Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by OtherShrezzing on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:05AM (#44973695)

I don't see how this works, as the costs of running inference is so much higher than the revenues earned by the frontier labs. Anthropic and OpenAI don't continue to exist long-term in a world where GPT-5 and Claude 4.1 cost-quality models are SOTA.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by HDThoreaun on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:29AM (#44974027)

With gpt5 I’m not sure this is true. Certainly openAI is still losing money but if they stopped research and just focused on productionizing inference use cases I think they’d be profitable.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by epicureanideal on Thursday August 21, 2025 @01:04PM (#44975230)

> if they stopped research and just focused on productionizing inference use cases I think they’d be profitable

For a couple of years, until someone who did keep doing research pulled ahead a bit with a similarly good UI.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by criddell on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:49PM (#44976548)

But would they be profitable enough? They've taken on more than $50 billion of investment.

I think it's relatively easy for Meta to plow billions into AI. Last quarter their revenue was something like $15 billion. Open AI will be lucky to generate that over the next year.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears by HDThoreaun on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:46PM (#44977865)

meta net profit last quarter was over $18 billion so yea the big tech players definitely have a lot more runway

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