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Re:OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid str... by timmmmmmay on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:29PM (#47774370)
it's been pretty funny seeing people who did not predict Claude Code's success and previously said the whole sector was a nonsense dead end now saying, well okay there's one massively successful killer app, but what if that's the only one ever?
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Re:OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid str... by majormajor on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:57PM (#47774537)
The scrutiny is because the actions of the company suggest that the company itself has no idea what another killer app could be. Let alone enough to reach a 1T valuation.
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Re:OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid str... by jcgrillo on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:51AM (#47774810)
The whole sector is still quite likely a nonsense dead end.
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Re:OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid str... by Gagarin1917 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @01:18AM (#47774964)
It’s the second killer app. The first was AI Chat. It was genuinely game changing and still is.
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