Sam Altman, co-founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI, speaks in the course of the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City.
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OpenAI is giving customers a brand new option to discuss to its viral chatbot: 1-800-CHATGPT.
By dialing the U.S. quantity (1-800-242-8478) or messaging it by way of WhatsApp, customers can entry an “straightforward, handy, and low-cost option to strive it out via acquainted channels,” OpenAI stated Wednesday. At first, the corporate stated callers will get quarter-hour free monthly.
The information follows a barrage of updates from OpenAI as a part of a 12-day launch occasion. The most notable announcement was the official rollout of Sora, OpenAI’s buzzy AI video-generation instrument.
OpenAI lately employed its first chief advertising and marketing officer, indicating plans to spend extra on promoting to develop its consumer base. In October, the corporate debuted a search characteristic inside ChatGPT that positions it to raised compete with Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Perplexity.
It’s all a part of an aggressive development plan for OpenAI, as the corporate battles Amazon-backed Anthropic, Elon Musk’s xAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon within the quickly increasing generative synthetic intelligence market, which is predicted to high $1 trillion in income inside a decade.
OpenAI closed its newest funding spherical in October at a valuation of $157 billion. The firm additionally obtained a $4 billion revolving line of credit score, bringing its whole liquidity to greater than $10 billion.
For the 1-800 quantity, customers can name with out an account, however the firm stated in a livestream that it is “engaged on methods” to have the ability to combine WhatsApp messages with an individual’s ChatGPT credentials.
The staff constructed the instrument “just some weeks in the past,” an worker stated on the livestream.
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