Sarah Friar said OpenAI announced that it had 100,000 advertisers on ChatGPT.
“We just announced this morning 100,000 advertisers on the platform.”
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Sarah Friar said OpenAI announced the acquisition of Orchestra Bio, a platform where AI agents and scientists work together to speed drug discovery.
“we announced yesterday the acquisition of a company called Orchestra Bio. And what is that? It's a platform for AI agents and scientists”
Sarah Friar said about 1.2 billion people use ChatGPT every week.
“what does that mean for one point, 2 billion people who use ChatGPT every week? That's a fifth of the world's population.”
Sarah Friar said OpenAI's ChatGPT ads were being offered in 89 countries.
“now offering in eighty-nine different countries.”
Sarah Friar said the Wall Street Journal ran an article about OpenAI's work with PHP maintainers, which began at the end of the summer.
“the journal just ran an article about PHP, where we've been working with them since the end of the summer.”
Sarah Friar said the PHP vulnerabilities OpenAI found could have affected about 70% of websites.
“So about 70% of websites would have been impacted, would have brought down probably a lot of the internet.”
Sarah Friar said OpenAI recently held back its most powerful model as part of what it calls pacing the frontier.
“we have paced the frontier most recently by actually holding back our most powerful model.”
Sarah Friar said the withheld OpenAI model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium math problem and advanced about 350 more theorems.
“That model is the model that solved the Navi Stokes Millennium Math problem, and also about 350 more theorems have certainly moved along.”
Sarah Friar said a data center with closed-loop cooling uses about 300 households' worth of water per year, roughly two Olympic swimming pools.
“It's about two Olympic swimming pool sizes, by the way, for a data center, particularly one with a closed loop cooling system that uses about, um, 300 households worth of water per year.”
Sarah Friar said about a third of ChatGPT's weekly users ask a health or wellness question.
“about a third ask ChatGPT a health or wellness question every week.”
Sarah Friar said Boston Children's Hospital gave OpenAI data on over 300 unresolved diseases, and OpenAI's work had reached answers for about 40.
“In Boston Children's Hospital, they gave us genetic data, diagnostic data, scientific literature, and today, I think they gave us something like 300 plus not yet resolved diseases to try to resolve. And today we've gotten to forty”
Sarah Friar said an OpenAI proof of concept showed HCA, described as the largest US hospital chain, that patient time in hospital could be reduced by 25%.
“we just did a proof of concept that showed HCA, which is the largest in the US, that we could speed the time a patient spends in hospital, lowering it by 25%.”
Sarah Friar said a news report described hackers breaching a French supermarket chain's systems and raising freezer temperatures, spoiling frozen goods.
“one of the news reports was a a supermarket chain in France where hackers had gotten into their systems and turned up the temperature on their freezers, spoiling all of the frozen goods.”
Sarah Friar said OpenAI economic research found frontier firms use about eight times as many agentic tokens as the average firm, up from about two times in January.
“The frontier firms that we define as kind of the top ten of companies in the world, the number of agentic tokens they're using today versus even just an average firm is about eight x, and that number's gone from about two x back in January.”
Sarah Friar said OpenAI's own agentic token use is 33 times that of frontier firms.
“So if you were to look at our agentic token use, it's thirty three x the frontier.”
Sarah Friar said OpenAI announced it was live on Google Cloud Platform, so its products are available on Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle.
“we just announced this morning we're live on GCP, on Google, so we now can meet our customers on every cloud that exists”
Sarah Friar said Ireland currently held the presidency of the European Union, which was why she met the Taoiseach in Dublin.
“Ireland right now has the presidency of the EU.”
Sarah Friar said that of the frontier firms OpenAI sees, only a small share are based in Europe.
“In that top ten of frontier firms that we see, only ten of them are European-based.”
Sarah Friar said people with finance job titles do only about a quarter of their ChatGPT tasks in finance, with another quarter in engineering and a quarter in marketing.
“if you show up with a finance job title today on our platform, you do about twenty five of your tasks on ChatGPT that are truly financial.”
Sarah Friar said Lynda.ai, built by two sisters in Dublin to clone their father's dental receptionist, produced 250 new scheduled patients within three days.
