OpenAI announces retirement of beloved GPT-4o and legacy models on Feb 13, 2026, as only 0.1% of users still choose the warm conversational model daily.

Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba are set to release new generative AI models, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 large language model, heating up the domestic and global competition in the AI sector.

Turing Award winner and former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun argues that the tech industry's singular focus on large language models (LLMs) is a flawed path that will not lead to true artificial general intelligence.