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Honestly does it really matter much if their B2C usage is primarily students? I’m more curious about their B2B operations which is likely what will trickle int

Honestly does it really matter much if their B2C usage is primarily students? I’m more curious about their B2B operations which is likely what will trickle into more people’s lives. Their APIs seem to enable quite a few interesting possibilities with a low up front technical investment. Too me the whole “generate me a bunch of text and display it as text” is a niche use case for a lot of people. Integrations for web search, document search, summarization, data extraction/transformation, and sentiment analysis are more useful and less likely to have hallucinations affect the end product. Regarding their revenue I’m curious how the Azure hosted OpenAI services work for OpenAI. Billing is all through Microsoft and the documentation tries really hard to make it clear these are Azure services. I wonder if Microsoft just pays a licensing fee or if there is some revenue sharing going on.

stubybubs 3y ago
> Honestly does it really matter much if their B2C usage is primarily students? For ChatGPT specifically, yes, because it keeps getting hyped so much, and I think B2C is going to be what ChatGPT ends up with. My company isn't known for its tech innovation and we're spinning up our own LLM based on our own data. It doesn't need to be super fast because I doubt we're going to go the chatbot route. It will likely be for content generation, so less horsepower is fine. No need to pay OpenAI for excess capacity. They could go public now with an unreal valuation based on the hype of B2B usage that may never materialize. Revealing that you're mainly a cheat/study tool for students puts you in a box with Chegg and others, at a much lower valuation.