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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by bdangubic on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:32PM (#47603943)
it is a simple stance - if you have a product that is used by hundreds of millions of people ad monetization strategy will be found cause there are people a lot smarter than you and me that will get it done. here’s intellectual challenge - find a business with comparable number of users to openai which is not swimming in ad revenue - one will do
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by flextheruler on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:17PM (#47605251)
A counterpoint is that there are many products with significant usage that fail or never attempt advertising monetization. They just increase the cost of the product.
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by satvikpendem on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:59PM (#47607064)
Such as?
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by flextheruler on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:59AM (#47626733)
I apologize, but I thought it was self-evident. The majority of enterprise professional software.

I would argue that comparing OpenAI to social media companies is an awful comparison. A much better comparison would be to Microsoft Office.

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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by satvikpendem on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:46AM (#47627261)
I thought we were talking about search or social media companies failing to capitalize on advertising which I haven't seen. OpenAI is much closer to Google than it is to Office.
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by flextheruler on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:05PM (#47634896)
I could see that argument, but the economics of the two are so different. I just don't see how using an LLM can be sustainable for search, but could see it as an enterprise model.
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by satvikpendem on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:10PM (#47634930)
What do you mean not sustainable for search? OpenAI is eating Google's lunch forcing them to put in LLMs on Google. I personally don't use traditional search anymore, it's all through LLMs. Meanwhile everyone hates Microsoft Office LLMs.
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by harmonic18374 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:56PM (#47604989)
Snapchat
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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by bdangubic on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:29PM (#47606143)
Total Quarterly Revenue (Q4 2024): $1.55 billion in total revenue, with $1.41 billion coming from advertising

Basically all their revenue is ad revenue and not too bad

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