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aurareturnlast Tuesday at 10:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

Not sure why you’re downvoted.

Everyone wants to treat OpenAI like a car wash business where they need to make a profit almost immediately. I don’t know why people can’t understand that the industry is in a rapid growth stage and investing the money is more important than making a profit now. The profits will come later.


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nutjob2yesterday at 1:48 PM

> The profits will come later.

The nearly $1T hand wave. Forgive me if I ask how. Might give it some credence if Anthropic and Google weren't pulling even with or surpassing them in various way or markets.

Whats worse is they mostly seem to have retail market name recognition which is arguably the hardest, or maybe the impossible market to make money from.

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FatherOfCursesyesterday at 2:46 PM

> profits will come later

Holy crap, is it the year 2000 again?