OpenAI Aims to Lure Businesses From Anthropic

While OpenAI’s younger rival Anthropic is winning over business customers, OpenAI is trying to convince companies it’s more than a consumer chatbot.

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar.

Some of OpenAI’s most attention-grabbing efforts over the past year have involved products for consumers, from a social app to an AI-powered device it plans to announce later this year. Last week, though, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, gathered Disney CEO Bob Iger and other corporate executives in San Francisco to deliver a message: OpenAI is serious about catering to business customers.

Over a lavish multicourse dinner accompanied by fine wines, Altman told attendees OpenAI could be a one-stop shop for all their AI needs, from ChatGPT to its coding tool, Codex, to its models for automating workflows, said a person with knowledge of the company’s plans.