What a silly article. 700,000 per day is ~256 million a year. Thats peanuts compared to the 10 billion they got from MS. With no new funding they could run for about a decade & this is one of the most promising new technologies in years. MS would never let the company fail due to lack of funding, its basically MS’s LLM play at this point.
When you get articles like this, the first thing you should ask is “Who the fuck is Firstpost?”
Yeah where the hell do these posters find these articles anyway? It’s always from blogs that repost stuff from somewhere else
The difference is in who gets the ad money.
Openai biggest spending is infrastructure, Whis is rented from… Microsoft. Even if the company fold, they will have given back to Microsoft most of the money invested
MS is basically getting a ton of equity in exchange for cloud credits. That’s a ridiculously good deal for MS.
While title is click bite, they do say right at the beginning:
*Right now, it is pulling through only because of Microsoft’s $10 billion funding *
Pretty hard to miss, and than they go to explain their point, which might be wrong, but still stands. 700k i only one model, there are others and making new ones and running the company. It is easy over 1B a year without making profit. Still not significant since people will pour money into it even after those 10B.
ChatGPT development, I feel it is completely possible
The development of ChatGPT makes it even more comfortable for users. From there, more and more free chatgpt are born for new users to experience
There’s no way Microsoft is going to let it go bankrupt.
That’s $260 million .There are 360 million paid seats of MS360. So they’d have to raise their prices $0.73 per year to cover the cost.
If there’s no path to make it profitable, they will buy all the useful assets and let the rest go bankrupt.
ChatGPT is still helping a lot, I don’t want it to stop
Clickbait crap.
That would explain why ChatGPT started regurgitating cookie-cutter garbage responses more often than usual a few months after launch. It really started feeling more like a chatbot lately, it almost felt talking to a human 6 months ago.
They’re gonna be in even bigger trouble when it’s determined that AI training, especially for content generation, is not fair use and they have to pay each and every person whose data they’ve used.
AI is too useful and too powerful that none of the major players in world politics are going to put serious restrictions on it, do you really think they’re going to risk Chinese and Russian ai giving them the economic and scientific edge?
Yes selfish people want to stop progress which could help everyone in the world hey access to education, medical care, legal advice, social care, etc because they think they’re owed twenty cents for the text they wrote but thankfully society isn’t going to take them seriously, there are money grubbers and antisocial people everywhere who are looking for any chance to ruin things that could help others and we ignore those people.
