Recent reports have revealed that OpenAI is facing increasing pressure in light of the remarkable progress that Google has made with its new Gemini 3 model.

An internal memo published by The Information showed how the company's CEO Sam Altman is dealing with this sudden shift in the scales of the AI race, and the steps OpenAI intends to take to get back on top.

According to the report, Altman warned his employees in the internal memo that Google's recent advances in artificial intelligence could temporarily create economic headwinds for the company, adding that the general atmosphere will be harsh for a period of time.

Altman's statements confirm that the technical gap between OpenAI, Google and Anthropic is shrinking rapidly, as his memo came after reports that Google was developing a new AI model that adopts an advanced methodology, and has already succeeded in surpassing OpenAI in most metrics, and Google later launched the Gemini 3 model, which ranked it first in almost all performance metrics.

The memo

highlighted that Google's progress has largely relied on improvements in the pre-training phase, the key stage where the model learns from a huge amount of data.

While this phase seemed to have reached its limits over the past few years, Google's success suggests that it can make qualitative leaps.