OpenAI’s new business model: A finder’s fee for success you found yourself

Amid all the attention trained at the artificial intelligence (AI) conversations in Davos, there is a mild sense of panic among the global AI adopters in particular, who have discovered a post by OpenAI’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar. In the post, Frier seems to suggest that OpenAI is open to the idea of taking a share of customers’ AI-aided discoveries. This comes as the company has repeatedly emphasised the need to open up more revenue streams, including the recent confirmation of in-conversation advertisements within ChatGPT.

“As intelligence moves into scientific research, drug discovery, energy systems, and financial modeling, new economic models will emerge.