{"id":353612,"date":"2026-03-23T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/353612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:31:13","slug":"openai-to-double-headcount-semafor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/353612\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI to double headcount | Semafor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI plans to nearly double its headcount to 8,000 employees this year, as the startup ramps up a push to sell its AI products to businesses, the Financial Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The ChatGPT creator has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7ffea5b4-e8bc-47cd-adb4-257f84c8028b?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">losing out on business customers<\/a> to rival Anthropic, credit card payment data suggests, even as OpenAI\u2019s chatbot remains popular among individual users.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s hiring spree comes amid a dampened US labor market, as more companies pursue layoffs and pause hiring, often citing AI as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>But the AI boom will drive \u201can increase in demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmansachs.com\/insights\/articles\/how-will-ai-affect-the-us-labor-market\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">workers with AI knowledge<\/a> and associated skills,\u201d Goldman Sachs researchers wrote last week.<\/p>\n<p>It is also creating more blue-collar construction roles tied to the data center buildout.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cc88a4f24fedb4022519d3e0627d861b0e46d959-2612x1356.png\"  alt=\"AI automation chart\" width=\"740\" height=\"384\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_imageEmbed_1jdgl_38 _fullContentArea_1jdgl_42\" style=\"max-width:100%;color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI plans to nearly double its headcount to 8,000 employees this year, as the startup ramps up a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-353612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}