OpenAI names Slack CEO Dresser as first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit

OpenAI has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser arsenic its archetypal main of revenue

SAN FRANCISCO -- OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser arsenic its archetypal main of revenue, a connection to wary investors that the ChatGPT shaper is superior astir making a nett from its artificial quality technology.

OpenAI said Dresser volition oversee planetary gross strategy and “will assistance much businesses enactment AI to enactment successful their day-to-day operations.”

Dresser had already spent much than a decennary astatine Salesforce erstwhile the bundle pioneer announced successful 2020 it was buying work-chatting work Slack for $27.7 billion. She helped integrate Slack into the bundle institution earlier Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff picked her arsenic CEO successful 2023.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this period acceptable disconnected a “code red” alert successful an interior email to employees to amended its flagship product, ChatGPT, and hold different merchandise developments.

OpenAI archetypal released its flagship merchandise conscionable implicit 3 years ago, sparking planetary fascination and a commercialized roar successful generative AI exertion and giving the San Francisco-based startup an aboriginal lead. But the institution faces accrued contention with rivals, including Google, which past period unleashed Gemini 3, the latest mentation of its ain AI assistant.

Altman said this autumn that ChatGPT present has much than 800 cardinal play users. But the company, valued astatine $500 billion, doesn’t marque a nett and has committed much than $1 trillion successful fiscal obligations to the unreality computing providers and chipmakers it relies connected to powerfulness its AI systems.

The hazard that OpenAI won’t marque capable wealth to fulfill the expectations of backers similar Oracle and Nvidia has amplified capitalist concerns astir an AI bubble.

OpenAI makes gross from premium subscriptions to ChatGPT, but astir users get the escaped version. OpenAI introduced its ain web browser, Atlas, successful October, an effort to vie with Google’s Chrome arsenic much net users trust connected AI to reply their questions. But OpenAI hasn’t yet tried to merchantability ads connected ChatGPT, which is however Google makes wealth from its ascendant hunt business.

Altman’s aboriginal December memo said the institution was delaying enactment connected advertising, AI agents for wellness and shopping, and a idiosyncratic adjunct called Pulse.

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