The rollout was even messy enough to spill into betting markets. One 27-year-old day trader, Foster McCoy, pocketed $10,000 in just a few hours by wagering that Google’s Gemini would beat GPT-5 in a popularity contest.

OpenAI might unveil the gadget in late 2026, with CEO Altman aiming to ship 100 million units faster than any product before.

Altman has also backed the company Longshot Space, which dreams of taking on Musk’s SpaceX with a gigantic gun that shoots satellites into orbit (seriously). He has also invested in Glydways, another robocar startup that could one day compete with Tesla’s self-driving robotaxis.

That seems to be the gist of what Altman said during a dinner held in San Francisco on Thursday with a group of journalists and other OpenAI execs, according to The Verge. During that casual conversation,

At a dinner with reporters in San Francisco, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spilled details on the company's ambitions beyond ChatGPT.

Sam Altman predicts the class of 2035 could trade office jobs for AI-driven careers in outer space — a sci-fi sounding future he says is closer than we think.

Like the typewriter, the PC, and then the smartphone, AI is poised to radically change the office environment.

It's not hard to imagine OpenAI CEO Sam Altman uses his company's own product, ChatGPT, instead of Google Search.