OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)

Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by alecco on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:26AM (#47181628)

Nobody saw coming the huge demand for coding agents. Not even OpenAI or Anthropic themselves. Those were side projects just a year ago and now dominate token demand. And they keep rising.

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by whizzter on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:43AM (#47181826)

Oh I do think they did see it, considering how good they are they've probably been a tuning focus for a while.

The signal the agent usage is sending though is that Anthropic is way ahead since all we hear about is Claude these days despite OpenAI spending so much more money, Antrophic is also out trialling vending machines,etc.

ChatGPT apart from generating text was a bit of a query/research tool but now that Google has their AI search augmentation shit somewhat together I'm not feeling much need for ChatGPT as a research partner.

So now the big question is, with coding and search niches curtailed, where will OpenAI be able to generate profits from to justify their insane spending?

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by phist_mcgee on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:13PM (#47186447)

Does anyone see the demand for coding agents that aren't subsided 90% by the AI company?

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by shimman on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:34PM (#47186711)

Or demand that isn't a condition of keeping your job?

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