ChatGPT still leads the artificial intelligence chatbot market. According to First Page Sage analysis in March this year. had 60.4 percent share among searches using AI. The next places were: Google Gemini (15.2%), Microsoft Copilot (12.9%), Perplexity (5.8%), Claude AI (4.5%) and Grok (0.6%).
On Saturday, the Financial Times reported that Open AI would increase its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 by the end of 2026, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. According to the newspaper, OpenAI plans to place most of the newly hired employees in product development, engineering, research and sales departments.
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The creator of ChatGPT is also increasing the recruitment of specialists involved in “technical ambassadorship”. Their task is to help companies make better use of the tools it offers.
Billions of dollars for Open AI
The latest round of financing valued the company at $840 billion, according to Softbank Big Tech and Masayoshi Sona joined the blockbuster financing round worth $110 billion.
According to sources, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued an internal “code red” in early December last year, pausing projects unrelated to the company's core business and ordering teams to accelerate development in response to Google's Gemini 3 system.
