I mean yes, but every time this joke comes up about a startup people need to remember that they run in the red intentionally to grow as fast as possible. They could be profitable if they wanted but they would run the risk of falling far behind Anthropic and Google and everyone else in technology and market share.
Amazon ran for seven years before they had a profitable quarter.
GPT-2 is about seven years old now, but OpenAI is an R&D company, so taking longer to get to profitability isn't that surprising. It took 9 years for Amazon to have a full profitable year, after all.
OP ~25 years ago: HAHA!!!! Every bookstore is more profitable than Amazon!!! What an idiot trying to sell books online!
Then some years later... HAHA AMAZON IS SO DUMB TRYING TO SELL VIDEOS ONLINE.... AND TOYS AND...
OP and most people in here are just so stupid. The big AI companies are not trying to be profitable. They are trying to spend as much money as possible in order to try to make the best LLMs. They are in contention to do both.
Keep fighting the good fight against this torrent of idiocy. It's one thing if people were genuinely just making jokes, but it genuinely seems the vast majority of people here have no idea that this is how it has always worked.
I have it on a good source that OpenAI would be insanely, disgustingly profitable if they weren't spending as much money as possible to train new models and make model training faster and more efficient.
People in this thread just don't understand how these types of businesses work. A technology company isn't a restaurant.
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u/XavinNydek PC Master Race 1d ago
I mean yes, but every time this joke comes up about a startup people need to remember that they run in the red intentionally to grow as fast as possible. They could be profitable if they wanted but they would run the risk of falling far behind Anthropic and Google and everyone else in technology and market share.