It won’t turn customers and investors away.

The Economist, “OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet,” 03-06-2024, https://www.economist.com/business/2024/03/06/openais-legal-battles-are-not-putting-off-customers-yet

So far such legal hurdles are not putting off customers and investors. According to SimilarWeb, a data firm, Openai clocked 1.6bn visits to its mobile app and website in February, five times what Gemini, Google’s rival ai, has managed. Surveys of large companies invariably find Openai and Microsoft to be the most popular purveyors of ai tools. In December Openai was making an annualised revenue of $2bn, up from virtually nothing the year before. Venture capitalists report that the startups they back see its models as best on price and performance. This week it emerged that Temasek, a Singaporean sovereign-wealth fund, wants a stake in the firm.