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0 pointsvrighter1y ago0 comments

What money? Aren't most (all?) AI companies are operating at a loss?

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jsheard1y ago

The ones selling the shovels are doing well, but otherwise yeah nobody is making any money.

For the true believers that's just a temporary setback on the way to becoming trillionaires though.

alan-hn1y ago

I think the people getting salaries are doing just fine

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opdahl1y ago

Well they are spending billions to make shovels that they are selling for millions (roughly).

jsheard1y ago

The shovel salesmen in this case are the likes of Nvidia, Huggingface and Runpod who are on the receiving end of the billions that AI model salesmen are spending to make millions in revenue. HF are one of the vanishingly few AI-centric startups who claim to already be profitable, because they're positioned as a money sink for the other AI-centric startups who are bleeding cash.

gklitz1y ago

5 billions in losses on 3.7 billions in revenue. So yes OpenAI is losing money, but they are looking at a valuation of 150 billion, so they could easily get investors to fund the losses, but of cause the case for investors has to be “invest and you can make a profit” which can be a tough sell if the mission isn’t aligned with making a profit for the company.

jasonlotito1y ago

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bschmidt11y ago

OpenAI is losing billions in the way Uber lost billions - through poor management.

When/if Altman ever gets out of the way like Travis K did with Uber then the real business people can come in and run the company correctly. Exactly like what happened with Uber - who never turned a profit under that leadership in the US and had their lunch eaten by a Chinese knock-off for years abroad. Can't have spoiled brats in charge, they have no experience and are wasteful and impulsive. Especially like Altman who has no engineering talent either. What is his purpose in OpenAI? He can't do anything.

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jsheard1y ago

The ones selling the shovels are doing well, but otherwise yeah nobody is making any money.

For the true believers that's just a temporary setback on the way to becoming trillionaires though.

alan-hn1y ago

I think the people getting salaries are doing just fine

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opdahl1y ago

Well they are spending billions to make shovels that they are selling for millions (roughly).

jsheard1y ago

gklitz1y ago

jasonlotito1y ago

Hi, you are new here. Welcome to tech.

bschmidt11y ago

OpenAI is losing billions in the way Uber lost billions - through poor management.

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