OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be the Next WeChat

The line inside OpenAI that chat is dead is the real story here, a company built entirely on a text box now trying to become the operating system for daily errands. It is a bet that habit and convenience beat raw model quality, which is a very different fight than the one OpenAI has been having with Anthropic over benchmarks. Whether a billion mostly free users can be turned into WeChat style superusers before the IPO clock runs out is the open question.