OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has solidified his control over the company by securing a significant deal with Apple. This partnership could potentially be worth billions of dollars to the startup if it proves successful. The deal involves the use of OpenAI’s conversational artificial intelligence in Apple’s products.
This partnership not only brings a potential financial windfall but also has the potential to boost OpenAI’s position within the tech industry over the long term. Altman and his colleagues hope that the Apple partnership might one day replace a longstanding alliance Apple has with Google, OpenAI’s main rival.
The financial arrangement between Google and Apple for default search is both simple and lucrative. Google makes money showing ads in search results. Safari drives a large number of users to Google search. Google pays Apple roughly $20 billion per year for that traffic acquisition while selling ads worth many tens of billions of dollars for those searches.
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