alt Hacker NewsI don’t know how $5B+ in marketing for OpenAI is actually possible.
To put it in perspective, that’s about the combined campaign budget of the Trump and Harris campaigns.
I would expect to be seeing a lot more openAI ads than I’m seeing right now. And they would be everywhere.
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surgical_fire • yesterday at 11:58 PM
My charitable guess is that they lump the compute expense for free users as "Marketing".
My less than charitable guess is that the leaked financials is a piece of fiction intended to make inference not look unprofitable.
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“Marketing” typically includes all the people in solutions architecture, developer advocacy, compute credits, and many other things. It’s a ton more than just advertising spend, which is often a minority of what appears on that line item. Given that it’s very plausible those sort of sums are realistic.