But as I understand it they’re still losing money, as much as $0.30 on every ChatGPT query.

Not true

Sama on X said as of late 2022 they were single digit pennies per query and dropping

The only financial statements I believe are those signed of by external auditors. And even there my trust only goes that far.

Pretty sure that it would be illegal for them to tweet insider information like that if it were false, since it's effectively a statement to shareholders.

I'll take securities fraud for 420, please, but private.

That's exactly the point - by tweeting insider information you are making a public statement. We've learned this very recently...

Parent meant probably meant that there's no securities fraud since no securities are involved as it's not a traded company.

The shareholders are still invested, they still have a 401A Evaluation, and these statements are definitely going to have legal weight.

New models might have different economics…

Still, they must be bleeding money with the humoungous amount of queries they get.