OpenAI's forgotten GPT Pulse was frozen by Altman's 'code red' to fight Anthropic
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-30
The author recalls that over a year ago OpenAI tried launching GPT Pulse, a personalized news and agentic-coded service, but the effort was frozen by Sam Altman's 'code red' to soup up Codex and compete with Anthropic on coding agents.
He argues OpenAI partly failed to find a business model offering good intelligence to free-tier users — something Google and Meta can do — and has already lost internationally to services running open-weight Chinese models, with the US consumer market likely next.
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