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OpenAI is burning cash

2025-10-24 Science & Technology
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You would think a company as big as OpenAI would actually be profitable, but they're not. In fact they're actually loosing $20 billion dollars a year... Thank you Greptile for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.link/greptile Use code RATE-EXCEEDED for 1 month of T3 Chat (the best AI chat app ever made) for just $1: https://soydev.link/chat SOURCE https://x.com/ecommerceshares/status/1978392637682876551?s=46 Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@xomiachuna 2025-10-24

Bro just trust me, double down and put all on red, eventually we'll be golden, just another trillion on red, bro, trust me, bro

434 5 replies
@AlexanderSamsonov-n8o 2025-10-24

Assuming 3.2 trillion dollars a year in revenue, they would need to extract FOUR HUNDRED dollars out of every single person on earth. Infants and elderly included. How would one think this is even a possibility? A trillion is a LOT

321 20 replies
@dotbrainless 2025-10-24

You can surely make good assumptions on how they might be becoming profitable. Thinking they are going to be making 3 TRILLION in revenue by 2029 is literal madness.

135 15 replies
@rothbardfreedom 2025-10-24

16:01 - 2030: Revenue of 13 trillion. Ain't no way... that's 46% of USA's current GDP and 15% of the rest of the world's GDP.

118 7 replies
@germimonte 2025-10-24

6:25 that sounds like a ponzi scheme with extra GPUs

71 1 replies
@olavisau 2025-10-24

This only works if the models keep getting better - at some point some companies will put 100B$ in and only get 10B$ out since the model didn't come out right.

67 6 replies
@JezdziecBezNicka 2025-10-25

Infinite growth aka "line go up" is by far my favorite modern economic theory. "OpenAI doubled its userbase last month. If this trend continues, in a year it will have over 800 billion users worldwide!"

62 6 replies
@sagyamthapa 2025-10-24

So many unanswered questions. Maybe a dairy farmer can answer. - Your cow is growing faster than anything anyone has seen so far. What if the growth goes logistic instead of exponential? - What happens to milk prices if the Chinese cows manage to catch up? - Will people pay all that money for hallucinogenic milk? - Will we ever get hallucinogen-free milk? - People don't seem to want milk from old cow once new one's is available. How does that affect profitability? Personally all my dairy needs are met by $20/mo Claude code. And $8/mo T3 chat if I ever feel like drinking milk from a different farm. I have more than more than enough milk already. How much do you pay for dairy? 🐮

56 7 replies
@bogdanlevi 2025-10-24

It should raise suspicion every time that a company starts doing weird accounting tricks such as "if each model were a different company, it would be profitable". This might be a right way to think once in a while, but overall it's a classic misdirection tactic.

45 3 replies
@Sean-fh9nj 2025-10-26

So at $27 per customer open ai only needs 481 billion customers by 2030

19 1 replies

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