On: OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030

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Google can offer their services for free for a lot longer than OpenAI can, and already does to students. DeepSeek offers their competitor product to ChatGPT for free to everyone already.

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I don't think that's accurate. They're within the range of profitability on inference today and that's before theyve started selling ads.

[WhyOhWhyQ → treis]

On what basis do you say they're within the range of profitability on inference today? Every source I see paints a different story based on their own bias.

Ed Zitron has a bias and a narrative differing from OpenAI's bias and narrative: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

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Sam Altman said they were.

Your article has 5 billion in inference cost vs 4.5 billion in revenue. That's within the range of becoming profitable.

[WhyOhWhyQ → treis]

You seem to have misread the article (which is not mine by the way), which makes the point that inference costs and revenue seem to scale with each other.