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AI Daily Brief — 23 April 2025

The Ghibli wave’s API counterpart lands. OpenAI shipped gpt-image-1 to developers worldwide. Microsoft unveiled the M365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release. And a heavyweight coalition — Hinton, Lessig, ex-OpenAI staff — sent the California and Delaware AGs an open letter trying to block OpenAI’s for-profit conversion.

Top stories

  • OpenAI ships gpt-image-1 in the API. The natively multimodal model powering ChatGPT image generation is now available to developers worldwide. Pricing: ~$0.02 / $0.07 / $0.19 per low / medium / high-quality square image. Context: in the month after the consumer launch, 130M users generated 700M+ images in the first week. via OpenAI
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release unveiled. Updated Copilot app positioned as ‘a window into the world of agents,’ plus AI-powered Search, a new Create experience, Copilot Notebooks, and an Agent Store. Driven by more advanced models, adaptive memory and reasoning agents. Rollout begins late May. via Microsoft
  • Coalition urges AGs to block OpenAI for-profit conversion. Geoffrey Hinton, Lawrence Lessig and several former OpenAI employees released an open letter urging the California and Delaware AGs to block OpenAI’s plan to convert from nonprofit-controlled to for-profit. Argued the restructuring ‘would eliminate essential safeguards’ on what could be ‘the most powerful technology ever created.’ via Washington Post
  • Omni raises $120M Series C at $1.5B valuation. AI analytics platform more than doubled its $650M March valuation. Surge reflects demand from companies replacing legacy BI tools and building data-driven AI products on Omni’s platform.
  • Aaru raises $80M Series A. AI research platform using simulated agents to predict consumer and political behavior — a vote of confidence in the synthetic-research category.
  • NFL and Adobe announce expanded AI-powered fan partnership. Ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft, Adobe was named an official NFL partner. Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Express and Firefly will power fan-content generation and engagement at new scale. via Adobe

Who shipped

OpenAI opened image generation to developers worldwide. Microsoft shipped the Wave 2 Copilot. Adobe landed the NFL partnership. Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and the Chinese labs all quiet.

Open-source pulse

No major open-weights drops dated Apr 23.

Money, infra & hardware

Omni $120M and Aaru $80M signal continued strong AI funding even with chip-export overhang on infra equity. The H20 China-export ban continued to weigh on NVIDIA, with the stock ‘waffling’ through the week.

Quiet corners

No Google, Anthropic or Meta product releases on this date. MIT’s AI Risk Repository v2 update added 22 newly published risk frameworks, expanded the dataset to 1,612 classified risks and added a new multi-agent risks subdomain.

By the numbers

  • $0.02 / $0.07 / $0.19 — gpt-image-1 per low / medium / high-quality image
  • 130M users / 700M+ images — first-week consumer gen scale
  • $120M / $1.5B — Omni Series C / post-money
  • $80M — Aaru Series A
  • 1,612 — classified risks in MIT AI Risk Repo v2
  • Most-mentioned company: OpenAI

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 23 April 2025.