During a fireside chat at SXSW2024, Peter Deng, OpenAI's vice president and head of consumer and enterprise products, said OpenAI will always offer a free version of ChatGPT, a decision made in keeping with OpenAI's mission to help humanity. The free version of ChatGPT will be funded through sales of the service to businesses, Deng said, and the functionality of the version will be enhanced over time. This approach is similar to that of tech giants such as Google and Meta, which offer their products for free to the world and to a wide...