Comment by timpera
3 months ago
Thanks for sharing! It's pretty rare to see a balanced take from Ed Zitron.
> I also cannot reconcile these numbers with the reporting that OpenAI will have a cash burn of $9 billion in CY2025. On inference alone, OpenAI has already spent $8.67 billion through Q3 CY2025.
This is insane.
Explains why Sam was so panicked when asked about revenues recently.
> It's pretty rare to see a balanced take from Ed Zitron.
How are you understanding the word 'balanced'? Do you mean _tone_, or something? Like, this is unusually dry and non-grumpy for Ed, but it's if anything more critical than his normal output.
It's insane if the data is accurate. Only time will tell
You just have to believe. Believe in Sam Altman and everything he says and imagines. Believe in him when he says that he needs to spend 7% of world GDP on datacentres to pump out Sora slop and get his LLMs to type out the cure for cancer. Just believe. Believe harder.
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