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OpenAI 2025 - no profit.
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OpenAI 2027 - Dead.
That's my hope atleast.
At this rate its us or them
Don't be so pessimistic, it's quite possible it'll be them and us if they take the world economy down with them.
More like 0 BILLION profit
Guillotine…priceless 
How many of those we could build with $1.5 trillion...
Enough for each to be crafter by luxuary designer personally for each billionaire.
Or just build a single cheapest one and reuse for each billionaire, giving away $1.5 trillion to the normal people.
More than we would need for single use on billionaires.
Building a company on the assumption some technological miracle will fall into your lap might not be the best business plan. Ignoring reality is pretty common in those circles too. Or maybe that's just living in a different reality from say the bottom 99% of the wealth curve.
I wish reality agreed with you.
Tell it to the richest man in the world.
Full self driving 2030 guys I swear.
Thats our plan for climate change right now so...
“We made ten digit profits! Zero is a digit.”
I'm going to start saying I'm on a 7-figure salary.
In Zimbabwe Dollars, I am a trillionaire.
I wish business “journalists” would stop calling these 10 year old companies “startups”.
It’s like calling that 10-12 year old kid who was still breastfeeding on Game of Thrones “my baby”.
They did this with Uber, AirBnb, & Spotify as well.
I think "startup" is an industry term that means something on their relationship with investors. The next step is "unicorn" and in that stage i think a board is formed that can influence the company.
They built a solution in search of a problem, which isn't uncommon.
But, the AI can't solve anything without climbing over the guardrails and hallucinating. Turns out the only thing it's good for is art, music, and writing, but only if you accept that it's not very good at any of those, either.
I think the LLM method is a dead end. I think they've all figured that out, and now they're panicking because they've gone neck-deep into debt to fund this virtually useless tech. I hope the entire thing goes tits up this year, and used GPUs flood the market.
On my opinion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with ai as a thechology. The problem comes from corporations trying to sell it as a solution for non-existent problem, also not caring about that most people dont need it.
I think the capabilities are alright, it's just way too expensive to run and now they are struggling to pay for that cost.
Exactly. The capabilities are nice. The issues come up when we talk price. The capabilities are not $99/month nice. And they're not "Mark Zuckerberg knows everything I search for" nice, either.
So we wait and watch the bubble wobble, while I put pennies in my GPU savings jar.
Breaking even would be a huge improvement for them. They can only dream of zeros.
Don’t encourage them. Making a profit would mean ads on ChatGPT.
"Before I answer your question, have you heard about today's sponsor, Raid Shadow Legends?"
Or when people ask about products and options for services, that certain services can pay to be more likely to be mentioned defeating the whole purpose of actual comparison.
Good, I don't want chatgpt to be a good product. I want the experience to suck so the world can stop pretending it's useful
"Sure, that mysterious downstairs rash will probably clear up. But why wait on biology when you could unleash the all-new Ford™ F-150 with a face-melting 720 HORSEPOWER? It doesn't just drive-it obliterates problems, rashes included."
I earn five digits per day: £100.00 😎
Usually I don't judge an organization by their profits, since it isn't very indicative of its products' and/or services' value.
But yeah, in this case it makes sense and is absolutely hilarious.
And how much does this ass gets paid again?
Pete Davidson is gonna play him in the shitty movie, isn't he?
Nah, probably Jared Leto.
I hope it all fucking fails.
They will get the revenue when scalping all their GPUs and nVidiaPUs... and RAM and PSUs ...
People were making the same jokes about Spotify and Uber for 10 years, good to see nobody learned
No they weren't. At all. The jokes about spotify et. al. were about paying rent for something you used to own, not that the idea was completely useless and unprofitable.
lol are you trying to gaslight me?
that doesn’t even make sense about uber, paying for what that you used to own?
How do you fail to understand that that specific point applies to Spotify?
because you said
The jokes about spotify et. al.
What do you think et. al. means?
"and others". Why do you think that must project to where it doesn't make sense? Almost like you're too dumb to understand implication and context...
We are discussing my own experiences over the last 10 years with people saying uber et. al. are unprofitable and will therefore eventually go broke, the OP looks to be repeating this
If you are unable to understand what we’re talking about and use words you don’t understand maybe spend less time being a snarky fuck and more time thinking about what you type
lol your projection of stupidity won't be doing you any favors.