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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by stavros on Monday June 09, 2025 @07:19AM (#44223303)
You're right, nothing has value unless someone figures out how to make money with it. Except OpenAI, apparently, because the fact that people buy ChatGPT to make images doesn't seem to count as a commercial use case.
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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:11AM (#44223657)
OpenAI is not profitable and we don't know if it ever will be.
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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by stavros on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:15AM (#44223693)
Have we shifted the goalposts from "something people will pay for" to "needs to be profitable even with massive R&D" then?
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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday June 09, 2025 @09:34AM (#44224366)
OpenAI is not "something people will pay for" at the moment though.
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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by stavros on Monday June 09, 2025 @09:45AM (#44224474)
Except lots of people are paying for it. I'll refer you to the other post on the front page for the calculation that OpenAI would have to get just an extra $10/yr from their users to break even.
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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:49AM (#44225701)
Your response reminds me of that joke about selling a dollar bill for ninety cents.
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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by stavros on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:52AM (#44225731)
Your response makes me think we have different definitions for profitability.
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Re:The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on b... by dbdoskey on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:33AM (#44246111)
OpenAI is not profitable because it is spending resources into moving forward and training new models and creating new tools.
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