AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

Bittensor co-founder Jacob Steeves responded to Covenant AI’s exit from the network, proposing to restart the subnet governance mechanism and bring in community votes to elect the team. He believes this is an opportunity to redefine the subnet’s form and criticized Covenant AI’s founder’s decision-making.

Alibaba confirms it has launched its own video generation model, HappyHorse-1.0, developed by the AI innovation division of Taotian Group. HappyHorse-1.0 performed exceptionally well in third-party evaluations. It has not yet been open-sourced and is consistent with Alibaba’s recent closed-source strategy. The release of the model is intended to respond to competitors’ market performance and strengthen its competitiveness in the MaaS market.

Anthropic announced on April 9 that Claude Cowork is officially available for all paid plans, and it added management features for enterprise users, including role-based access controls, group spending limits, and usage analytics dashboards. This product can be used in macOS and Windows desktop applications. Focused on enterprise needs, Anthropic continues to expand its AI product line, from developer-focused tools to team and enterprise-grade application technology.

Andrej Karpathy said that the public’s understanding of AI capabilities has developed a split, divided into two groups: ordinary users using the free version of ChatGPT and professional technical people using advanced models on a paid basis. He believes that the two are discussing entirely different products and emphasizes that progress in the technical field is significant because of verifiable reward functions and incentives driven by commercial value.

Anthropic launched the “Advisor strategy” on April 9, pairing Opus as an advisor with Sonnet or Haiku to run tasks, lowering costs and improving performance through the Messages API. The strategy separates reasoning and execution, allowing executors to consult Opus when they encounter obstacles, achieving higher intelligence in a single API request. Evaluations show that Sonnet paired with Opus improves performance by 2.7%, and reduces task costs by 11.9%. This strategy gives developers a better cost-performance option and has been met with strong enthusiasm from the community.

Gate News update: On April 10, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams posted on a social platform today, asking whether there are any Anthropic (an AI technology company) related resources for coordination, and said he hopes to test Mythos on Uniswap.

Musk’s xAI has recently filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s AI regulations, arguing they violate freedom of speech. The regulation is intended to prevent AI systems from exhibiting algorithmic discrimination across various fields; however, xAI’s own chatbot, Grok, has repeatedly generated racist remarks, highlighting a logical contradiction. This case may become an important precedent in U.S. AI regulation.

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, providing a fully managed AI agent development platform that simplifies enterprise automation workflows and claims it can accelerate product production by 10x. The platform features a secure infrastructure, supports long-duration execution and multi-agent coordination, and helps developers focus more on core business. Notion was among the first to adopt this service, improving work efficiency and showing that competition in the enterprise AI market is intensifying.

Gate News message, April 10, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, in recent internal communications DeepSeek’s founder, Liang Wenfeng, of AI large model company DeepSeek, revealed that DeepSeek’s next-generation flagship large model, DeepSeek V4, will be officially released in late April.

The AI memory system MemPalace, developed with the participation of Milajovа Vіchy, sparked controversy after its test results were questioned for cheating. Real-world testing results show that its efficiency was exaggerated and errors were frequent. The development team has admitted the problem and started fixing it, but multiple data sets still haven’t been corrected, leading to community dissatisfaction.

Covenant AI announced on April 10 that it was withdrawing from the Bittensor network, accusing key figure Jacob Steeves of betraying the promise of decentralization and citing multiple suppression actions. Covenant AI emphasized that the apparent decentralized governance of Bittensor is actually controlled by a single person, creating a “decentralization theater.” The team’s decentralized LLM pretraining project, Covenant-72B, has significant influence in the industry; this withdrawal is seen as a proactive choice rather than a failure.

Research shows that multiple reputable AI benchmark tests have security vulnerabilities that can be systematically exploited to achieve high scores. The research team revealed structural flaws and developed the WEASEL scanning tool to identify and patch these vulnerabilities. They noted that improper evaluation design may distort results and affect the assessment of an AI’s real capabilities.

Musk confirmed on the X platform that Grok 4.2 has 0.5 trillion parameters. Calculations suggest that Claude Opus has about 5 trillion parameters, and Sonnet has 1 trillion. Although Anthropic has not disclosed the model parameters, these figures come from Musk’s remarks. Meanwhile, SpaceX AI’s Colossus 2 supercomputer is training a model with the largest scale of 10 trillion parameters, which will become a key competitive factor.

AlphaTON Capital announced plans to raise $43.0 million through a transaction with Vertical Data Inc. to support its AI infrastructure operations, with a focus on deploying NVIDIA B300 GPUs to enhance the computing power of the Cocoon AI platform. This move is part of the company’s transition from biotechnology to encrypted AI infrastructure, aiming to achieve data privacy protection and deep integration of AI with digital assets.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Powell convened senior bank officials for an emergency meeting to discuss the potential threat to the financial system posed by Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos. The meeting aims to heighten banks’ awareness of risks from new types of cyberattacks and to ensure system security. Anthropic has discussed the model with U.S. officials and restricted the scope of its release.

The U.S. CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis said the CIA will incorporate AI into its analytical platforms over the next few years, but humans will still be the decision-makers. He mentioned a dispute with Anthropic and emphasized that competition between the U.S. and China in technology innovation is intensifying. AI and blockchain analytics will be key areas.

Gate News message: On April 10, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, VVV (Venice) is trading at $8.03. In the past 24 hours, it has pumped 19.99%, with a highest of $8.00 and a lowest pullback to $6.64. The total trading volume over the past 24 hours reached $834,000. Current market cap is approximately $364 million. Venice is a privacy-focused artificial intelligence platform that offers services such as generating conversations and image creation, but does not store user data. Users can privately or anonymously access industry-leading AI models including Claude Opus, GPT-5.2, Flux 2, and more, while also enjoying fully private data protection—every AI prompt is kept on the user’s device and is not stored on servers. In addition, Venice aims to eliminate platform