OpenAI's ad push explained in one chart

Sam Altman and OpenAI are getting serious. They're dropping sidequests like Sora, and trying to catch up to rival Anthropic, which has a booming business selling tools to coders.But OpenAI still wants to make money from people who will never give it a dime. It wants to do that by showing them ads. And this chart from analysts at MoffettNathanson explains why: ChatGPT has lots of users, but only a sliver of them are paying for the service. The rest could see ads.  MoffettNathanson It's a simple argumen ...