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OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' to Refocus on ChatGPT as Google’s Gemini 3 Surges

The shift concentrates staff on faster, more reliable, more personal replies to counter Google’s Gemini 3 gains.

Overview

  • An internal memo reported by the Wall Street Journal and The Information orders a company-wide push on ChatGPT with daily coordination calls and temporary team transfers.
  • OpenAI is postponing advertising experiments, shopping and health agents, and the Pulse personal assistant to free up engineering capacity for core quality improvements.
  • The memo says a new reasoning model is targeted for next week and claims internal evaluations show it outperforming Google’s Gemini 3, which OpenAI has not publicly confirmed.
  • Google’s latest model has led recent benchmarks and grown to about 650 million monthly users, while OpenAI says ChatGPT reaches roughly 800 million weekly users.
  • Reporters noted elevated error rates and outage complaints for ChatGPT on Tuesday, and OpenAI did not provide public comment on the leaked memo.