On December 3rd, according to The InformationOpenAI CEO Sam Altman At the local time week, staff members declared "red alert" in response to pressure from artificial intellectual rivals such as Google and focused their resources on improving ChatGPT's performance。
Altman stated that the company would therefore defer other plans, including advertising。
Altman noted in his internal memo that "we are at a critical juncture in ChatGPT." He stressed thatOpenAI will give priority to the introduction of a new reasoning model that will perform better in its internal assessment than the Google Gemini 3。
According to the information received, OpenAI is planning to counter-attack through a new large-language model code-named Garlic。
According to sources, the Chief Research Officer of OpenAI, Mark Chen, recently introduced the new model to inside the company, and Gartlic was able to match Google Gemini 3 and Anthropic Opus 4.5.
AT THE SAME TIME, THE COMPANY WILL ACCELERATE IMPROVEMENTS IN IMAGE GENERATION, IMPROVE MODEL BEHAVIOUR, OPTIMIZE SPEED AND RELIABILITY, AND REDUCE OVER-REJECTING。
According to the source, OpenAI had been testing various forms of advertising, including those related to online shopping, but the plan had been suspended. In addition, the development of other products, such as AI angent for automated shopping and health missions, and Pulse, which produces individualized reports for users, will be delayed。
Altman warns in his internal communication that Google's AI counterattack may bring "short-term economic resistance"。
Google announced in October that its monthly active users of Gemini chat robots had increased to 650 million, up from 450 million in July, indicating a clear increase. In contrast, OpenAI discloses that ChatGPT users exceed 800 million a week and occupy approximately 70% 's AI assistant activities worldwide。
At the financial level, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar mentioned in his conversations with investors last month signs of a slowdown in ChatGPT growth。
The company expects to generate about $10 billion this year, $20 billion next year and about $35 billion in 2027. Meanwhile, OpenAI plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in technology research and development and computing support in the coming years。
Altman stressed that OpenAI's "red alert" was not just a defence, but a proactive attack. He said that the new reasoning model that will be released next week will further enhance ChatGPT’s “thinking mode” and Deep Research in order to maintain its lead in fierce competition。