Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAI’s flagship model because the San Francisco company has long positioned its technical advancements as a path toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a technology that is supposed to surpass humans at economically valuable work.

OpenAI hopes its fastest, smartest model yet will help it fend off rising competition from Google, Meta, Anthropic, and Chinese startups.

OpenAI started in 2015 as a nonprofit research laboratory to safely build AGI and has since incorporated a for-profit company with a valuation that has grown to $300 billion. The

The General Services Administration signs this new OneGov pact to help agencies adopt advanced artificial intelligence tools as part of the Trump administration’s push for AI leadership.

OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted.

Federal workers will now have access to ChatGPT Enterprise for a “deeply discounted rate” after the General Services Administration announced a partnership with OpenAI on Wednesday. The partnership, which guarantees the federal government a bill of $1 annually per agency instead of the previously contracted amount of $191 annually per user,