OpenAI to recast hit chatbot as a route to higher-margin products before a potential IPO.
OpenAI is preparing the biggest overhaul of ChatGPT since its launch kicked off the AI boom, as the $850 billion group hunts for new engines of growth ahead of a planned listing this year.
The company intends to transform the chatbot into a “superapp” that combines coding tools and AI agents, adding products that executives believe will generate more revenue.
The changes are part of a broader reorganization at OpenAI as the San Francisco-based company shifts resources into trying to win lucrative business customers and compete more fiercely with rival Anthropic, according to more than a dozen current and former employees.
OpenAI faces growing pressure to drive revenues higher and forge a path to profitability, as it prepares for an initial public offering.
The strategy marks a departure for a company, led by chief executive Sam Altman, that became the face of the AI boom and took the technology mainstream when it unveiled ChatGPT in 2022.
The changes, which will give greater prominence and resources to OpenAI’s coding product Codex, reflect a growing conviction within the company that the future of AI lies not in chatbots that answer questions but in agents that perform tasks for users.
“Chat is dead,” said one senior OpenAI employee.
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will they introduce dopamine addiction by doomscroling into their product? Sure or yep?
The pivot before the IPO
Took them long enough to figure that out. But I guess they too had to learn that MAU isn't everything. The Facebook way is passé anyway - it only serves to confuse VCs.
However, implementations that do chat well can take the moat now. Like Grok.
@elon: when you read this, think about all the people that are going to be upset when chatgpt inevitably enshittifies to the max.hahahaha