HACKER Q&A
📣 roschdal

Will OpenAI Go Bankrupt?


"heading for $5.000.000.000 USD in losses"

https://www.dexerto.com/tech/openai-on-verge-of-bankruptcy-heading-for-5-billion-in-losses-report-2839622/

  👤 solardev Accepted Answer ✓
It's really kinda too bad we don't have any sort of alternative funding model for a project of this scale, something like the Manhattan Project but not so defense-oriented and nationalist.

I wouldn't want the government to directly control and censor a model like this, but it would be cool if everyday people could (for example) just crowdfund $100 a person and have all this training in the public domain. That's 700 million people a year in order to reach their $7B/yr spend, though... not gonna happen.

👤 mikhailfranco
Just proving it really is a non-profit organization.
👤 meiraleal
An OpenAI bankrupcy would be great for society. They pushed the innovation and that's great but we don't need another letter in an acronym of tech overlords.
👤 smt88
No, plenty of investors still willing to gamble on them. Saudis love a stupid Silicon Valley investment, for example.
👤 Devasta
We can only hope so.