This is purely based on my daily observations while scrolling on X.<p>I have noticed that ever since DeepSeek came out, OpenAI, and especially Sam Altman has been more and more active. Pushing updates after updates, launching or announcing new features. Sama has been on fire spilling the beans. It is like they received a nudge, a boost, a push in the right direction and they are now building at 110% speed. We got Operator, Deep Research and GPT 4.5 announcement all within the last 4 weeks.<p>OpenAI feels so open & responsive and they've never been so transparent in my opinion.<p>Sama is also hinting at AGI more than the usual :D<p>I use ChatGPT only for personal use and business. I personally never cared for the advancements in Gemini, Claude or whatever, though I have used a self-hosted Llama on my RTX for quite a bit.<p>So, since I'm a ChatGPT Plus subscriber this only affected me positively.<p>What do you think? Is it just me? Oh and of course I think/hope OpenAI has a couple more stuff hidden in their sleeves.
They have to be, really, lest their house of cards come crashing down on them. Sam thought they were safe, that they had enough of a moat, but when a bunch of (really great) chinese quant engineers beat them with minimal resources, suddenly the fight was on again.<p>I am a huge fan of everything coming out of China and Europe lately. OpenAI needed competitors, this forces them to actually deliver graspable bussiness benefits, not just smoke and mirrors.