, and asking follow-up questions, and will receive real-time feedback, ‘winning’ the game if the AI persona agrees to a date.
The game was built using social psychology frameworks that inform scoring and feedback and is designed to be “a low-stakes, playful experience,” to help users practice their conversational skills in a low-risk environment.

🔐 Relevance

It seems that AI might be part of Tinder’s strategy to re-engage Gen Z daters (who make up half its user base) after it struggled to reverse the 8% decline in subscribers it faced in 2023, as it also released an AI-powered photo selector tool last year, and has since announced more, upcoming AI-powered features for matching.

OpenAI is once again caught in a copyright controversy, as AI watchdog—The AI Disclosures Project—accused the start-up of training its GPT-4o model on paywalled books from O’Reilly media, without permission.
The AI watchdog published a paper concluding that “GPT-4o demonstrates strong recognition of paywalled O’Reilly book content, compared to GPT-3.5” which ”shows recognition of publicly accessible O’Reilly books.”
They do acknowledge that GPT-4o might recognize the paywalled content if users have copied/pasted excerpts into ChatGPT, but OpenAI has actively been seeking high-quality training data, leaving many suspicious.

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STARTUPS

Name: YoDayo
Value: $10M—$14M
Funding raised: $2.4M (Seed)

YoDayo is an AI platform with an art generator (powered by image generation models, including Stable Diffusion 1.5) and a chatbot that creatives can use to generate anime-style drawings.

PODCASTS

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