From https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/759897/sam-..., Sam Altman said:
> “If we didn’t pay for training, we’d be a very profitable company.”
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> “If we didn’t pay for training, we’d be a very profitable company.”
There’s also a lot of comments in this thread who want LLM companies to fail for different reasons, so they’re projecting that wish on to imagined unit economics.
I’m having flashbacks to all of the conversations about Uber and claims that it was going to collapse as soon as the investment money ran out. Then Uber gradually transitioned to profitability and the critics moved to using the same shtick on AI companies.
Advertising is now a very very locked in market and will take over a decade to shift even a significant minority it into OpenAIs hands. This is not likely the first or even second monetization strategy imo.
But I’m happy to be wrong.
"No you're not, WE are digging a trench!"
Yes fine, but "I am as well".
Sheesh. Also I, personally, do and lead the work of taking the wallet share. So I will stick with "I" and would accept any of my team saying the same.