OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Washington, ahead of a meeting with business leaders and legislators in September. SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI laid out a vision for building an ambitious consumer-facing business, unveiling Monday an app-store-like marketplace where users will get paid for making chatbots using the company’s technology.The announcement came during an event OpenAI held for software developers who are building their own products using its AI.
More than 2 million developers are using OpenAI’s tools to build their own AI products and businesses, and more than 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using OpenAI, the company said. About 100 million people used ChatGPT every week, it said. In a sign of great interest, OpenAI’s developer conference took up multiple floors of a large event space in downtown San Francisco, spilling onto the roof where a breakfast spread of burritos and avocado toast, complete with a separate table featuring multiple hot sauces, awaited the hundreds of attendees lining up outside to get in.
But despite billions of dollars in investment from Big Tech and venture capitalists, few products have been moneymaking hits, and it’s unclear what impact generative AI will have on businesses and the economy.website than had been earlier in the year, but now that number is growing again and nearing the peak it hit in April, potentially because students in North America and Europe are back from summer vacation.There were 1.5 billion visits to the ChatGPT website in September, compared to 1.