As of last week, OpenAI is now worth $157 billion - yet below the hood is a far darker story. In this episode, Ed Zitron explains the cold, hard truth - that OpenAI is a terrible business that burns billions of dollars, and its failure to scale its cloud business tells a dark tale about the wider generative AI industry.

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    1 month ago

    none of them can say they haven’t been warned. It’s common knowledge that they’re haemhorraging money, it’s only a matter of time before the investors start wanting some sort of return

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      I just want to know what’s going to happen to all the data centers being built to handle all of this needless LLM shit that almost no one wants.