> OpenAI tells The Verge the deal is still happening, but it scrubbed mentions due to a trademark lawsuit from Iyo, the hearing device startup spun out of Google’s moonshot factory.
Their biggest risk is that there _are_ advances to AI, and that another company takes the lead from them.
That's an incredibly low bar to hit, and I'm still sceptical that this will happen.
People tend to forget this outside of the Tech / VC / YC bubble.
OpenAI is losing a brutal amount of money, possibly on every API request you make to them as they might be offering those at a loss (some sort of "platform play", as business dudes might call it, assuming they'll be able to lock in as many API consumers as possible before becoming profitable).
The big question here will be what will happen next: Serving LLMs will likely become cheaper (as the past has shown). But will that lead to companies like OpenAI becoming profitable? Or will that lead to all platform providers lowering their prices again, offering them at a loss again? Or will that lead to everyone self-hosting their own LLMs because serving them has become cheaper not only financially, but computationally? That's the big question.
In the meantime, OpenAI is bleeding money.
I believe if you take out training costs they aren't losing money on every call on its own, though depends on which model we are talking about. Do you have a source/estimate?
But it’s hard
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However, my hope was that there are other categories of users who find the new OS useful, and it's great to know that they do.
sillyfluke•7mo ago
That toggle doesn't exist now. I doubt Ives had anything to do with that.