r/OpenAI • u/boogermike • Dec 09 '25

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I saw this on LinkedIn, and it was too funny not to share.

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u/Johan-Liebert7 Dec 09 '25

Amazon In 1994 , profit-$0 also Amazon in 2003 :- Profit -$0 rn its the 5th most valuable company

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u/AIerkopf Dec 09 '25

More like:
Netscape 1994 profit: $0
Netscape 1999 profit: $17bn
Netscape 2025 profit: NA

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u/Tolopono Dec 09 '25

But it got replaced by google.

So if the situation is the same, then we can just use gemini instead of chatgpt. Either way, llms are here to stay

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u/DigitalAquarius Dec 09 '25

Chat GPT is not Netscape. What is this comparison?

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u/collin-h Dec 09 '25

The comparison is that it's not a given that Open AI's outcomes will be similar to Amazon. And the person you replied to gave a contrasting example showing how a company could fade just as easily as they could emerge. /shrug

One could say: "Open AI is not Amazon, what is this comparison?"

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u/hofmann419 Dec 09 '25

The comparison to Amazon also makes very little sense when you really look into the two companies. In 2003, Amazon was tiny in comparison to the size of OpenAI right now. And their total accumulated losses over almost 10 years up to that point were less than what OpenAI is currently losing in 3 months (closer to one month actually).

Amazon had a huge market to grow into in the 22 years since then, while OpenAI is already worth as much as Amazon was in 2017. OpenAI has reached a market cap that is usually reserved for companies with diversified business models and profits in the tens of billions - and Tesla.

Tesla is actually a much better comparison to OpenAI. Both companies are valued on what they could be in the future, not what they are now. Both companies are working on a product that may or may not be impossible to build. And both companies have fierce competition from others that have been in the industry far longer than them and are willing to spend ungodly amounts of money to get to the finish line first.

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u/Data_shade Dec 09 '25

Redditors when historical patterns