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Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the technology space with this brief recap.

Llama 4

Meta's (META) latest large language model for AI, Llama 4, is running behind schedule as the company has pushed back the release date of Llama 4 at least twice and could do so again, two people familiar with the matter told The Information.

Currently, Meta is aiming to release Llama 4 later this month, said the sources, who indicated that one reason for the delay is that Llama 4 didn't perform as well on technical benchmarks as Meta had hoped, particularly in reasoning and mathematical tasks, during its development, the report added.

O3, O4-Mini Release 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated the following in a post to X: 

"Change of plans: we are going to release o3 and o4-mini after all, probably in a couple of weeks, and then do GPT-5 in a few months. there are a bunch of reasons for this, but the most exciting one is that we are going to be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally though. we also found it harder than we thought it was going to be to smoothly integrate everything. and we want to make sure we have enough capacity to support what we expect to be unprecedented demand."

Copyright Lawsuits

Twelve U.S. copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft (MSFT) have been consolidated in New York, despite most of the authors and news outlets suing the companies being opposed to centralization, The Guardian's Ella Creamer reported recently. A transfer order made by the US judicial panel on multidistrict litigation on Thursday said that centralization will "allow a single judge to coordinate discovery, streamline pretrial proceedings, and eliminate inconsistent rulings."

Cases brought in California by prominent authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michael Chabon, Junot Díaz, and the comedian Sarah Silverman will be transferred to New York and joined with cases brought by news outlets, including the New York Times (NYT), and other authors including John Grisham, George Saunders, Jonathan Franzen, and Jodi Picoult.

ChatGPT

Brad Lightcap, the COO of Microsoft-backed OpenAI, said via X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that more than 130 million ChatGPT users have generated over 700 million images since the feature's launch on March 25.

Lightcap added, "India is now our fastest growing chatgpt market. The range of visual creativity has been extremely inspiring. We appreciate your patience as we try to serve everyone, and the team continues to work around the clock."

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