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I wonder at what point will everyone who over-invested in OpenAI will regret their decision (expect maybe Nvidia?). Maybe Microsoft doesn't need to care, they g

I wonder at what point will everyone who over-invested in OpenAI will regret their decision (expect maybe Nvidia?). Maybe Microsoft doesn't need to care, they get to sell their models via Azure.

toomuchtodo 11mo ago
Amazon Set to Waste $10 Billion on OpenAI - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-set-waste-10-billion-151541306.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-set-waste-10-billion-1... - December 17th, 2025
outside1234 11mo ago
Very soon, because clearly OpenAI is in very serious trouble. They are scaled and have no business model and a competitor that is much better than them at almost everything (ads, hardware, cloud, consumer, scaling).
jack_riminton 11mo ago
But you’re forgetting the Jonny Ive hardware device that totally isn’t like that laughable pin badge thing from Humane /s
- user34283 11mo ago
  I agree completely. Altman was at some point talking about a screen less device and getting people away from the screen. Abandoning our mose useful sense, vision, is a recipe for a flop.
  - jack_riminton 11mo ago
    I'm not entirely sure it will ever see the light of day tbh The amount of money sloshing around in these acquisitions makes you wonder what they're really for
guelo 11mo ago
OpenAI's doom was written when Altman (and Nadella) got greedy, threw away the nonprofit mission, and caused the exodus of talent and funding that created Anthropic. If they had stayed nonprofit the rest of the industry could have consolidated their efforts against Google's juggernaut. I don't understand how they expected to sustain the advantage against Google's infinite money machine. With Waymo Google showed that they're willing to burn money for decades until they succeed. This story also shows the market corruption of Google's monopolies, but a judge recently gave them his stamp of approval so we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future.
- behnamoh 11mo ago
  > I don't understand how they expected to sustain the advantage against Google's infinite money machine. I ask this question about Nazi Germany. They adopted the Blitkrieg strategy and expanded unsustainably, but it was only a matter of time until powers with infinite resources (US, USSR) put an end to it.
  - goobatrooba 11mo ago
    I know you're making an analogy but I have to point out that there are many points where Nazi Germany could have gone a different route and potentially could have ended up with a stable dominion over much of Western Europe. Most obvious decision points were betraying the USSR and declaring war on the US (no one really had been able to print the reason, but presumably it was to get Japan to attack the soviets from the other side, which then however didn't happen). Another could have been to consolidate after the surrender/supplication of France, rather than continue attacking further.
  - eru 11mo ago
    Huh? How did the USSR have infinite resources? They were barely kept afloat by western allied help (especially at the beginning). Remember also how Tsarist Russia was the first power to collapse and get knocked out of the war in WW1, long before the war was over. They did worse than even the proverbial 'Sick Man of Europe', the Ottoman Empire. Not saying that the Nazi strategy was without flaws, of course. But your specific critique is a bit too blunt.
TacticalCoder 11mo ago
Oracle's stock skyrocketed then took a nosedive. Financial experts warned that companies who bet big on OpenAI like Oracle and Coreweave to pump their stock would go down the drain, and down the drain they went (so far: -65% for Coreweave and nearly -50% of Oracle compared to their OpenAI-hype all-time highs). Markets seems to be in a: "Show me the OpenAI money" mood at the moment. And even financial commentators who don't necessarily know a thing about AI can realize that Gemini 3 Pro and now Gemini 3 Flash are giving ChatGPT a run for its money. Oracle and Microsoft have other source of revenues but for those really drinking the OpenAI koolaid, including OpenAI itself, I sure as heck don't know what the future holds. My safe bet however is that Google ain't going anywhere and shall keep progressing on the AI front at an insane pace.
- eru 11mo ago
  Financial experts [0] and analysts are pretty much useless. Empirically their predictions are slightly worse than chance. [0] At least the guys who publish where you or me can read them.
spaceman_2020 11mo ago
Seeing Sergey Brin back in the trenches makes me think Google is really going to win this They always had the best talent, but with Brin at the helm, they also have someone with the organizational heft to drive them towards a single goal

