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Is this likely to affect investment on them? I ask because it’s surprising to me that they lose $5b a year and now can’t follow a path to proper profitability, unless I’m understanding not for profit wrong.
There are strong competitors out there spending less and I reckon that their top of the line AI is not much better than DeepSeek’s or Anthropic’s and DeepSeek alone is trained at a fraction of the cost. Why would someone continue investing on OpenAI ?
Easy decision to make when they are nowhere near ever turning a profit.
Tax-avoidance?
I think they're losing tons of money even on their $200/month plan. Last year they projected to lose like $5 billion. They just picked pricing arbitrarily I don't see how they will turn a profit anytime soon.
They can’t charge enough to profit. If they raise the price beyond (or even up to) their cost per query, no one would subscribe.
I think its just never being able to pay back the immense investment.
Like how much went into chatgpt, and how much does it make?
I’m so sick of this AI nonsense. The internet did not need a new source of bullshit.
/Nelson