two days later Google persist in There are currently no plans to place ads in its Gemini AI app OpenAI Announce On Friday, it began testing ads in ChatGPT.
In the coming weeks, ads will start appearing at the bottom of chatbot answers for free users and Go subscribers (who pay $8 a month) in the United States, OpenAI Apps CEO Fidji Simo said in a blog post, opening up a significant new revenue stream for the ambitious startup, which has been valued by investors at $500 billion.
Many in the tech community have long considered this the inevitable: running cutting-edge AI models is prohibitively expensive, consuming vast amounts of computing power, electricity, and GPUs. The revenue stream from advertising is irresistible. OpenAI expects to generate “billions of dollars” in revenue this year and more every year thereafter. The Financial Times reported on Friday An anonymous source “close to the company” was quoted as saying.
While Google has so far not run ads in its standalone Gemini chatbot app, the company has included ads in the artificial intelligence overviews that appear in its online search results, a move seen as necessary as the company seeks to expand its $265 billion-a-year advertising business into the artificial intelligence era.
OpenAI said in its blog post that upcoming ads will be clearly labeled and user conversations with ChatGPT will be kept private. “You need to know that your data and conversations are protected and never sold to advertisers,” the company said. “We need to maintain high standards and put you in control of your experience so that you see high-quality ads that are truly relevant and can turn off personalization if you want.” Additionally, it said ads will not influence ChatGPT’s answers and said it “optimizes based on the content that is most helpful to you.”
OpenAI emphasized that subscriptions remain its long-term priority and said that $20 per month Plus and $200 per month Pro subscriptions, as well as the Enterprise version of the product, will remain ad-free. “Our enterprise and subscription businesses are already strong, and we believe that with diverse revenue models, advertising can play a role in making intelligence more accessible to everyone,” the company wrote.
Still, the company doubled down on efforts to tie the ad’s rollout to its overall mission to ensure that advanced general intelligence (AGI) “benefits all of humanity,” Simo wrote.
in a separate blog post On Friday, OpenAI said, “Advertising helps us make ChatGPT free and affordable, supporting our commitment to making AI accessible to everyone.”