OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by raincole on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:04AM (#44765196)

Ads. They're going to sell ads. It's a bit hard to imagine how else they justify the valuation.

Even if people look for answers from ChatGPT instead of Google, most people still won't pay $20/mo for it, let alone $200/mo. Average people don't pay for Google search and I've never seen any sign telling they would be willing to pay for it.

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Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation by Western0 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @08:49AM (#44767180)

But they choose products suggested by Google or OpenAI, and manufacturers already pay these companies a lot of money. AI will force us, it will manipulate us. It already chooses what we see in online stores for us. This will continue.

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