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
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


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

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