OpenAI is far from profitable. Founded in 2015, ChatGPT’s parent company, which recently decided to transform itself into a for-profit company, expected to lose about $5 billion last year, despite revenue of about $3. 7 billion, according to the “New York Times”. And if some thought that the expensive subscription ($200 per month) to ChatGPT Pro giving unlimited access to its most advanced language models, including o1 and the Sora video generator, would help replenish the coffers, this does not This is apparently not the case.
Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, said on Sunday that his company is currently losing money on this plan aimed at professionals and heavy users of ChatGPT. “I personally chose the price,” the executive wrote in a series of posts on X, “and thought we would make money.” “Subscribers are using it much more than expected,” he wrote, explaining the reasons for this loss of money. As a reminder, energy-intensive, generative AI models require cutting-edge electronic chips like those from Nvidia, which are very expensive.
The company nevertheless remains optimistic for the future of its accounts, planning to reach a turnover of 100 billion dollars in 2029, reports TechCrunch.
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