ChatGPT has investors drooling, but can it bring home the bacon?
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When ChatGPT-the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI-was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its responses included: It is likely that its worth is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more."
Microsoft, which is rumored to be weighing a $10 billion investment in OpenAI on top of an earlier $1 billion commitment, is betting that the company is worth a lot more-despite the fact neither ChatGPT nor other AI models made by OpenAI are yet raking in huge amounts of cash. OpenAI has built several impressive and attention-grabbing demos and powers a popular autocomplete function for coders offered by Microsoft's GitHub. But despite the hype swirling around its technology, the startup hasn't created a breakout, highly lucrative product or business.