Overview
- Sam Altman told employees the company is on its highest alert level to counter Google’s latest Gemini advances, according to reports of his internal memo.
- OpenAI is diverting teams from advertising, shopping tools, retail and health agents, and the Pulse assistant to accelerate core ChatGPT improvements.
- Google’s Gemini 3 and Gemini 3 Pro have posted leading scores on public AI benchmarks and have drawn strong user reviews.
- Users report easy switching between platforms, with prominent endorsements for Gemini such as Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff saying he is moving from ChatGPT.
- Altman’s memo says a new OpenAI reasoning model that beats Gemini in internal tests is coming, a claim not yet independently verified, raising stakes for retaining ChatGPT’s large user base.