The huge cost of providing ChatGPT services threatens the future of OpenAI

OpenAI apparently pays a huge fee to keep ChatGPT active and serve users of this chatbot on a daily basis. This issue has caused this company to be exposed to a financial crisis and may even face the risk of bankruptcy in the future.

According to a report by Analytics India Magazine, the company OpenAI About 700 thousand dollars a day ChatGPT charges for providing services. Although the chatbot has seen a lot of success in recent months, it seems that it has yet to generate enough revenue to cover its costs.

This report says number of users OpenAI has also been gradually declining in recent months. According to SimilarWeb, the number of users visiting the ChatGPT website dropped by about 12% in July compared to June. This amount has increased from 1.7 billion to 1.5 billion, but does not include the company’s API users.

Of course, the OpenAI company’s API is also supported by some open source language models such as LLaMA 2, which are free to use and manipulate, with Heavy competition faced These open source models can be customized and manipulated unlike the paid, closed and proprietary model of OpenAI.

Sam Altman has fallen out with OpenAI staff

This report says that between “Sam Altman” (CEO of OpenAI) and other members of this team differences it has been created. While the company has focused on profitability and developing more advanced versions of GPT, Altman has been busy emphasizing the dangers and risks of artificial intelligence.

Despite Altman’s concerns about the product he created, OpenAI has been working on new ways to monetize GPT-4. However, they have not yet reached profitability, and since the development of ChatGPT, approx 540 million dollars loss have brought

The company had previously projected annual revenue of $200 million in 2023 and $1 billion in 2024; But these numbers seem very unattainable now. OpenAI currently with option IPO Or it is facing selling itself to another technology company.

On the other hand, this company in Maintaining human resources He also failed with his talent; Many OpenAI employees have left the company in recent months for other companies active in the field of artificial intelligence.

In general, factors such as unstable economic conditions, decrease in the number of users, decline in product quality, and even limited access to hardware necessary to maintain the stability of services are among the reasons that put the future of OpenAI in an aura of uncertainty. This company must now seriously look for a way to generate income so that it can secure its future and not lose more employees.