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Third month of school break, yep. I expect a surge this fall. Neither this drop nor any future surge should be seen as a sign of failure or success. It's alrea
by phillipcarter 3y ago
Third month of school break, yep. I expect a surge this fall.
Neither this drop nor any future surge should be seen as a sign of failure or success. It's already one of the most successful products in history by several measures.
- gumballindie 3y agoAh yes i was looking for this comment. Without error it gets repeated each time news about openai losing users. Guess we’ll find out soon enough if accurate. But how everyone defending this product repeats the same few things over and over is … interesting.
- phillipcarter 3y agoI don’t think I understand your point. It’s common knowledge that ChatGPT is a tool of choice for high school and college homework. It’s also common knowledge that even ignoring this, ChatGPT is a wildly successful product that’s completely broken into mainstream consciousness.
- gumballindie 3y agoJust because “it is known” it doesnt mean that’s a fact. Actually chatgpt may be in the mainstream “consciousness” but not for positive reasons.
- thfuran 3y agoWhere is still on break? I think most schools around here started the better part of a month ago.
- raziel2701 3y agoIn California the UC system came back in the middle of August. The first few weeks are easy, I concur that demand will climb as the semester progresses.
- canjobear 3y agoOnly Berkeley and UC Merced have started. The rest of the UC system is on the quarter system and Fall Quarter doesn't start until late September.
- callalex 3y agoOnly Cal starts so early, so their students can get preferential treatment and snap up all the summer internships because they end early.
- thfuran 3y agoI don't live in California but my local public schools and both the local universities I checked started weeks ago.
- phillipcarter 3y agoThis Tuesday was the first day of school for several high schools in my area.
- yowzadave 3y agoDoes the product make money yet?
- igor47 3y agoYes
- siva7 3y agoWell, yes. It is one of the most successful products by this measure or can you name me any other mass consumer product that starts at 20$ and has those giant paying subscription numbers? (no, telco/cable doesn’t count)
- Karunamon 3y agoIrrelevant if those paying subscription numbers are dwarfed by the money spent on compute. That said, they just opened an enterprise product offering, with no disclosed pricing (usually this means "if you have to ask you can't afford it"), so maybe they are actually making money now?
- gremlinsinc 3y agothey spend I think 21 million 700k per day) a month on compute, they earn 80 million monthly. That's a pretty nice revenue margin, their compute is also discounted since Microsoft owns like 49 percent of the company for 10 billion invested.