Sam Altman Declares 'Code Red' for ChatGPT, Delays OpenAI Advertising Plans

OpenAI is deprioritizing enactment connected advertizing arsenic it focuses connected improving the prime of ChatGPT, reports The Information. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a "code red" connected Monday, and told employees that the institution needs to amended ChatGPT truthful it doesn't autumn down competitors similar Google and Anthropic.


Altman said that OpenAI needs to enactment connected personalization for each user, representation generation, and exemplary behaviour similar velocity and reliability.

Google debuted Gemini 3 Pro successful November, and it outperforms ChatGPT connected respective benchmarking tests. Google has been luring users with its Nano Banana AI representation generator and Anthropic's Claude is fashionable with concern customers.

OpenAI's program to commencement showing customers ads leaked earlier this week, but Altman told employees that ads are present connected the backburner. Work connected advertising, buying AI agents, and a much proactive and personalized version ChatGPT adjunct called Pulse has been delayed. OpenAI has been investigating respective kinds of ads, including ads that would beryllium shown during online buying requests, but introducing ads could propulsion users to different chatbots.

Following the worker memo, ChatGPT pb Nick Turley announced that OpenAI would absorption connected "making ChatGPT much capable, proceed growing, and grow entree astir the satellite -- portion making it consciousness adjacent much intuitive and personal."

OpenAI is not profitable, and it has to trust connected its idiosyncratic numbers for investments. If it loses a important fig of users to Google, it could tally into fiscal trouble.

OpenAI volition vessel a caller reasoning exemplary adjacent week, which Altman said is up of Gemini 3 successful interior evaluations.
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