This means that the number of users who are active at least once a month has doubled since November last year, according to the developer company OpenAI. ChatGPT is the chatbot that sparked the hype about artificial intelligence over a year ago. Such AI programs are trained with huge amounts of information and can formulate texts at the linguistic level of a human, write software code and summarize information. The principle behind it is that they estimate word by word how a sentence should continue.
Nvidia could also invest in ChatGPT
According to media reports, OpenAI is currently in the process of raising fresh capital in a financing round with a total valuation of around 100 billion dollars. Potential investors are said to include Apple and the semiconductor company Nvidia. Both companies could be very important partners for the future of ChatGPT. The iPhone company brought OpenAI on board as a partner in June. While in-house AI software is intended for users’ personal information, ChatGPT is intended to be available for general questions. The iPhone platform should therefore bring many new users to the chatbot.
Chips play a central role in AI
Nvidia’s chips, on the other hand, play a central role in data centers for applications using artificial intelligence. They are expensive and their next generation, called Blackwell, will only be available in small quantities, at least after its market launch in the coming months. So far, Microsoft is by far the largest investor in ChatGPT. OpenAI used the billions from the software giant to finance the further development of the chatbot. Microsoft is now integrating the start-up’s technology into all of its products.
