A senior engineer describes the thrill, chaos, and exhaustion of working at OpenAI this past year while launching its coding agent Codex.

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could challenge Google Chrome’s dominance by integrating smart features.

The ChatGPT maker is eyeing the launch of its own productivity suite with generative AI built in, directly attacking Microsoft’s multibillion dollar Microsoft 365 office suite business.

Mira Murati rocketed into the spotlight in 2023 when she was named interim CEO of OpenAI after Sam Altman was briefly ousted by the company’s board.

OpenAI has its work cut out — Google Chrome, which is used by more than three billion people, currently holds more than two-thirds of the worldwide browser market, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Apple’s second-place Safari lags far behind with a 16% share. Last month, OpenAI said it had three million paying business users for ChatGPT.

Last week, we learned that OpenAI is prepping its own web browser. But its software ambitions are even grander than that.

OpenAI is the world's leading AI startup. For how long will depend on how well it fends off multi-front attacks from competitors like Meta and Google.