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Sam Altman saw the writing on the wall months ago. The OpenAI CEO issued a \u201ccode red\u201d late last year after realizing the company was spreading itself too thin \u2014 chasing everything from video models to robotics while Anthropic focused on winning business customers. The strategy backfired. Business customers purchasing AI for the first time now choose Anthropic at three times the rate of OpenAI.<\/p>\n
Altman\u2019s solution: hire aggressively and refocus. He plans to double OpenAI\u2019s workforce to 8,000 employees<\/a> by year-end, with new hires working across product development, engineering, research and sales. OpenAI is also ditching \u201cside quests\u201d to concentrate on its core products.<\/p>\n The stakes are high. OpenAI needs to close the enterprise gap while solving another big problem: 90% of ChatGPT\u2019s 900 million users don\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Sam Altman saw the writing on the wall months ago. The OpenAI CEO issued a \u201ccode red\u201d late last year after realizing the company was spreading itself too thin \u2014 chasing everything from video models to robotics while Anthropic focused on winning business customers. The strategy backfired. Business customers purchasing AI for the first time now choose Anthropic at three times the rate of OpenAI.<\/p>\n Altman\u2019s solution: hire aggressively and refocus. He plans to double OpenAI\u2019s workforce to 8,000 employees<\/a> by year-end, with new hires working across product development, engineering, research and sales. OpenAI is also ditching \u201cside quests\u201d to concentrate on its core products.<\/p>\n The stakes are high. OpenAI needs to close the enterprise gap while solving another big problem: 90% of ChatGPT\u2019s 900 million users don\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n