Tech CEO spends $3000 a month on ChatGPT for all employees
Akash Nigam, CEO of Genies, a web3 avatar start-up, has supposedly spent a minimum of $2400 per month on ChatGPT plus subscriptions for all 120 employees in the company, according to receipts obtained by Insider. The CEO started promoting the chatbot to employees in various departments, ranging from finance to engineering to research and design, starting in March. Nigam believes that the use of ChatGPT will assist in automating tedious tasks and will help increase company profits.
Nigam told Insider that the company’s R&D has been using ChatGPT to debug code. Meanwhile, the AI has reduced brainstorming hours for company strategy. The research suggests that 14% of employees who incorporated ChatGPT in their workflow saw an increase in productivity. ChatGPT appears to be the most useful tool that the company has integrated into its workflow.
Although Nigam is paying $2400 per month for ChatGPT from OpenAI, there have been clever alternatives. A European computer science student named Xtekky has created a GitHub repository called GPT4Free, which allows users to access ChatGPT plus for free by directing requests through websites such as You.com and Quora. However, OpenAI has threatened Xtekky with legal action if he doesn't delete the project from GitHub.
As more research is conducted, AI like ChatGPT could be an additional tool in various workplaces, assisting with task completion. Despite this, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has disclosed that they will not release ChatGPT-5 anytime soon.
