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Re:OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff by tombert on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:26PM (#47240597)
I guess I just feel like when you're worth that much, you can be unprofitable for a very long time before it catches up with you. That's my perspective anyway, I could be wrong.

I agree that if anyone is going to kill OpenAI it's likely Google. They have even more funding and already have giant training indexes for search that they could likely leverage to improve their models in a way that OpenAI can't.

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Re:OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff by rsynnott on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:36AM (#47246058)
Thing is, that valuation is kind of based on vibes. If people get less enthusiastic about them (or just the sector in general), that valuation will go down. Their ability to raise money off it is limited.
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Re:OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff by df2dfs on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:54PM (#47255682)
Yeah it takes awhile for investors to start actually valuing things, they usually 'price' them which is mainly driven by mood and momentum.

Given that pricing is the name of the game, all should be wary of what interests founders and their employees who are paid via stock based compensation...

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