The article dissects GPT‑6’s technical upgrades, pricing, massive funding round, internal turmoil, and fierce competition from DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic, and Google, arguing that OpenAI’s breakthrough may be outweighed by financial and market pressures.
An in‑depth analysis of 2025 H1 OpenRouter token usage shows explosive growth in Q1, highlights Google Gemini’s market dominance, reveals diverse long‑tail demand across domains, and examines shifting API preferences, offering key insights into the evolving landscape of large‑model services.
This issue introduces a Tsinghua research breakthrough for fine‑grained video understanding with multimodal large models, explains how to engineer open‑source models to reliably emit JSON, reviews recent AI‑driven earnings of cloud giants and challenges faced by domestic AI firms, and highlights a new text‑to‑image tool, Recraft.ai.
