ChatGPT Should Reach Billions of Users, OpenAI's Simo Says
OpenAI's incoming head of applications, Fidji Simo, said she sees growing ChatGPT's customer base to billions of users.
'ChatGPT reaches hundreds of millions of people, but fundamentally, AI should change lives for everyone,' Simo said, speaking remotely at VivaTech summit in Paris on Thursday. 'We need to be reaching billions.'
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