There was some indication recently that OpenAI was spending over $500k/day to keep it running. Not sure how long thats going to last. AGI is still a pipe dream. Sooner or later , they’re going to have to make money.
Oh no, they're going belly up in 20,000 days! (i.e. $10B / 500k) Compute is going to keep getting cheaper and they're going to keep optimizing it to reduce how much compute it needs. I'm more curious about their next steps rather than how they're going to keep the lights on for ChatGPT.
Assuming you're talking about the free ChatGPT product, it's important to consider the value of the training data that users are giving them.
Beyond that, they are making a lot of money from their enterprise offerings (API products, custom partnerships, etc.) with more to come soon, like ChatGPT for Business.
I know there are use cases out there, so it's not a dig. I'm curious how many enterprises are actually spending money with OpenAI right now to do internal development. Have they released any figures?
