ChatGpt cost OpenAi $540 million

OpenAi, the company that develops the artificial intelligence language behind ChatGpt, lost $540 million in 2022. The figure, which appeared on The Information website, indicates that much of the decline stems from the organization's efforts to finalize ChatGpt. OpenAi, earlier this year, received a strong investment from Microsoft, amounting to about 10 billion dollars. But the big hi-tech is not new to supporting the organization: it had already financed it between 2019 and 2021 with 1 billion dollars. As The Information explains, the high costs derive from the computing power of the computers necessary for the operation and processing of data for the so-called LLM, the "large language models", the linguistic models that give projects like ChatGpt the ability to understand human language and respond conversationally. An analyst interviewed by the newspaper recalls that ChatGpt alone "costs" OpenAi about 700 thousand dollars a day.

In February, OpenAi launched a subscription fee, called ChatGpt Plus, to try to make money. However, The Information recalls that the $ 20 per month required from each subscriber to the service will hardly be able to pay off the debt: "the more customers use ChatGpt, the more the company will need to make the algorithms better and faster". OpenAi CEO Sam Altman said the company could raise another $100 billion in funding over the next few years, riding on the interest in AI, especially ahead of the launch of a new generation of ChatGpt. The wait is for general artificial intelligence (AGI), a model so advanced that it makes itself indistinguishable from a human counterpart in the opportunities for interaction and mastery of conversation. OpenAi's direct competitor, Google, is developing its own AI software called Bard, which could require Big G to spend up to ten times more on how current web search works.