"In a post on X, Tibor Blaho, an engineer at AIPRM who has found leaks like these in the past, showed some coding from the ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta. It includes "new references to an 'ads feature' with 'bazaar content,' 'search ad' and 'search ads carousel.'""
"However, the company is still not profitable. According to a report from HSBC, OpenAI won't make money until 2030, and the company needs to find an extra $207 billion to power its growth plans in the meantime, Forbes reported."
"'I'm not totally against it. I can point to areas where I like ads. I think ads on Instagram, kinda cool. I bought a bunch of stuff from them. But I am, like, I think it'd be very hard to...I mean, take a lot of care to get right,' Altman said at the time."
Coding from the ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta contains references to an ads feature labeled with 'bazaar content,' 'search ad' and 'search ads carousel.' If implemented, the free ChatGPT app would display ads alongside responses. ChatGPT has favored revenue from subscriptions to ChatGPT Pro and API access rather than advertising. OpenAI remains unprofitable; an HSBC report projects profitability only by 2030 and estimates an additional $207 billion needed to support growth. Sam Altman said advertising products have not been launched but are not off the table, noting roughly 800 million weekly users and the need to handle ads carefully. A lawsuit from Ziff Davis alleges copyright infringement.
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