On March 31, 2025, OpenAI announced that it had completed a $40 billion financing, bringing its valuation to $300 billion, becoming one of the largest private technology transactions in history.
On March 31, the Wuhan Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Peking University & the Beijing Institute of General Artificial Intelligence jointly released China's first large-scale social simulator of general artificial intelligence.
On March 31, Isomorphic Labs announced that it had raised $600 million in its first round of external financing to accelerate its AI-driven drug discovery work. The company uses its next-generation AI drug design engine, including AlphaFold 3, to develop treatments in collaboration with companies such as Novartis and Eli Lilly.
March 31: China released several important AI advances at the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference in Beijing, including the establishment of the Youth AI Academy, the launch of the AI Public Computing Platform Ecological Network, and the release of the first general artificial intelligence large-scale social simulator, showing China's active investment in AI basic research and ecological construction.
On April 1, Meta's huge investment in AI and the metaverse may face challenges due to the expected slowdown in the digital advertising market. Analysts lowered their expectations for US non-political advertising growth in 2025, mainly affected by new tariffs and economic uncertainty.
According to data from AI analysis platform aitools.xyz, China's AI tool DeepSeek has surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT in monthly new website visits, becoming the fastest growing AI tool in the world.
On April 2, the Trump administration's new tariff policy was promulgated. In the next two trading days, US technology stocks and AI-related concept stocks plummeted. Apple fell more than 13% this week, Nvidia fell more than 14%, Qualcomm fell more than 16%, and Micron Technology fell more than 26%. The market value of the seven giants in the US stock market "" lost a total of US$1.8 trillion.
On April 3, GIBO Holdings Limited, Asia's largest AI animation platform, announced that it would be listed on the Nasdaq through a merger with Bukit Jalil Global Acquisition 1 Ltd. (NASDAQ:BUJA), a US SPAC company. The transaction valued GIBO at $8.28 billion, making it the largest SPAC listing case in the AI entertainment field.
On April 3, Apple and Amazon promised to bring revolutionary generative AI upgrades to Siri and Alexa, but these features have not yet been realized, sparking doubts from consumers and investors.
On April 3, President Trump's major fossil fuel donors made significant profits as his government relaxed environmental regulations and supported the expansion of energy-intensive AI and data centers.
On April 4, medical experts called on the NHS to speed up the use of artificial intelligence in cancer screening, pointing out that the current delay may affect the quality of patient care.
Overall, the focus of AI last week was still on China and the United States. In particular, in 2025, China's AI companies have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and their innovation capabilities have received global attention.
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