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OpenAI, valued at $157 billion, isn't profitable. Should that be normal? (www.salon.com)
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[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clarifying that profit is calculated using a subtraction, but you're missing the core of my comment. Amazon self-finance their R&D and STILL make a fuck load of profit. They made like 30B$ of free cash last year alone. In the last 15 years they've made >100B$ in overall profit and only been in the red twice.

They're not just profitable they're an insane money printing machine that doesn't show any sign of slowing down.