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Dresser had already spent more than a decade at Salesforce when
the software pioneer announced in 2020 it was buying
work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion. She helped
integrate Slack into the software company before Salesforce CEO
Marc Benioff picked her as CEO in 2023.
Salesforce said in a statement that it was “grateful for
Denise’s leadership during her 14 years at Salesforce.” Rob
Seaman, Slack's chief product officer, will take over her
responsibilities on an interim basis.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this month set off a “code red”
alert in an internal email to employees to improve its flagship
product, ChatGPT, and delay other product developments.
OpenAI first released ChatGPT just over three years ago,
sparking global fascination and a commercial boom in generative
AI technology and giving the San Francisco-based startup an
early lead. But the company faces increased competition with
rivals, including Google, which last month unleashed Gemini 3,
the latest version of its own AI assistant.
Altman has said ChatGPT now has more than 800 million weekly
users. But the company, valued at $500 billion, doesn’t make a
profit and has committed more than $1 trillion in financial
obligations to the cloud computing providers and chipmakers it
relies on to power its AI systems.
The risk that OpenAI won’t make enough money to fulfill the
expectations of backers like Oracle and Nvidia has amplified
investor concerns about an AI bubble.
OpenAI makes revenue from premium subscriptions to ChatGPT, but
most users get the free version. OpenAI introduced its own web
browser, Atlas, in October, an attempt to compete with Google’s
Chrome as more internet users rely on AI to answer their
questions. But OpenAI hasn’t yet tried to sell ads on ChatGPT,
which is how Google makes money from its dominant search
business.
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