To quote Bruce Willis "Welcome to the party pal"

It seems this one caught openai on the back foot, and this is a scramble to maintain parity.

The company is clearly still innovating towards AGI rather than asking "what do people actually need?"

Despite once being the darling of AI it's

- lost it's models' performance edge, and got too many similar offerings

- continues to launch products without a market or isn't done better using other tools (e.g. dots)

- despite having AI can't lock down it's own products showing lack of skill

- focuses on solving maths problems humans can do for tests, when real world problems - disease, materials, energy research etc is all outstanding

- abandoned it's open model and open source programmes, despite Google, and multiple successful Chinese, and now European companies make their frontier models open weight.

- pissed off a portion of its non corporate fan base by killing GPT 4o instead of recognising the brand and product attachment as an opportunity

- launched laughing stock projects like being able to actually call chatgpt on a telephone number (wtf!)

- fails to capitalise on market segments like an AI that can provide corporate network sentry duties

It's increasingly looking like the company has jumped the shark and if I was an investor would be asking questions as to why it actually took so long to bring a jev like product to market, and why they are labelling something that is a simplification of existing models as "beta".

The whole point of AI as I see it is to make our life easier and answer the questions we can't. It isn't to make an AGI so powerful that it can replace us.

Along the way, that goal was forgotten, but it's not been forgotten by the new startups.