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AI Daily Brief — 13 April 2025

A quiet Sunday with one signal worth recording: Altman publicly teasing OpenAI’s biggest launch week of Q2. UNCTAD’s tech-and-innovation report kept circulating with a $4.8T 2033 market projection and a 118-country governance-gap warning.

Top stories

  • Sam Altman teases OpenAI launch week. Tweeted that OpenAI had ‘a lot of good stuff’ coming this week, ‘kicking it off tomorrow’ — widely read as a teaser for the GPT-4.1 family (4.1, mini, nano) that would launch in the API on Apr 14.
  • UNCTAD Tech & Innovation Report 2025 in the news cycle. The UN Conference on Trade and Development report projects AI as a $4.8T market by 2033, warning that 118 countries are absent from global AI governance and that 100 firms drive 40% of private AI R&D spend. via UN News

Quiet corners

No model releases, no funding rounds, no papers, no chip announcements dated Apr 13. Frontier-lab calendar deferred to Monday’s GPT-4.1 launch and the NVIDIA US-manufacturing pledge.

By the numbers

  • $4.8T — UNCTAD’s projected AI market size by 2033
  • 118 countries — absent from global AI governance per UNCTAD
  • 100 firms / 40% — concentration of private AI R&D spend
  • 1 day — until Altman’s tease materializes
  • Most-mentioned company: OpenAI

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 13 April 2025.