OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, is leveraging the company’s own ChatGPT chatbot for both personal and professional tasks, from generating a tilapia recipe for dinner to streamlining her workday by summarising emails and Slack messages. This dual application underscores a strategic pivot for OpenAI, with executives, including Ms Friar, increasingly focusing on business-oriented AI products as a route to profitability, moving away from certain consumer offerings.
The company is poised to unveil a new artificial intelligence model specifically designed for "high-value professional work". This launch comes amid intensifying competition with rival firm Anthropic, as both vie to attract corporate clients to integrate AI assistants into their operations.
