OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B

Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ... by Schiendelman on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:21AM (#48552642)

You're adding absolute dollars rather than using percentages - that usually isn't how that works.

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Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ... by eiiee on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:15AM (#48554036)

Hahaha what a bozo.

Of course you don’t use percentages when the magnitude of the numbers are so high.

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Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:47PM (#48562614)

> 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.

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Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ... by curio_Pol_curio on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:37AM (#48565725)

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Re:OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending ... by Schiendelman on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:07AM (#48565941)

Any of those three would be fine. They did not use any of them. They simply used absolute dollars.

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