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Comment by georgemcbay

11 hours ago

> why is it like this

In part it is like this because they've already borrowed so much.

They have borrowed almost nothing.

Investment isn't debt.

  • Investment isn’t debt, but investment and debt demand revenue in functionally identical ways, and OpenAI has taken an enormous amount of investment, so they are subject to broadly the same pressures as a hypothetical company that had borrowed lots, no?

  • Isn't investment like a form of debt, or well obligation to make returns?

    If VC provide you funds, there is an expectation of returns, otherwise the board would vote you out.

    Yeah it's not a traditional loan from a bank, but it's not a 0% interest loan either.

  • The duopoly AI labs haven't technically borrowed much, but a metric ass-ton of money has been borrowed by various other entities in service of them as infrastructure proxies.

    That's what is driving up the cost of debt and teetering some of these companies into junk status.