2025-12-02
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The AI arms race is continuing to accelerate with open AI Chief Executive Sam Altman launching the latest salvo overnight.
In an internal memo late yesterday,
he told employees that the company was declaring a code red effort to improve the quality of chat GPT.
It's the clearest indication yet of the pressure open AI is facing from competitors as its lead in the industry narrows.
Journal reporter Burber Jin covers the AI race and says that Altman has grown particularly concerned about Google,
which released a new version of its Gemini AI model last month.
Berber, this seems like a pretty urgent declaration from OpenAI.
Have we seen the company issue something like this before?
This is the first time we've seen OpenAI so forcefully sound the warning call around chatGPT.