OpenAI, a company valued at around $500 billion, is facing increasingly fierce technical competition . Google’s latest version of Gemini 3 , in particular, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-5 in several areas. “The world today is profoundly different from the situation two years ago, when OpenAI was ahead of everyone else,” Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief scientific officer of the artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face, told the Financial Times . OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself recently admitted in a leaked memo to staff that the company must prepare for a period of intense competition. Just a year ago, Google’s position seemed less favorable, but