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> they're still a minnow 3K+ employees, $3B+ revenue, ... sure, not BigTech but hardly a minnow. A company that big can chew gum and walk at the same time.
by golly_ned 2y ago
> they're still a minnow
3K+ employees, $3B+ revenue, ... sure, not BigTech but hardly a minnow. A company that big can chew gum and walk at the same time.
- lou1306 2y agoThey're trying to bark up a tree that might happen to be backed by the People's Republic of China. That's not their league, and even Microsoft would think twice before getting into that kind of kerfuffle.
- dluan 2y agoI think commenters don't know about Bill Gates personally wining and dining Hu Jintao in Medina 20 years ago.
- dauhak 2y agoThey're also still deep in their loss-making phase, the whole "incumbent squashing upstarts" stance is a lot easier to pull off when you're settled and printing money
- __loam 2y ago$7-8b in costs so they're losing $5b
- Pedro_Ribeiro 2y agoDoes that include R&D? If running ChatGPT costs $1B/y and they make $3B/y on it, tacking on the cost of R&D on top doesn't seem very fair.