Apple is not paying OpenAI, because it believes that putting its technology in front of hundreds of millions of users is equal to or even better than any kind of monetary payment, according to Bloomberg.
My guess is that Apple is just able to show OpenAI how good they are at upselling other 3rd party apps into paid subscriptions.
I bet the bargaining chip is, “you can sell GPT Plus, but we won’t take a 15 to 30% App Store cut if you let us send requests to GPT 4 when the dumber Apple LLMs don’t cut it.”
My guess is that Apple is just able to show OpenAI how good they are at upselling other 3rd party apps into paid subscriptions.
I bet the bargaining chip is, “you can sell GPT Plus, but we won’t take a 15 to 30% App Store cut if you let us send requests to GPT 4 when the dumber Apple LLMs don’t cut it.”