The past month has been especially bruising for OpenAI. Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has raided the company for some of its top AI talent, luring away roughly a dozen elite researchers with promises of big money, greater autonomy, and a shared mission to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

The open nature of OpenAI’s upcoming language model means companies and governments will be able to run the model themselves, much like how Microsoft and other cloud providers quickly onboarded DeepSeek’s R1 model earlier this year.

OpenAI has completed its nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal to buy an AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc.’s former design chief Jony Ive, cementing the ChatGPT maker’s push into the hardware market.

o3, an artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by the creators of ChatGPT, has been ranked the best AI tool for answering science questions in multiple fields, according to a benchmarking platform launched last week.

The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.

OpenAI has officially closed its nearly $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famed former Apple designer Jony Ive, the company announced Wednesday. But it was careful to only refer to the startup as io Products Inc.

The creator of ChatGPT is handing out stock packages that exceed its total revenue, a high-stakes gamble to keep its engineers from defecting to rivals like Meta.