“Lynda dot ai had 250 new scheduled patients coming in.”
Sarah Friar said OpenAI gave a Georgia community an $80 million grant to spend over five years near a planned data center site.
“What we've done is given the community 80 million grant that they can deploy over five years”
Sarah Friar said AI is probably adding about one percentage point to US GDP growth.
“in totality, AI is probably adding about a point to GDP, depending on how you cut it.”
Sarah Friar says GPT-3 could handle roughly a 5-second task and GPT-4 roughly a 5-minute task.
“GPT three could handle maybe a 5 s task, GPT four could probably handle a 5 min task.”
Sarah Friar says OpenAI's o1 model is starting to tackle really complex tasks that can run for hours or days.
“And with O1, now we're starting to be on the cusp of tackling really complex tasks.”
Sarah Friar says OpenAI's controller uses ChatGPT to unify data and code accounts-payable invoices, which shortens the financial close.
“Using things like ChatGPT to unify data from different sources, she's using it to code AP invoices, so it shortens our close, actually, which is something all controllers think about.”
Sarah Friar says OpenAI's finance team held a hackathon within her first couple of weeks at the company to find tasks AI could speed up.
“we did a hackathon within the 1st couple of weeks of me being here.”
Sarah Friar says OpenAI built an investor-relations custom GPT fed with past diligence answers and its management presentation, and told it not to use outside sources.
“We took the time to tell it, don't go external for answers, because there's a lot of fake news written about the company.”
Sarah Friar says she had done over 81 one-on-one meetings in her first three months at OpenAI.
“I think I've done over 81 on ones now in my 1st kind of three months here.”
Sarah Friar says Nextdoor, while she was CEO, was among the first companies to use OpenAI's API to rephrase potentially hurtful remarks.
“we were one of the 1st companies when I was CEO of Nextdoor to take the API actually from OpenAI and use it to help rephrase remarks that could be perceived as hurtful.”
Sarah Friar says Minnesota uses ChatGPT to translate for non-English-speaking immigrants, saving hours of staff time and hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly.
“And in cutting down all that translation, they're literally saving hours of people's time, hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost monthly.”
Sarah Friar says Morgan Stanley uses OpenAI technology in wealth management to summarize video meetings and draft follow-up emails.
“They're using it in wealth management to summarize video meetings and really generate draft follow up emails, and suddenly all of that becomes automated.”
Sarah Friar says Klarna built a digital shopping assistant on OpenAI's API that helps customers find products at the best prices.
“Clarna has been really well documented in the press because they've been very loud and proud about how their new digital shopping assistant built on our API is helping customers find the right products at the best prices.”
Sarah Friar says Mercado Libre's CTO told an OpenAI event that the company uses ChatGPT to autonomously manage customer-service decisions.
“Mercado Libre was actually at our event last week, so I got to actually hear their CTO say to the whole crowd how they're using ChatGPT to autonomously manage customer service decisions.”
Sarah Friar says OpenAI launched new reasoning models called o1 preview and o1 mini.
“we have launched a new set of models with reasoning capabilities, so o1 preview, o1 mini”
Sarah Friar says the idea for what became Ladies Who Launch began with an International Women's Day event for Square sellers soon after she joined Square.
“when I 1st joined Square for International Women's Day, we wanted to do something a little special.”
Sarah Friar says Jack Dorsey was the keynote speaker at the first Square event for women and non-binary sellers.
“Jack Dorsey is going to be our keynote, everyone wants to talk to Jack.”
Sarah Friar says Jo Malone, who spoke at a Ladies Who Launch event in London, lost her sense of smell for about a year and a half during chemotherapy.
“she actually had cancer and in getting chemo, her sense of smell went away for about a year and a half.”
Sarah Friar says ChatGPT told her, when she asked what she might not know about herself, that growing up in Northern Ireland still shapes her.
“how much growing up in Northern Ireland still continues to shape the person you are today.”
Sarah Friar says she took a year out before university to work at an accounting firm, where she manually checked accounts-payable invoices.
“I actually took a year out before university and worked for an accounting firm.”
Sarah Friar says she rowed at university and always sat in the seven seat of the eight-person boat.
“I was always the 7 seat, and the the 7 seat has a really interesting place in the boat.”