OpenAI CFO Sees Firm Selling AI Infrastructure Service in Future

OpenAI is considering eventually helping other businesses tap into the data centers and physical infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence, potentially creating a new revenue line that could offset some of the ChatGPT maker’s immense costs.

The service would be loosely inspired by the success Amazon.com Inc. found renting out its spare cloud computing capacity to companies, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said in an interview Wednesday. OpenAI is not “actively looking” at such an effort today because it’s focused on securing computing capacity for its own operations, she said. But “I do think about it as a business down ...