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Key FactsOpenAI outlines ChatGPT’s planned advertising platform
Sep 8, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: businessinsider.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: businessinsider.com
- At Goldman Sachs' conference in San Francisco, CFO Sarah Friar described ChatGPT as combining Google's search intent with Meta's user context.
- After seven months of ads, OpenAI's business was running at a rate Friar said would equal $1 billion annually.
- Basic ads currently appear beneath responses for free and Go subscribers; Friar expects more complex, tailored formats in future.
- OpenAI's advertising focus contrasts with Sam Altman's 2024 statement that combining advertising and AI was uniquely unsettling.
It's high intent search, you're telling a lot, but with the context — it's not quite people like me, it's me, because it has all the memory of me.— Sarah Friar, OpenAI's Chief Financial Officer, speaking at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco
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