
OpenAI上周二宣布,已选定Slack首席执行官丹妮丝·德雷瑟担任其首任营收主管。此举向持谨慎态度的投资者传递了一个信息:这家ChatGPT的创造者正认真致力于从其AI技术中盈利。
OpenAI表示,德雷瑟将负责全球营收战略,并“帮助更多企业在日常运营中应用AI”。
当软件先驱赛富时在2020年宣布以277亿美元收购工作聊天服务Slack时,德雷瑟已在赛富时工作超过十年。在赛富时首席执行官马克·贝尼奥夫(Marc Benioff)于2023年任命她为Slack首席执行官之前,她帮助将Slack整合到这家软件公司中。
赛富时在一份声明中表示,“感谢丹妮丝在赛富时14年任职期间的领导。”Slack首席产品官罗伯·西曼(Rob Seaman)将临时接替她的职责。
OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼(Sam Altman)本月早些时候在一封致员工的内部邮件中拉响了“红色警报”,要求改进其旗舰产品ChatGPT,并推迟其他产品开发。
OpenAI于三年多前首次发布ChatGPT,引发了全球对生成式AI技术的痴迷和商业热潮,并使这家总部位于旧金山的初创公司获得了早期领先优势。但该公司面临来自竞争对手日益激烈的竞争,包括谷歌(Google)——该公司上个月发布了其自有AI助手的最新版本Gemini 3。
奥尔特曼曾表示,ChatGPT目前拥有超过8亿周活跃用户。但这家估值5000亿美元的公司并未盈利,并且已承诺向其AI系统所依赖的云计算提供商和芯片制造商支付超过1万亿美元的财务款项。
OpenAI可能无法赚取足够资金以满足甲骨文(Oracle)和英伟达(Nvidia)等支持者期望的风险,加剧了投资者对AI泡沫的担忧。
OpenAI通过ChatGPT的高级订阅服务获得收入,但大多数用户使用的是免费版本。随着越来越多的互联网用户依赖AI来回答问题,OpenAI于10月推出了自己的网页浏览器Atlas,试图与谷歌的Chrome竞争。但OpenAI尚未尝试在ChatGPT上销售广告,而谷歌正是通过其占据主导地位的搜索业务以此赚钱。(*)
译者:中慧言-王芳
OpenAI上周二宣布,已选定Slack首席执行官丹妮丝·德雷瑟担任其首任营收主管。此举向持谨慎态度的投资者传递了一个信息:这家ChatGPT的创造者正认真致力于从其AI技术中盈利。
OpenAI表示,德雷瑟将负责全球营收战略,并“帮助更多企业在日常运营中应用AI”。
当软件先驱赛富时在2020年宣布以277亿美元收购工作聊天服务Slack时,德雷瑟已在赛富时工作超过十年。在赛富时首席执行官马克·贝尼奥夫(Marc Benioff)于2023年任命她为Slack首席执行官之前,她帮助将Slack整合到这家软件公司中。
赛富时在一份声明中表示,“感谢丹妮丝在赛富时14年任职期间的领导。”Slack首席产品官罗伯·西曼(Rob Seaman)将临时接替她的职责。
OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼(Sam Altman)本月早些时候在一封致员工的内部邮件中拉响了“红色警报”,要求改进其旗舰产品ChatGPT,并推迟其他产品开发。
OpenAI于三年多前首次发布ChatGPT,引发了全球对生成式AI技术的痴迷和商业热潮,并使这家总部位于旧金山的初创公司获得了早期领先优势。但该公司面临来自竞争对手日益激烈的竞争,包括谷歌(Google)——该公司上个月发布了其自有AI助手的最新版本Gemini 3。
奥尔特曼曾表示,ChatGPT目前拥有超过8亿周活跃用户。但这家估值5000亿美元的公司并未盈利,并且已承诺向其AI系统所依赖的云计算提供商和芯片制造商支付超过1万亿美元的财务款项。
OpenAI可能无法赚取足够资金以满足甲骨文(Oracle)和英伟达(Nvidia)等支持者期望的风险,加剧了投资者对AI泡沫的担忧。
OpenAI通过ChatGPT的高级订阅服务获得收入,但大多数用户使用的是免费版本。随着越来越多的互联网用户依赖AI来回答问题,OpenAI于10月推出了自己的网页浏览器Atlas,试图与谷歌的Chrome竞争。但OpenAI尚未尝试在ChatGPT上销售广告,而谷歌正是通过其占据主导地位的搜索业务以此赚钱。(*)
译者:中慧言-王芳
OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology.
OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy and “help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations.”
Dresser had already spent more than a decade at Salesforce when the software pioneer announced in 2020 it was buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion. She helped integrate Slack into the software company before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff picked her as CEO in 2023.
Salesforce said in a statement that it was “grateful for Denise’s leadership during her 14 years at Salesforce.” Rob Seaman, Slack’s chief product officer, will take over her responsibilities on an interim basis.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this month set off a “code red” alert in an internal email to employees to improve its flagship product, ChatGPT, and delay other product developments.
OpenAI first released ChatGPT just over three years ago, sparking global fascination and a commercial boom in generative AI technology and giving the San Francisco-based startup an early lead. But the company faces increased competition with rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed Gemini 3, the latest version of its own AI assistant.
Altman has said ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly users. But the company, valued at $500 billion, doesn’t make a profit and has committed more than $1 trillion in financial obligations to the cloud computing providers and chipmakers it relies on to power its AI systems.
The risk that OpenAI won’t make enough money to fulfill the expectations of backers like Oracle and Nvidia has amplified investor concerns about an AI bubble.
OpenAI makes revenue from premium subscriptions to ChatGPT, but most users get the free version. OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, in October, an attempt to compete with Google’s Chrome as more internet users rely on AI to answer their questions. But OpenAI hasn’t yet tried to sell ads on ChatGPT, which is how Google makes money from its dominant search business.
