OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Program for Small Businesses

OpenAI announced the ChatGPT for small business program to help small business operators efficiently handle various roles such as marketing, accounting, and sales. The program focuses on helping entrepreneurs with limited manpower and resources use AI to extend their personal expertise and maximize their work capacity.

The key support offerings are as follows:

• Practice-focused virtual training: Provides product-specific webinars covering real business use cases in accounting, marketing, e-commerce, and more, along with training on automated workflows.
• In-person AI Academy: Offers hands-on training led by the OpenAI Academy team across the United States, helping local business owners build AI workflows directly.
• New guides and resources: Provides customer case studies, interactive guides, and short-form videos containing prompts and examples that can be applied immediately to work.
• Small business-specific agents and partnerships: Collaborates with major partners including Dropbox, Shopify, Intuit, Slack, and Wix to offer plugins and special benefits optimized for small business workflows.

In particular, the recently announced ChatGPT Work is an agent that performs multi-step tasks, designed to connect with users' files and applications to complete complex projects end to end.