Sources say OpenAI's losses doubled to $540 million in 2022 due to the high cost of developing ChatGPT and labor

Thank you, Mr. Air, a netizen of CTOnews.com, for your clue delivery! On May 5, according to foreign media reports, three people familiar with OpenAI's financial situation revealed that because OpenAI developed the chat robot ChatGPT last year and poached key employees from Google, the company's loss nearly doubled last year to about $540 million (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 3.731 billion yuan).

Tuyuan PexelsOpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research company co-founded in 2015 by Silicon Valley technology tycoons such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk), Altman, president of Y Combinator, and Peter Tier, co-founder of global online payment platform PayPal. It focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) technology applications and is famous for artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E 2.

ChatGPT is a new AI chat robot tool launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022, which can quickly generate articles, stories, lyrics, essays, jokes, and even code according to users' requirements, and answer all kinds of questions.

There is no doubt that large artificial intelligence language models are an expensive business, but it is unclear how much it will cost to build them.

At the same time, foreign media said that part of the cost of OpenAI also comes from hiring professionals from well-known companies such as Apple and Google.

Earlier, in March, OpenAI poached artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Devlin from Google. Devlin tried to warn Google not to use ChatGPT data to train its AI chatbot Bard because it violated OpenAI's terms of service and Bard's answer looked too similar to ChatGPT's answer.