SAN FRANCISCO — According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a “code red” to employees to improve its flagship product ChatGPT and delay development of other products.
The newspaper reported On Monday, Altman sent an internal memo to employees saying more work was needed to improve the speed, reliability and personalization of the AI ​​chatbot.
This week marks three years since OpenAI first released ChatGPT, sparking global excitement and a commercial boom in generative AI technologies and giving the San Francisco startup a lead. But the company faces growing competition from rivals including Google, which Gemini 3 released last monththe latest version of our own AI assistant.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Tech news publication The Information also reported on the memo.
Altman said in the fall that ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly users. But the company, valued at $500 billion, is not making a profit and has taken on more than $1 trillion in financial liabilities to cloud computing providers and the chip makers it relies on for its artificial intelligence systems.
The risk that OpenAI won't make enough money to meet the expectations of backers like Oracle and Nvidia has fueled investor concerns about AI bubble.
Nick Turley, OpenAI vice president and 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 functional and “even more intuitive and personalized.”
OpenAI generates revenue from premium subscriptions to ChatGPT, but most users receive the free version. OpenAI introduced its own web browserAtlas, October, attempts to compete with Google Chrome as more Internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. But OpenAI has not yet tried to sell advertising on ChatGPT, where Google makes money from its dominant search business.
Altman's memo said the company was delaying work on the ad. AI agents on health and shopping issues, as well as a personal assistant named Pulse, the magazine reports.