I wonder at what point will everyone who over-invested in OpenAI will regret their decision (expect maybe Nvidia?). Maybe Microsoft doesn't need to care, they get to sell their models via Azure.

toomuchtodo 11mo ago

Amazon Set to Waste $10 Billion on OpenAI - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-set-waste-10-billion-151541306.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-set-waste-10-billion-1... - December 17th, 2025

outside1234 11mo ago

Very soon, because clearly OpenAI is in very serious trouble. They are scaled and have no business model and a competitor that is much better than them at almost everything (ads, hardware, cloud, consumer, scaling).

jack_riminton 11mo ago

But you’re forgetting the Jonny Ive hardware device that totally isn’t like that laughable pin badge thing from Humane /s

user34283 11mo ago
I agree completely. Altman was at some point talking about a screen less device and getting people away from the screen. Abandoning our mose useful sense, vision, is a recipe for a flop.
- jack_riminton 11mo ago
  I'm not entirely sure it will ever see the light of day tbh The amount of money sloshing around in these acquisitions makes you wonder what they're really for

guelo 11mo ago

OpenAI's doom was written when Altman (and Nadella) got greedy, threw away the nonprofit mission, and caused the exodus of talent and funding that created Anthropic. If they had stayed nonprofit the rest of the industry could have consolidated their efforts against Google's juggernaut. I don't understand how they expected to sustain the advantage against Google's infinite money machine. With Waymo Google showed that they're willing to burn money for decades until they succeed. This story also shows the market corruption of Google's monopolies, but a judge recently gave them his stamp of approval so we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future.

behnamoh 11mo ago
> I don't understand how they expected to sustain the advantage against Google's infinite money machine. I ask this question about Nazi Germany. They adopted the Blitkrieg strategy and expanded unsustainably, but it was only a matter of time until powers with infinite resources (US, USSR) put an end to it.
- goobatrooba 11mo ago
  I know you're making an analogy but I have to point out that there are many points where Nazi Germany could have gone a different route and potentially could have ended up with a stable dominion over much of Western Europe. Most obvious decision points were betraying the USSR and declaring war on the US (no one really had been able to print the reason, but presumably it was to get Japan to attack the soviets from the other side, which then however didn't happen). Another could have been to consolidate after the surrender/supplication of France, rather than continue attacking further.
- eru 11mo ago
  Huh? How did the USSR have infinite resources? They were barely kept afloat by western allied help (especially at the beginning). Remember also how Tsarist Russia was the first power to collapse and get knocked out of the war in WW1, long before the war was over. They did worse than even the proverbial 'Sick Man of Europe', the Ottoman Empire. Not saying that the Nazi strategy was without flaws, of course. But your specific critique is a bit too blunt.

TacticalCoder 11mo ago

Oracle's stock skyrocketed then took a nosedive. Financial experts warned that companies who bet big on OpenAI like Oracle and Coreweave to pump their stock would go down the drain, and down the drain they went (so far: -65% for Coreweave and nearly -50% of Oracle compared to their OpenAI-hype all-time highs). Markets seems to be in a: "Show me the OpenAI money" mood at the moment. And even financial commentators who don't necessarily know a thing about AI can realize that Gemini 3 Pro and now Gemini 3 Flash are giving ChatGPT a run for its money. Oracle and Microsoft have other source of revenues but for those really drinking the OpenAI koolaid, including OpenAI itself, I sure as heck don't know what the future holds. My safe bet however is that Google ain't going anywhere and shall keep progressing on the AI front at an insane pace.

eru 11mo ago
Financial experts [0] and analysts are pretty much useless. Empirically their predictions are slightly worse than chance. [0] At least the guys who publish where you or me can read them.

spaceman_2020 11mo ago

Seeing Sergey Brin back in the trenches makes me think Google is really going to win this They always had the best talent, but with Brin at the helm, they also have someone with the organizational heft to drive them towards a single goal