OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hosted hundreds of executives from Fortune 500 companies in San Francisco, New York and London this month to present artificial intelligence services for corporate use, in some cases competing with its financial backer Microsoft. said attendees Reuters.
These events illustrate how the company, which is credited with the explosion of generative artificial intelligence with its consumer offering, is seeking new sources of revenue from companies around the world, some of them potentially in the territory of its largest partner.
The three meetings with senior company executives – two in the United States last week and one in London on Monday – had not been previously reported.
Altman spoke directly to more than 100 executives in each city, according to aides who spoke on condition of anonymity.
At each event, Altman and COO Brad Lightcap offered demonstrations of products such as ChatGPT Enterprise, the enterprise version of their famous chatbot that generates text from simple instructions, software for connecting customer applications to their AI services known as API, and its new text-to-video conversion models.
OpenAI has promised that ChatGPT Enterprise customer data will not be used to train its models.
When speaking to potential customers in industries such as finance, healthcare, and energy, OpenAI leaders highlighted a number of applications, such as call center management and translation. They noted that more than 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies already use the consumer version of their chatbot.
Microsoft MSFT.O, the largest investor in OpenAI, offers access to OpenAI technology through its Azure cloud and through the sale of Microsoft 365 Copilot, a productivity tool based on OpenAI models aimed at enterprises.
Some executives at the events asked why they should pay for ChatGPT Enterprise if they are already Microsoft customers, according to attendees.
Altman and Lightcap responded that paying for the enterprise service allowed them to work directly with the OpenAI team, have access to the latest models, and more opportunities to get custom AI products, according to attendees present.
OpenAI and Microsoft declined to comment.
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