Chinese investors and serial entrepreneursKai-Fu LeeRecently, he said that he is optimistic about OpenAI Become a trillion dollar company in two to three years.
“OpenAI could very well become a trillion-dollar company in the near future (two to three years),” Kai-Fu Lee said in a recent interview with Fortune. “I am very optimistic about the future of OpenAI. They really have done an admirable and incredible job. Even today, GPT-4 is still the gold standard. You see, Gemini Ultra and Claude3 both claim to be so, but if you use these models, GPT-4 and GPT-4Turbo perform incredibly well and strike a good balance between performance and cost,” he added.
Despite his concerns about OpenAI's lack of openness, he still admires them. He said: "If I could invest in any one of Microsoft, Google and OpenAI, which I can't, but if I could, I would choose OpenAI."
Last March, Kai-Fu Lee launched 01.AI, which aims to develop a local large-scale language model for the Chinese market. Surprisingly, unlike OpenAI, it chose the open source path.
OpenAI recently published itsup to dateGPT-4o was released at OpenAI’s spring update event, winning praise for its “all-around” capabilities in text, vision, and audio. OpenAI’s demos, which included a real-time translator, a coding assistant, an AI tutor, a friendly companion, a poet, and a singer, quickly became a hot topic.
OpenAI has made GPT-4o available for free. Altman said: "We are a commercial company and will find many projects that we can charge for, which will help us provide free excellent artificial intelligence services to (hopefully) billions of people."
Altman said they have not yet found a way to make expensive technology like GPT-4 available to users for free. He emphasized that while their mission is to make technology free or affordable,lowestCost: Advanced AI tools are available, but high expenses are currently a significant barrier.
OpenAI hit a $2 billion revenue milestone in December, according to a report from the Financial Times, and expects to double that number by 2025, driven by strong interest from corporate clients in implementing generative AI tools, the report states.