OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse

GPU prices could follow RAM's big rise OpenAI's house of cards seems primed to collapse In 2025, it fell behind the one company it couldn't lose ground to: Google. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors' Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2025. OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago. Back in 2022, the sudden popularity of ChatGPT sent Google into a panic . The company was so worried about the possibility of the upstart chatbot disrupting its Search business, executives sounded a code red alert inside of the company and called Sergey Brin and Larry Page out of retirement to help it formulate a response to OpenAI.