OpenAI wants to be ‘Anthropic’ as CEO of applications Fidji Simo tells employees in townhall: We cannot miss this moment because we are…

OpenAI is rethinking its entire strategy. The company’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, held an all-hands meeting last week where she told staff that the “do everything all at once” approach had run its course—and that coding and enterprise were the new north star. “We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests,” Simo said, according to remarks reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. “We really have to nail productivity in general and particularly productivity on the business front.”The shift is significant. OpenAI spent much of last year launching a video generator, a web browser called Atlas, a hardware device, and e-commerce features for ChatGPT. CEO Sam Altman had likened the approach to “betting on a series of startups” inside the company. That bet, it turns out, may have cost OpenAI its lead.