OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI Release New AI Models While OpenAI Loses Two Senior Executives

OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI released multiple new AI models and features across Tuesday through Thursday. Insider reported the announcements came from the three labs in rapid succession. OpenAI introduced GPT-Live on Wednesday, a voice model designed to make interactions with ChatGPT Voice resemble conversations with a human.

The company followed on Thursday with the GPT-5.6 family, which includes the flagship Sol model, the everyday Terra model, and the cost-saving Luna model. It also integrated Codex into the ChatGPT desktop app and announced ChatGPT Work, a workplace-oriented agent. OpenAI said it would sunset its Atlas browser.

Meta released Muse Image on Tuesday and the updated Muse Spark 1.1 model shortly afterward. Mark Zuckerberg stated that other AI labs priced their chatbots at very extreme levels. SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first model since its acquisition of Cursor.

Elon Musk said he was clearly wrong about Anthropic and that it was the clear AI leader. Anthropic has been paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for compute. Anthropic released a Reflect feature on Thursday that provides users a summary and analysis of their habits with Claude.

Perplexity is developing a coding tool called Teammate to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of applications, announced on Thursday that she would leave her full-time role and become a part-time adviser after taking medical leave in April. She posted that she had shared the decision with the OpenAI team.

OpenAI's chief futurist also departed after nine years. Investor Jason Calacanis wrote on X that it was like a better new operating system, laptop and CPU being launched every 14 days. Alexandr Wang, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei lead three of the leading AI labs.