OpenAI has declared a situation of “code red” in the company under pressure from its competitors, especially Google, so will restructure its efforts to improve the quality of ChatGPT with improvements in customization functions for users and more speed, before focusing on other products.
The artificial intelligence (AI) company is facing the growth of other companies in the sector, as is the case of Google, which recently presented the new version of its Gemini 3 model with advanced reasoning capabilities, as well as its Nano Banana Pro imaging model, which is being widely received by users.
These advances by Google are causing the technology company to increase the number of users who use its services, which currently has 650 million active users in the Gemini assistant application, as indicated in October of this year.
In this framework, the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has sent a communicated to company employees in which he has declared that OpenAI is in a “code red” situation, the maximum urgency to address problems in the company, and has detailed that, as a consequence, it will carry out a restructuring in your roadmap to focus on improving its current ChatGPT assistant, delaying other products.
This has been reported by media such as The Wall Street Journal and The Information, who have had access to the statement in which Altman mentions that the company still has to improve the user experience of its ‘chatbot’, specifically by expanding the personalization functions, as well as increasing the speed and reliability of its responses and allowing it to respond to a wider range of questions.
In this way, the manager aims to ensure that users continue using ChatGPT to perform day-to-day tasks and prevent other assistants, such as Gemini or Claude AI from Anthropic, from gaining more weight in the sector.
As a consequence, Altman has also specified that the company will delay your efforts on other projects, to allocate resources to the ‘chatbot’. In this regard, he has mentioned initiatives related to introduce advertisingthe development of AI agents for health and shopping and the personal assistant known as Pulse, which offers personalized daily updates to users.
Therefore, the company has decided to focus its efforts on grow your chatbot and improve its capabilitiesinstead of continuing to expand its related products, which are will be delayed until further notice.
With all this, it must be taken into account that, coinciding with its third anniversary since its launch, ChatGPT currently has 800 million users who turn to him as more than just a search engine, since they also use him as a co-worker, as a personal advisor or as a confidant.
On the other hand, Altman has also announced in the statement that he intends to launch a new reasoning model coming next week which, he has assured, will surpass Google’s latest Gemini 3 model.
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