Sam Schechner

OpenAI has seen a lot of challenge lately from competitors.

You know, the chatbot race, which it ran away with early on and quickly and rose to 800 million users every week for ChatGPT, is now super competitive.

With this new model, OpenAI is really targeting business users.

We're talking about all the kinds of white-collar office work that

that people do on their computers.

And actually, OpenAI built its own metric for measuring how well an AI model does at these.

They broke out economically valuable office tasks, and they actually rated this model against that.

And so, I mean, take it with a grain of salt, it's their own metric, but they say that it performs far better than just even its previous version from a couple months ago.

In many cases, these companies aren't perhaps currently actively monetizing their

young teen users.

That's sort of one of the concessions that they made in efforts to stave off just this kind of legislation.

That being said, we know in part from our Facebook files reporting that the social media companies look at these young users as their future adult user base.

And now is the time when they can help attract users, build habits that will

continue to keep their companies with healthy user bases that generate revenue into the future.

It feels like just the conversation around AI chatbots has suddenly said, hey, Google, and that's been a real challenge for the company.

The most direct cause of this code red has been the immediate threat from Google.

Last month, the release of Gemini 3, its new model, blew past OpenAI on a closely watched third-party leaderboard of AI tools.

It

It feels like just the conversation around AI chatbots has suddenly said, hey, Google.

And that's been a real challenge for the company, leading Sam Altman to put out a company-wide memo saying, OK, we need to pour resources back into ChatGPT, our core consumer product.