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I though openAI has plenty of investors/users? Are they really that much in debt/trouble?

efficax 4mo ago
they raised a ton of money but they spend it almost as fast as they can raise it. in any case they need real revenue if they want to ipo
arm32 4mo ago
The difference between investors/users and new-investors/paying-users is so large and wide that I could both walk AND roll around on it.
- bunnybomb2 4mo ago
  What if they just forced everyone to pay $5 to use chatgpt? No free tier (I have no MBA)
  - bstsb 4mo ago
    then every casual user would switch instantly to Gemini, or the most convenient alternative
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    - tom_ 4mo ago
      You misunderstand. They are going to force everybody to pay $5, then force everybody to use chatgpt. 8 billion times 5 isn't much money, but the advertisers will surely pay a lot for that many captive eyeballs! (I have no MBA either)
      - smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
        At this point why forcing people to use the service, if you can forcefully extract these eyeballs and then sell them directly to advertisers in large enough jars?
  - vovavili 4mo ago
    This kills their sales funnel.
  - Marsymars 4mo ago
    My jurisdiction just legalized sports betting (or something similar, I don't care all that much about what specifically got legalized), and there's been an immediate explosion in gambling ads across various media formats. A very common refrain is "these ads are terrible, but I refuse to consider paying for any ad-free subscriptions."
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slekker 4mo ago
They are simply spending more money than they are making, burning cash like crazy and they got investments to try and prop up their chest, but this tells me they are desperate
kimjune01 4mo ago
the investors want their money to make more money
slashdave 4mo ago
Each user costs them money
layer8 4mo ago
Most of OpenAI‘s users are using the free tier, and have little incentive to change that.
dbbk 4mo ago
They lose billions a month

they raised a ton of money but they spend it almost as fast as they can raise it. in any case they need real revenue if they want to ipo

arm32 4mo ago

The difference between investors/users and new-investors/paying-users is so large and wide that I could both walk AND roll around on it.

bunnybomb2 4mo ago
What if they just forced everyone to pay $5 to use chatgpt? No free tier (I have no MBA)
- bstsb 4mo ago
  then every casual user would switch instantly to Gemini, or the most convenient alternative
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  - tom_ 4mo ago
    You misunderstand. They are going to force everybody to pay $5, then force everybody to use chatgpt. 8 billion times 5 isn't much money, but the advertisers will surely pay a lot for that many captive eyeballs! (I have no MBA either)
    - smugglerFlynn 4mo ago
      At this point why forcing people to use the service, if you can forcefully extract these eyeballs and then sell them directly to advertisers in large enough jars?
- vovavili 4mo ago
  This kills their sales funnel.
- Marsymars 4mo ago
  My jurisdiction just legalized sports betting (or something similar, I don't care all that much about what specifically got legalized), and there's been an immediate explosion in gambling ads across various media formats. A very common refrain is "these ads are terrible, but I refuse to consider paying for any ad-free subscriptions."

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slekker 4mo ago

They are simply spending more money than they are making, burning cash like crazy and they got investments to try and prop up their chest, but this tells me they are desperate

kimjune01 4mo ago

the investors want their money to make more money

slashdave 4mo ago

Each user costs them money

layer8 4mo ago

Most of OpenAI‘s users are using the free tier, and have little incentive to change that.

dbbk 4mo ago

They lose billions a month