OpenAI to Spend $100 Billion on Backup Servers for AI Breakthroughs

When OpenAI in March released ChatGPT features that could turn photos into animated characters, a spike in usage forced the company to put temporary limits on the features.

It wasn’t the first time this had happened. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told investors at a Goldman Sachs conference last week that the company has to regularly hold up launches of new features or AI models because of a shortage of compute capacity, or it purposely has to make some of its products work more slowly. OpenAI is “massively compute constrained,” she said.