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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- OpenAI felt the squeeze of recent OpenAI and Anthropic releases.
- CEO Sam Altman has reportedly initiated a “code red.”
- As a result, OpenAI is working on a new “Garlic” model.
Following Google’s release of Gemini 3, which quickly rose to the top of the LMArena AI leaderboard, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman informed employees that he was declaring a “code red.” The aim was to further improve ChatGPT…

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