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Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup by smcin on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:59PM (#45520591)
Perhaps for as long as the base tier remains free, ad-free, and burn $8+billion/year, and for as long as they can continue funding that with circular trades with public stocks such as this week's nVidia and AMD deals.

You're aware they already announced they'll add ads in 2026.

And the circular trades are already rattling public markets.

How do they monetize users on the base tier, to any extent? By adding e-commerce? And once they add ads how do they avoid that compromising the integrity of the product?

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Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup by og_kalu on Thursday October 09, 2025 @12:46AM (#45523610)
>How do they monetize users on the base tier, to any extent? By adding e-commerce? And once they add ads how do they avoid that compromising the integrity of the product?

Netflix introduced ads and it quickly became their most popular tier. The vast majority of people don't care about ads unless it's really obnoxious.

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