OpenAI will never be profitable selling raw tokens. They need the application layer that allows them to sell additional functionality and decouple the cost of

OpenAI will never be profitable selling raw tokens. They need the application layer that allows them to sell additional functionality and decouple the cost of a plan from the cost of tokens. See Lovable, they abstract away tokens as "credits" and most likely sell the tokens at a ~10x markup. The idea of running a company that sells tokens is like starting a company that sells MySQL calls.