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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)
? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-burned-3-7-bi... ?

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/index-startup-ornn-...

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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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