ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads, a feature that displays advertisements within ChatGPT, to seven new countries in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, following earlier launches in other Asia Pacific regions. Ads will only appear to users on free and low-cost plans, while paid subscribers remain ad-free, and OpenAI says it keeps conversations private from advertisers and doesn't let ads influence ChatGPT's responses. This expansion brings ChatGPT Ads to over 60 countries total, with the service having already generated $1 billion in annualized revenue within less than 200 days of its initial launch.