OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has declared a “code red” situation at the AI startup amid increased competition to ChatGPT , according to reports.

In an internal memo, seen by The Information and The Wall Street Journal , Mr Altman told employees that ChatGPT’s quality needed to improve in order to keep pace with rivals like Google Gemini .

Google released the latest version of its AI model last month, with Gemini 3 surpassing ChatGPT in a range of benchmark tests.

The tech giant said it represented a “new era of intelligence” after it set a new record score on Humanity’s Last Exam – a test created by AI safety researchers to identify artificial superintelligence.

Gemini 3 also drew widespread praise for its Nano Banana image generator, as well as its deep reasoning abilit

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