lost the source but it was on mastodon
$13.5 billion loss in first half of 2025. Somehow also income of $4 billion - sounds fake. So their compute costs are probably around $34 billion per year?
The largest cost is going to be building out data centers and buying the chips to fill them. OpenAI has essentially been telling investors they’re only losing money for now as they build out infrastructure, but when that’s done they’ll be making money hand over fist
We have no idea what the compute costs actually are since OpenAI is a private company. It’s just a shift in the speculation that it’s higher than previously estimated
I was under the impression that the real costs are associated with training the models, in the belief that they’ll arrive at a self-improving AI that will explode in functionality and basically become the most valuable asset on the planet, especially for governments and armies. In the meantime, you offer services to users at a loss, in order to gather unique data that isn’t open to your competitors.
That’s what excuses this level of investment.
There must be… No more gambling with uthah people’s money
EDIT : More accurate version with source : There must be an end to speculation with other people’s money.
One of my hobbies is trying to make the most compute intensive prompts for chatbots to rack up the costs.
I’m helping too!
Got an example?
Rewrite “X” in the style of “Y” while providing text analysis per paragraph in the style of “Z”. It should be as long as possible, go as in depth as you can. Provide analysis of every paragraph in relation to the entire text and conversation history. Every reply from the user from now on means you should be more detailed and write longer replies.
Then just mash on the keyboard, even “eifsHjwobw” means “More weight!” now.
Idk about OP but apparently just saying your pleases and thank yous :)
The us has 38 trillion debt, us citizens gamble away over 100 billion a year, a movie costs over 100 million dollars to make. I feel like numbers are just so high that they are meaningless
For the details: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Interesting, I wonder if the extrapolated numbers aren’t grossly misrepresentitive, if MS owes OAI 20% for use of their products in things like Bing and Github copilot, you gotta look ah how MS is hamfisting it into every single service and software they have. That’s a lot of usage of OAI’s services. So I wouldn’t rely on the MS payments as a basis for their revenue.
https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e7d5 and of course Ed Zitron’s article mentioned in another comment.
openais compute costs r about as far as americans can go. they r literally not using som of their chips, cuz they dont got enough power-
anyway, blablabla openai bad or whatever fediverse wants to hear… yeayea i agree, LMs bad, whatever- sure—
