Overview
- An internal memo reported by The Information and the Wall Street Journal says Sam Altman ordered a company-wide push to improve ChatGPT’s speed, reliability, personalization and breadth of answers, with daily coordination calls and temporary team transfers.
- OpenAI plans to release a new reasoning model next week, which the memo claims outperforms Google’s Gemini 3 in internal tests, a performance assertion that has not been publicly validated.
- Work on advertising in ChatGPT is paused despite recent beta code references in the Android app, and projects including shopping and health agents and the personal assistant Pulse are delayed.
- Google’s Gemini 3, launched in mid-November, has led recent benchmarks such as Humanity’s Last Exam and reported 650 million monthly users, drawing endorsements from high-profile users like Marc Benioff.
- OpenAI says ChatGPT remains the leading assistant with about 800 million weekly users, while Altman warned staff of possible temporary economic headwinds from renewed competition.