The start-up is falling behind in the AI race.
When Gemini 3 was released in mid-November, it appeared to crush OpenAI’s top model on a suite of evaluations shared by Google. The bot has since received widespread praise from the tech industry. One analyst said that Gemini 3 is “the best model ever.” Another crowned Google as the “AI winners.” Sam Altman appears alarmed: Last week, in a company-wide memo, the OpenAI CEO reportedly declared a “code red” effort to improve ChatGPT’s capabilities.


