Daily AI Roundup: OpenAI expands ChatGPT Go; BBVA scales OpenAI in banking
OpenAI rolled out a notable update: ChatGPT Go has expanded its availability to a total of 98 countries, adding several European markets. The company also introduced Pulse, an asynchronous research assistant, and published safety classification models as open source — moves that strengthen its product offering and safety tooling.
Separately, BBVA announced it is scaling OpenAI across the bank’s workflows, embedding models into customer channels and internal tools. BBVA’s example shows how large enterprises are moving beyond pilots to production use with governance and human oversight.
Key highlights
- ChatGPT Go expansion: Coverage now reaches 98 countries, including recent additions in Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden).
- New features: Pulse research assistant, enhanced message credits, image generation and data analysis capabilities for Go users.
- Safety & transparency: OpenAI published safety classification models to the open source community, a step toward broader safety tooling.
- Enterprise adoption: BBVA is integrating OpenAI models widely across banking operations, highlighting governance and secure environments for AI deployment.
Why this matters
OpenAI’s expansion and tooling improvements accelerate access to advanced AI features globally, while open‑sourcing safety models helps researchers and developers scrutinize and build on safety work. At the same time, enterprise deployments like BBVA’s show a shift from experimentation to operational use, which raises questions about governance, accuracy and oversight.
What we didn’t find today
Perplexity’s latest fetch did not show major public updates today from Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini) or Microsoft. OpenAI’s product and enterprise news dominated the immediate headlines.
Sources: OpenAI product pages and coverage summarised from recent reporting. For details, see OpenAI’s announcements and BBVA press materials.
Discussion: Which development worries or excites you more — broader global access to advanced AI tools, or faster enterprise deployment? What safeguards do you want to see as these systems move into critical workflows?