OpenAI Faces Its Greatest Crisis — Losing Direction Amid Fierce Competition
Once the undisputed leader of AI, OpenAI now finds itself besieged on all fronts. Market share has plummeted from 69% to 45% in a year as competitors seize the lead in coding, search, multimodal, and video generation. Caught between a B2B pivot and the 4o retirement fallout, can OpenAI find its way back?
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- Bloomberg - OpenAI's Market Share Drops Below 50% as Rivals Gain Ground
- The Verge - The QuitGPT movement has surpassed 1.2 million participants
- TechCrunch - Anthropic's Opus 4.6 dominates enterprise AI benchmarks
- Reuters - OpenAI's Code Red moment: internal turmoil and strategic missteps
- Financial Times - ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 triggers 'second DeepSeek moment' in Hollywood