Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ...
by Schiendelman on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:21AM
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You're adding absolute dollars rather than using percentages - that usually isn't how that works.
Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ...
by eiiee on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:15AM
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Hahaha what a bozo.
Of course you don’t use percentages when the magnitude of the numbers are so high.
Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ...
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:47PM
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> rather than using percentages
Not really.
Fractions (7/2), ratios (3.5x) and percentages (+250%) are fundamentally mathematically identical.
There are a lot of problems with this back-of-the-envelope estimate, but I’m not sure the one I understand you presenting is one of them.
Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ...
by curio_Pol_curio on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:37AM
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Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ...
by Schiendelman on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:07AM
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Any of those three would be fine. They did not use any of them. They simply used absolute dollars.
Ceteris paribus, those figures imply a $45bn loss this year, $90bn loss next year and $110bn loss in 2028 before breakeven in 2029.
That's $250bn of losses to be financed from 2026 onwards. (They raised ~$120bn, $25bn up front and the rest based on milestones. So Another ~$125bn uncovered.) That only works if OpenAI stays a fundraising darling. So not a doomsday sceanario. But perilous, and dependent on short-term trends extending into long-term curves.