Dark cloud over ChatGPT revolution: the cost
The explosion of generative AI has taken the world by storm, but one question all too rarely comes up: Who can afford it?OpenAI bled around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and says it needs $100 billion to meet its ambitions, according to industry media The Information. "We're going to be the most capital-intensive startup in Silicon Valley history," OpenAI's founder Sam Altman told a panel recently. And when Microsoft, which poured billions of dollars in investment into OpenAI, is asked about how much its…