Artificial Intelligencer: OpenAI’s $852 billion problem: finding focus
By Deepa Seetharaman
Published on April 1, 2026.
OpenAI, a maker of ChatGPT, has raised $122 billion in the largest-ever fundraising round in Silicon Valley history, making it worth $852 billion. The company is now redirecting resources to its own coding product, Codex, and teams building tools for businesses. This strategy involves killing off some of OpenAI’s most high-profile projects, including Sora. However, Altman argues that the company's focus is on building a single AI system that can understand intent, take action, and operate across applications, data, and workflows. Despite these setbacks, OpenAI is now reversing course and building a superapp that combines ChatPPT with its other tools.
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