Investors are barely breaking even as the venture is hardly making any profits due to a shortage of chips, divided interests, and more.

… OpenAI has already seen a $540 million loss since debuting ChatGPT.

… OpenAI uses approximately 700,000 dollars to run the tool daily.


⚠️ First off, apologies as I didn’t cross check. Take it w/ a grain of salt.


This piece of news, if true, somehow explains why OpenAI has been coming up w/ weird schemes for making $$$ like entering the content moderation space.

On a similar note, I wonder if this had been a key driver (behind the scenes) in the recent investment in open source AI initiatives (Haidra comes to my mind?) Perhaps some corporations who haven’t got enough $$$ to fund their own dedicated research group are looking to benefit from an open source model?

  • 👁️👄👁️
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    161 year ago

    They also didn’t design ChatGPT to be power efficient at all, so that’s bloating up their operating costs a ton.

    • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]
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      31 year ago

      GitHub has been handing out a lot of free Azure time to open source projects, maybe they thought keeping “Open” in the name would work for longer?

      • facow [he/him, any]
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        21 year ago

        Haha that would be Microsoft just shifting money from one pocket to the other. GitHub, Azure and (effectively) OpenAI are all Microsoft