Tag: OpenAI

Five AI shopping assistants now decide how millions of people find and buy products online: ChatGPT, Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus), Perplexity, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Over the 2025 holiday season, traffic from AI platforms to retail sites grew nearly 700%, and those shoppers converted at 31% higher rates than visitors from regular […]

OpenAI’s top customer burns 100 billion tokens a month, and Sam Altman just admitted AI costs became a huge issue in 2026. Here’s what changed and how to cut your own AI bill.

Dario Amodei is (1) the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude. (2) a former Vice President of Research at OpenAI who led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3. (3) a Princeton-trained biophysicist with a PhD in neural-circuit electrophysiology. (4) a $7 billion billionaire as of February 2026 per Forbes. (5) the […]

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. An independent 2025 benchmark put Claude Sonnet […]

For the first time since ChatGPT launched, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in US business adoption. Ramp’s April 2026 AI Index, published on May 13, puts Anthropic at 34.4% of tracked enterprise spending versus OpenAI at 32.3%. Anthropic added 3.8 percentage points in a single month while OpenAI fell 2.9. A year ago, OpenAI sat near […]

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a typical chatbot reply. The scary viral ~500 mL “per email” number comes from also counting the electricity supply chain, which is why estimates span more […]

ChatGPT Personal Finance is the biggest expansion of ChatGPT’s role in your daily life since memory, and it’s also the most polarizing. OpenAI launched the Personal Finance preview on May 15, 2026, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the United States only. Plaid powers the bank connections, with support for more than 12,000 banks, brokerages, and […]

How much energy does ChatGPT use? A single query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, roughly what an oven draws in a little over one second. Independent analysis by Epoch AI puts a typical GPT-4o query near 0.3 Wh, about the same as one Google search. The catch is […]

Sam Altman is (1) the CEO of OpenAI, (2) the executive who steered the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, (3) the former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, (4) a billionaire venture investor worth an estimated $2 to $3.3 billion as of May 2026, and (5) one of the most influential people in artificial […]

How much water does ChatGPT use? OpenAI’s own figure, stated by CEO Sam Altman, is about 0.000085 gallons per query, roughly 0.32 mL or one fifteenth of a teaspoon, alongside 0.34 watt-hours of electricity. Independent estimates that count only data-center cooling land a little higher, around 1.5 to 4 mL per prompt. The scary viral […]