Re:Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run...
by og_kalu on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:20AM
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The unit economics is fine. Inference cost has reduced several orders of magnitude over the last couple years. It's pretty cheap.
Open AI reportedly had a loss of $5B last year. That's really small for a service with hundreds of millions of users (most of which are free and not monetized in any way). That means Open AI could easily turn a profit with ads, however they may choose to implement it.
Open AI reportedly had a loss of $5B last year. That's really small for a service with hundreds of millions of users (most of which are free and not monetized in any way). That means Open AI could easily turn a profit with ads, however they may choose to implement it.