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> Profit is money you couldn’t figure out how to spend.

Profit is the money showing your business is sustainable. Ever since the ZIRP era US companies keep haemorrhaging money at a rate that is physically impossible to recoup.

If OpenAI plans to lose 100+ billion dollars per year for half a decade, what profits are you talking about to offset the losses?

> When the company/market matures, you want pure profits because shareholders like money.

Ah yes. Shareholders like money. And not, you know, basic accounting like "we need money to actually pay salaries, pay for equipment and offices etc. without perpetually relying on seeming endless investor money".

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> what profits are you talking about to offset the losses?

You don’t need profit to offset the losses.

You can simply reduce spending / expenses.

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In principle yes, but all metrics so far suggest they are losing money every user interaction. There is very little network effect with these tools so It's not like they can start cutting back on staff and feature deployment.
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lol that’s a line so incredibly naive it hurts.

One does not “simply” reduce spending.

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> One does not “simply” reduce spending.

Why does stock price go up after mass layoffs?

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What happens when the only way to reduce spending is to reduce your assets? Seems like circular logic at that point. I suppose the market isn’t expected to be rational all the time, but eventually it is.
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Not sure why you’re downvoted.

Everyone wants to treat OpenAI like a car wash business where they need to make a profit almost immediately. I don’t know why people can’t understand that the industry is in a rapid growth stage and investing the money is more important than making a profit now. The profits will come later.

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