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What do you mean "no evidence"? The Information had just published a concrete analysis showing the OpenAI is spending the threefold of what they collect in reve
by hansmayer 1y ago
What do you mean "no evidence"? The Information had just published a concrete analysis showing the OpenAI is spending the threefold of what they collect in revenues. And many other bloggers, Ed Zitron being one of the better known ones, have been writing about it forever.
- NewsaHackO 1y agoNope, proven wrong upthread :) >A recent article[1] from this year says "OpenAI looks to meet its full-year revenue target of $13 billion and a cash-burn target of $8.5 billion, the report added." [1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-first-half-revenue-rises-16-about-43-billion-information-reports-2025-09-30/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-first-half-revenu...
- hansmayer 1y agoWell, OpenAI "looks to" a lot of things (AGI by the end of 2025 was also one stated goal), but unfortunately, facts are something else. Your artical sums up the costs for running ChatGPT to 2.5B + another 6.7B for "research and development", a.k.a. bunch of PhDs tweaking the model weights - so that is a total of what, roughly 9B USD? Congrats, their burn for the first half was not 3x times the revenue, it was "only" slightly over 2x times that. I am not sure where did they pull the projection for ~13B revenue for the whole year, if they generated only a third of that in the while first half of it? Maybe from that latest pivot, erotica-ChatGPT, but otherwise...no.