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

Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by bandrami on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:38PM (#47185268)

I don't know that OpenAI specifically is the weak link but this definitely adds to the argument that the entire sector is a wash with the same three or four companies passing around the same $50B over and over. OpenAI is just the link that seems most likely to break first.

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by aurareturn on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:58PM (#47185509)

I've subscribed to a few AI tools for the last 3 years now. I'm someone who almost never subscribes to anything.

I'm sure that $50b has my money in there somewhere.

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by g-mork on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:14PM (#47186451)

Yep same, I'd sooner starve than cut my Anthropic sub

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by rvnx on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:29PM (#47186659)

If tomorrow Claude pricing changes and they start charging real API costs like 2000+ USD, and there is another service: "NotReallyClaude" that is a bit less good but 200 USD, then what would you do ?

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by bandrami on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:53PM (#47189606)

Man, they really got good at hitting that dopamine button, huh?

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by bandrami on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:59PM (#47188516)

Your subscription fees didn't fully pay for the amortization on the chips you used for the inference.

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by aurareturn on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:02AM (#47193639)

Inference is profitable. Gross margins are in the 50%+ apparently. This is coming from Anthropic CEO.

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Re:OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nv... by bandrami on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:38AM (#47214243)

I'd say that too if I were an AI CEO looking for funding

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