OpenAI will acquire Statsig, a startup focused on product testing, in a deal that highlights how the company is building out applications around ChatGPT. Statsig CEO Vijave Raji will become OpenAI's CTO of applications.
Oracle said it has deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its applications and database portfolio in what amounts to more choices for Oracle customers and additional distribution for OpenAI.
OpenAI launched GPT-5, a system of models that are the company's most advanced with the promise of advanced reasoning, coding abilities and agentic features.
OpenAI released two open-weight models--gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b--but the real news revolves around distribution. These two new OpenAI models have a wide distribution including availability on Amazon Web Services for the first time.
OpenAI plans to measure productivity gains for ChatGPT over the 12 months via the company's economic research team and academic partners.
OpenAI and Microsoft are going to be rivals as the companies increasingly appear to be tilting away from the frenemy and partner model that has paid off so well for both companies.
