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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by diamond559 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @11:56AM (#45858110)
It's actually completely been disproven, Open"AI" is burning over ten billion a quarter in net losses. It has no commercial value.
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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by shakow on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:34PM (#45858409)
To play the Devil's advocate, OpenAI actually has hundreds of millions in income, even though they are spending far more in training new models.
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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by rhetocj23 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @05:28PM (#45860619)
The issue is, as it stands, LLMs are going to become a commodity. Could that happen and OAI is still a valuable firm? Maybe. Do I personally think OpenAI has the product prowess to pull it off? Nah, I think they are overly-concentrated with technologists (same problem Google has). Apple is still king when it comes to figuring out the ideal form of the product the buyer desires.

Apple can take a future OSS model and produce the winning product. That truth would be very bitter for many to swallow. Cook maintaining good relations with China could be the thing that makes Apple topple everyone in the long-run.

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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:29PM (#45867285)
> has hundreds of millions in income

By selling a dollar for ninety cents? This metric is meaningless.

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