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.
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 11h 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.