OpenAI

Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. "We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months," Altman wrote on X.

OpenAI is facing increasing pressure from rivals such as Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which have adopted an "open" approach to launching models. In contrast to OpenAI's strategy, these "open" competitors make their models available to the AI community for experimentation and, in some cases, commercialization.

OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic's standard, Model Context Protocol (MCP), for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.

OpenAI has launched 'OpenAI Academy,' a free online resource offering AI education for all skill levels, including workshops, digital content.

OpenAI's new API and Agents SDK consolidate a previously fragmented complex ecosystem into a unified, production-ready framework. For enterprise AI teams, the implications are potentially profound: Projects that previously demanded multiple frameworks,

Though it might have seemed like OpenAI was on the ropes between its recent weirdness with Microsoft and the disruptive arrival of DeepSeek, CNBC reports that the firm behind ChatGPT now has 400 million weekly active users — up 100 million from last December.

OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users, up from 300 million in early December, OpenAI's chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, tells CNBC.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman will spend the coming weeks jetting between Tokyo, New Delhi, Dubai and Germany as the race to dominate artificial intelligence takes on new urgency.