OpenAI's code red has halted work on several initiatives in order to improve its core product, ChatGPT, as competition from Google heats up.

Recently, Google introduced Gemini 3, which the company called its "most intelligent" AI model yet. So far, the AI leaderboards agree, with Gemini 3 surging ahead of rivals like ChatGPT at LMArena. Now, OpenAI head honcho Sam Altman has reportedly declared "code red" at the company in response to increased pressure from competitors.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a "code red" effort in his company to improve the quality of ChatGPT, and as a result, delaying other products, a report said.

The directive creates an odd symmetry with events from December 2022, when Google management declared its own “code red” internal emergency after ChatGPT launched and rapidly gained in popularity. At the time,

With the additional news that Google’s in-house chip-building efforts seem to be going well, a late-2025 snapshot of the AI race probably doesn’t have OpenAI in the lead. Since the release of ChatGPT,

A 17-year veteran of Amazon, Torben Severson announced on LinkedIn that he had left the mega-retailer to join OpenAI.

Anthropic, the AI startup behind the popular Claude chatbot, is reportedly in talks to launch one of the largest initial public offerings ever as 2025.

The ChatGPT maker faces at least two different California ballot initiatives, targeting its multibillion-dollar corporate restructuring.

Nvidia's agreement with ChatGPT parent OpenAI to invest up to $100 billion in the startup is still not finalized, the chipmaker's chief financial officer Colette Kress said on Tuesday at the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference in Arizona.

Mad Money' host Jim Cramer talks growing competition in the AI ChatBot space as ChatGPT's Sam Altman sounds the alarm.