AI's profits are 'being funded by investors rather than earned from customers

18 points by Anon84 2 hours ago | 2 comments

feverzsj 1 hour ago |

That's a valid business model if some company acquired them in the end.

SecretDreams 11 minutes ago | |

I believe you mean scam?

watwut 25 minutes ago | |

That is not business model. And the acquisition thing can happen when much larger companies who see you as competition to squash exist.

dude250711 1 hour ago | |

Microsoft will acquire OpenAI for $15B and Google will acquire Anthropic for $10B; the smaller ones will get acquired by Meta, Oracle etc.

Their debts will be passed on to USA/EU population.

Employees will not get to exercise their stock options, but will have some great stories to tell. Somehow RAM will not get cheaper.

Then a new hype wave starts all over.

pixel_popping 1 hour ago | |

It's literally the business model of a ton of tech companies including most of YC I bet, the author seems to live under a rock?

bigstrat2003 18 minutes ago | | |

Yes, a ton of companies don't have a valid business model. That doesn't make it a good idea for OpenAI either.