Comment by SR2Z
2 days ago
All indications are that selling tokens is a profitable activity for all of the AI companies - at least in terms of compute.
OpenAI loses money on free users and paying the absurdly high salaries that they've chosen to offer.
> All indications are that selling tokens is a profitable activity for all of the AI companies - at least in terms of compute.
We actually don't this yet because the useful life of the capital assets (mainly NVIDIA GPUs) isn't really well understood yet. This is being hotly debated by wall st analysts for this exact reason.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/ai-gpu-depreciation-coreweav...
Chuck-E-Cheese is also very good at selling tokens.
What indications?