Alex Kantrowitz

Yeah, Davos is very weird this year because for a number of reasons.

First of all, we're in Europe at a moment where President Trump is threatening to take over Greenland.

So obviously some awkwardness there as he's about to hit the WEF summit.

But also we're in this moment where

Companies for a long time used this conference as a place to talk about their altruism.

And over the past couple of years, we've definitely seen much more of a shift towards the naked interest in the bottom line.

So they've tried to worm their way back into that socially good messaging, mostly by talking about how AI will get us there.

There are 48 sessions at the WEF about artificial intelligence, where people are going to talk about it, being able to cure cancer and empower the disempowered.

We'll see if the message gets across.

Is that right?

Look, I think that when you think about the most skeptical perspective of this, which I've seen come across the social feeds in reaction to it, some have said, hey, listen, you're using AI.

You're about to, you know, if you really believe that you're close to artificial general intelligence and disrupting the

you know the way that we work and these big breakthroughs uh then why are you resorting to the sort of crude as possible uh form of business on the internet which is advertising is that an indication that you don't really believe in uh what you've been telling us uh this this time um clearly i think there's a couple things that are that are happening here first of all it's the imperative for growth

The ad tier is going to give people more access to OpenAI's models, so you'll be able to chat a little bit more.

I think there's a hope that that will bring more people in.

It seems to me there was an interest in getting towards a billion weekly active users.

By the end of the year, I've heard some rumblings of that.

They fell short.

They're at $800 million now.

And especially as we gear up towards an IPO potentially, I think that will happen next year.