Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy.

This week, I’m focusing on the increasing pressure on the AI industry’s wunderkind, OpenAI. I also look at the change in AI leadership at Apple, and at the music industry’s new cooperation with AI music generation apps.

Is OpenAI still the king?

The AI industry has always been very competitive, and it’s getting even more so. A relatively small group of AI labs are slugging it out to release the smartest models, and, by extension, the smartest chatbots. Ever since OpenAI released its ChatGPT chatbot three years ago, the upstart company has been seen as the leader, but that stat

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