OpenAI is one of the leaders in the field of generative artificial intelligence. According to Fortune, in 2022 the company earned about $35 million. In 2023, OpenAI expects revenue of $200 million, and in 2024 it predicts to reach $1 billion revenue. The company sees its ChatGPT language model as the main source of income. Recently OpenAI announced the launch of a paid premium version of "ChatGPT Professional". It will include an unlimited number of messages, the constant availability of the service and other bonuses. The company explained that it intends to start monetizing ChatGPT.
Today, OpenAI's revenue mainly consists of the sale of APIs and tokens, which are used, for example, to convert text to an image by the DALL-E service.
According to Fortune, a new round of funding for OpenAI is planned in the near future: presumably, Microsoft and several venture funds will invest more than $10 billion in the company. Microsoft is a leading partner and investor in OpenAI, in 2019 it has already invested $1 billion in the company and plans to use its developments in their products. In turn, OpenAI, thanks to this partnership, has access to Microsoft data centers, which is very important, since the company's main expenses are in cloud computing power.