OpenAI's most impressive move has nothing to do with AI

ChatGPT, Sora, Operator, and the new image generator are cool, but they're not the most impressive things OpenAI has done. Before you have me committed, hear me out. Personally, they've improved my workflow and unlocked efficiencies that ultimately led to more revenue. Also: AI has grown beyond human knowledge, says Google's DeepMind unit In fact, on March 31, 2025, OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, announced that ChatGPT gained one million new users in just one hour, driven by high demand for its newly launched image generation feature. In this article, we won't talk about benchmarks or how many gazillion data points were used to build a large language model.