The perpetrators all have their golden parachutes. The taxpayers will foot the bill.

The US is trillions in debt. We live in the age of magic- nobody foots the bill.

Why on earth would you expect any of them to take profit so early in the game?

Silly me, expecting a company worth a trillion dollars to make... some money. Any money. A single profitable product.

Well the good thing is you’ve done the homework to definitively demonstrate that this is remotely true. These confident claims of this all being some sort of unprofitable Ponzi scheme, not understanding the concept of a growth phase which a multitude of highly successful tech companies have already demonstrated work while simultaneously commenting on a site with YCombinator in the url are just getting amusing now.

Of course this is a profitable technology, and it doesn’t matter if any of the labs are profitable today or not. Running at a loss is a perfectly rational strategy.

Anthropic is running at an operating profit this quarter: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind-blowing-growth-is-about-to-...

(It's actually probably more profitable than their projections here calculated because they were expecting to be running Fable but can't, and Opus costs less to run)