OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a "code red" alert to staff, urging them to focus on enhancing its flagship product, ChatGPT, while postponing the development of other projects, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The newspaper reported that Altman sent an internal memo to staff Monday saying more work was needed to enhance the artificial intelligence chatbot’s speed, reliability and personalization features.
This week marks three years since OpenAI first released ChatGPT, sparking global fascination and a commercial boom in generative
But that early lead is now pressured by competitors, especially Google, which last month rolled out Gemini 3, the newest version of its AI assistant. OpenAI did not comment publicly on the memo, which was also reported by The Information.
Altman said this fall that ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly users. But the company, valued at $500 billion, doesn’t make a profit and has committed more than $1 trillion in financial obligations to the cloud computing providers and chipmakers it relies on to power its AI systems.
The risk that OpenAI won’t make enough money to fulfill the expectations of backers like Oracle and Nvidia has amplified investor concerns about an AI bubble.
Nick Turley, an OpenAI vice president and its head of ChatGPT, posted on social media Monday that online search is one of the product’s biggest areas of opportunity as the company focuses on making ChatGPT more capable and “even more intuitive and personal.”
OpenAI makes revenue from premium subscriptions to ChatGPT but most users get the free version. OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, in October, an attempt to compete with Google’s Chrome as more internet users rely on AI to answer their questions. But OpenAI hasn’t yet tried to sell ads on ChatGPT, which is how Google makes money from its dominant search business.
Altman’s memo said the company was delaying work on advertising, AI agents for health and shopping, and a personal assistant called Pulse, according to the Journal.
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