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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by PeterStuer on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:02PM (#45858156)
In its first decade (1998-2008), Google's total revenue was approximately $27.9 billion.
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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by bigbadfeline on Saturday November 08, 2025 @04:20PM (#45860114)
> In its first decade (1998-2008), Google's total revenue was approximately $27.9 billion.

And now OpenAI has Google as their competitor. Besides, Google established a search monopoly by side deals, Android and browser push but they still lost the Asian market. Now OpenAi's got to overcome not only Google, Amazon and Microsoft but also Baidu, Deepseek and the other Asian and European competitors because nobody wants to lose the "AI race" - it's too risky. Without a monopoly, there's no high profit.

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Re:Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending... by diamond559 on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:20PM (#45867208)
So is Open AI going to replace Google? What is even your point?
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