OpenAI

After years of being warned about how AI will eliminate the need for all kinds of human-staffed professions, the bots are coming.

Let’s hope over the long run that turns out to be a good thing. [Jasper](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jasper-da51), developer of a platform that helps create original content while optimizing it for ROI and even repackaging it in different ways and in different languages. However, of that total, just over a billion went to OpenAI, for which writing is but one of several focus areas around artificial intelligence. That said, it’s also premature to say these tools won’t become good enough to displace us. No, ChatGPT won’t be winning the Nobel Prize for literature. The Austin-based company [raised $125 million](https://news.crunchbase.com/ai-robotics/unicorn-venture-funding-marketing-jasper/) in an October round led by [Insight Partners](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/insight-partners) that vaulted it to unicorn status.