Congratulations to Google and Meta — they’re expecting.
OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, was describing her company’s ads ambitions on Tuesday when she said that ChatGPT is like “if Google and Meta had a baby.”
Friar made the remarks before a full room of investors and analysts at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco.
The comment succinctly outlines OpenAI’s ambition to turn ChatGPT into a money-printing ads platform, following in the footsteps of its tech giant predecessors. In just seven months of placing ads on the chatbot, OpenAI’s ads business is now raking in cash at a rate that Friar said…
