Here is Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, talking about their business model (31:26 – 32:13)

https://youtu.be/TzcJlKg2Rc0?t=1886

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When asked about how the business model is going to work, he replies:

“The honest answer is that we have no idea. We have never made any revenue. We have no current plans to make revenue. We have no idea about how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we build this sort-of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return.”