似乎山姆·奥特曼刚刚斥资超过1,500万美元,收购了一个4个字母的域名。
周三,OpenAI的CEO奥特曼发布了一条推文,里面是一个简单的网址chat.com,现在这是公司旗舰人工智能工具ChatGPT的新网址。
这个新域名之前的所有者是客户关系管理平台HubSpot的联合创始人达梅什·沙阿,他2023年在LinkedIn上写道,他为此支付了“八位数”的金额。
当时,沙阿写道“这是我参与过的最昂贵的域名交易”,他表示之所以购买这个域名,是因为他相信基于聊天的软件是下一个大趋势。他还补充道,他不会将这个域名用于自己的公司,如果有买家,他会卖掉它。
沙阿当时写道:“chat.com这个域名非常简洁短小,完全*切中要点*,并且符合当前的需求。”
但仅仅几个月后,沙阿表示他已经卖掉了这个域名,但没有透露买家的身份。他当时表示,他把出售域名赚到的250,000美元捐给了非营利教育组织可汗学院(Khan Academy)。
在奥特曼发布推文后,沙阿确认OpenAI购买了这个域名。他曾表示他当时购买这个域名的价格是1,550万美元。至于OpenAI为这个域名支付的价格,沙阿故意含糊其辞。
在一篇带有戏谑意味的ChatGPT风格的帖子中,沙阿似乎暗示他没有从出售域名中获利,并且可能获得了OpenAI的部分股份。他在类似提示的段落中表示,他认识奥特曼已有10年时间,而且他不喜欢从朋友身上获利。
OpenAI没有立即回应《财富》杂志的置评请求。(财富中文网)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
似乎山姆·奥特曼刚刚斥资超过1,500万美元,收购了一个4个字母的域名。
周三,OpenAI的CEO奥特曼发布了一条推文,里面是一个简单的网址chat.com,现在这是公司旗舰人工智能工具ChatGPT的新网址。
这个新域名之前的所有者是客户关系管理平台HubSpot的联合创始人达梅什·沙阿,他2023年在LinkedIn上写道,他为此支付了“八位数”的金额。
当时,沙阿写道“这是我参与过的最昂贵的域名交易”,他表示之所以购买这个域名,是因为他相信基于聊天的软件是下一个大趋势。他还补充道,他不会将这个域名用于自己的公司,如果有买家,他会卖掉它。
沙阿当时写道:“chat.com这个域名非常简洁短小,完全*切中要点*,并且符合当前的需求。”
但仅仅几个月后,沙阿表示他已经卖掉了这个域名,但没有透露买家的身份。他当时表示,他把出售域名赚到的250,000美元捐给了非营利教育组织可汗学院(Khan Academy)。
在奥特曼发布推文后,沙阿确认OpenAI购买了这个域名。他曾表示他当时购买这个域名的价格是1,550万美元。至于OpenAI为这个域名支付的价格,沙阿故意含糊其辞。
在一篇带有戏谑意味的ChatGPT风格的帖子中,沙阿似乎暗示他没有从出售域名中获利,并且可能获得了OpenAI的部分股份。他在类似提示的段落中表示,他认识奥特曼已有10年时间,而且他不喜欢从朋友身上获利。
OpenAI没有立即回应《财富》杂志的置评请求。(财富中文网)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
It looks like Sam Altman just acquired a four letter URL worth more than $15 million.
On Wednesday, the OpenAI CEO ominously tweeted a simple URL, chat.com, which is now the new home of his company’s flagship AI tool, ChatGPT.
The new URL was previously owned by Dharmesh Shah, the cofounder of CRM platform HubSpot, who wrote on LinkedIn in 2023 that he paid an “8 figure sum” for it.
At the time, Shah wrote that it was “the most expensive domain name transaction I’ve ever been involved with,” saying he bought the domain name because he believes chat-based software is the next big thing. He also added he would not be using the domain name for his own company and would sell it if a buyer appeared.
“Chat.com is absolutely brilliant in terms of simplicity, shortness and being totally *on point* and meeting the moment,” Shah wrote at the time.
Yet, just a few months later, Shah said he had sold the domain without specifying who the buyer was. He said at the time he had used $250,000 of the gains from the sale and donated it to Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization.
Following Altman’s tweet, Shah confirmed that OpenAI had purchased the domain name, which he said he had bought for $15.5 million. As for the price that OpenAI paid for the URL, Shah was intentionally vague.
In a tongue-in-cheek ChatGPT-style prompt in his post, Shah seemed to imply that he did not profit off the domain sale and likely took some OpenAI shares as payment. He stated in the prompt-like passage that he has known Altman for 10 years and doesn’t like to profit off of his friends.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.