Generative AI big year meant profit for Nvidia, experiments elsewhere
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023.Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted that he was surprised by the popularity of ChatGPT, which was released as a research project a little more than a year ago. His team had spent an entire meeting debating whether it was worth even opening up the chatbot to the public.As it turns out, OpenAI's decision to launch ChatGPT in November 2022 became the defining moment for generative…