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Google, Amazon, and Microsoft aren’t profitable?
by MrDarcy 9mo ago
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft aren’t profitable?
- notyourwork 9mo agoI assume the reference was AI use cases are not profitable. Those companies are subsidizing and OpenAI/grok are burning money.
- onion2k 9mo agoGoogle, Amazon, and Microsoft do a lot of things that aren't profitable in themselves. There is no reason to believe a company will kill a product line just because it makes a loss. There are plenty of other reasons to keep it running.
- notyourwork 9mo agoI didn't imply anything about what big-tech would do.
- lossyalgo 9mo agoYeah but OpenAI is adding ads this year for the free versions, which I'm guessing is most of their users. They are probably hedging on taking a big slice of Google's advertising monopoly-pie (which is why Google is also now all-in on forcing Gemini opt-out on every product they own, they can see the writing on the wall).
- josefx 9mo agoAren't all Microsoft products OpenAI based? OpenAI has always been burning money.
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- wolfram74 9mo agoDo you think it's odd you only listed companies with already existing revenue streams and not companies that started with and only have generative algos as their product?
- dangus 9mo agoHow many business units have Google and Microsoft shut down or ceased investment for being unprofitable? I hear Meta is having massive VR division layoffs…who could have predicted? Raw popularity does not guarantee sustainability. See: Vine, WeWork, MoviePass.