A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions

MIT Technology Review - AI
Aug 5, 2025 09:00
James O'Donnell
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Summary

OpenAI is balancing its role as a major tech company—powering products like ChatGPT, which handles 2.5 billion daily requests—with its foundational mission to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI). This dual focus highlights both the commercial impact of AI technologies and the ongoing pursuit of transformative research that could shape the future of the field.

OpenAI has given itself a dual mandate. On the one hand, it’s a tech giant rooted in products, including of course ChatGPT, which people around the world reportedly send 2.5 billion requests to each day. But its original mission is to serve as a research lab that will not only create “artificial general intelligence” but…