In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Within the next three days, nearly all of the company’s employees said they’d walk out the door, and the fate of OpenAI looked extremely uncertain.
Entire businesses have been built on top of OpenAI and its APIs.
According to an O’Reilly survey released late last month, 23% of companies are using one of OpenAI’s models. Its closest commercial competitor, Google’s Bard, is far behind, with just 1% of the market. Other respondents said they aren’t using any generative AI models, are building their own, or are using an open-source alternative.
