Plenty of people have already said "Google is dead" in certain terms. If somebody needs ten billion dollars in additional work and investment to make that a re

Plenty of people have already said "Google is dead" in certain terms. If somebody needs ten billion dollars in additional work and investment to make that a reality, how certain can they be? OpenAI has 375 employees (according to Google). At 300,000 a head thats 110M per year in compensation. Let's say that their compute costs are enormous and go to 200M in expenses per year. 10B is fifty years of expenses. So if they need 10B in investment it becomes obvious that they believe that they have to change something about their business in a fundamental way. Maybe that is going to be enough, but if it is so certain it becomes hard to believe that they'd need this kind of investment.