Date: June 27, 2023
According to sources, OpenAI, the world's leading artificial intelligence company, plans to upgrade its ChatGPT chatbot to a product that competes with Microsoft. The plan has attracted a lot of attention against the backdrop of Microsoft's $10 billion investment in OpenAI and its 49% stake.
In the past half year alone, ChatGPT has become one of the most recognizable internet brands worldwide. Now, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman privately revealed that their goal is to make ChatGPT a "super-intelligent personal work assistant" to meet the diverse needs of users at work.
This upgraded assistant will have built-in personal and workplace knowledge, the ability to draft emails, documents, and provide up-to-date information relevant to the business in a user's personal style.
However, the introduction of these features could lead to increased competition between OpenAI and its main business partners, investors and cloud providers Microsoft, as well as OpenAI software customers such as Salesforce. These companies also hope to use OpenAI's software to build artificial intelligence "co-pilots" to help improve work efficiency.
It is worth mentioning that Microsoft not only provides exclusive computing power to OpenAI, but also announced a $10 billion investment in OpenAI earlier this year, becoming one of its shareholders. Under the agreement, Microsoft will receive 75% of OpenAI's profits and hold a 49% stake in OpenAI after recouping the amount invested.
While this unconventional ownership structure raised concerns among early proponents of OpenAI, including well-known entrepreneur Elon Musk, Sam Altman recently said at the Bloomberg Technology Summit that he was pleased with his partnership with Microsoft.
It is understood that for OpenAI, building new ChatGPT features will be a top priority in its commercialization efforts. As OpenAI strives to elevate its chatbot to a fully intelligent personal assistant, they are expected to make even bigger breakthroughs in the competition in the field of artificial intelligence.