@jeffw to TechnologyEnglish • 1 month agoOpenAI, valued at $157 billion, isn't profitable. Should that be normal?www.salon.commessage-square110arrow-up1439arrow-down110
arrow-up1429arrow-down1external-linkOpenAI, valued at $157 billion, isn't profitable. Should that be normal?www.salon.com@jeffw to TechnologyEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square110
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-3•1 month agoremoving the cost of R&D I would assume its profitable right? Once the model is trained running it takes significantly less computing. OpenAI has a fuck ton of customers so I would assume they are making back the cost of running their model API.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-21 month agohttps://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/openai-is-losing-money-on-its-pricey-chatgpt-pro-plan-ceo-sam-altman-says/ Edit: on further inspection this is covered in the article
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agothanks and holy shit thats a lot of revenue
minus-square@jacksilverlinkEnglish2•1 month agoWith these kinds of models you can’t ever stop training them, otherwise you reach a point where the data becomes dated and thus the model is dated. Think world events. Say another bird flu became a pandemic. The model can only know about that if it’s trained on those events. There are systems (Rag) that can answer questions based on additional content, but that would only work on a subset of problems/situations.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoOh true i did not consider that they require constant training to stay up to date.
removing the cost of R&D I would assume its profitable right? Once the model is trained running it takes significantly less computing. OpenAI has a fuck ton of customers so I would assume they are making back the cost of running their model API.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/openai-is-losing-money-on-its-pricey-chatgpt-pro-plan-ceo-sam-altman-says/
Edit: on further inspection this is covered in the article
thanks and holy shit thats a lot of revenue
I don’t think so
With these kinds of models you can’t ever stop training them, otherwise you reach a point where the data becomes dated and thus the model is dated.
Think world events. Say another bird flu became a pandemic. The model can only know about that if it’s trained on those events.
There are systems (Rag) that can answer questions based on additional content, but that would only work on a subset of problems/situations.
Oh true i did not consider that they require constant training to stay up to date.