OpenAI

Explore our coverage of OpenAI, its future, its legal battles and its competition


Finance & economics

The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research

Economists are in raptures, but they should be careful

Business

Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a headache for Sam Altman’s OpenAI

Tesla’s boss is willing to use whatever means he can to hobble his opponent

Leaders

The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama

The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI

Business

Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins

But don’t count it out yet

Business

OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software

The more reasoning it does, the more computer power it uses

Business

What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?

OpenAI and Google have unveiled their next generation of products

Business

Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI

The fight is turning nasty

Finance & economics

Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?

Two years after ChatGPT-3.5 arrived, progress has been slower than expected

Business

Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall

But it’s “urgent” to get to the next level, Jensen Huang tells The Economist

Business

What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common

The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses

The World Ahead Technology in 2025

Will the bubble burst for AI in 2025, or will it start to deliver?

It is the biggest gamble in business history—but adoption of AI is proving patchy

Leaders

Why open-source AI models are good for the world

Their critics dwell on the dangers and underestimate the benefits