I don't know how to precisely quantify the value I get, but Im happily paying $20/mo for OpenAI tools. I'll never again "read documentation" directly nor will I sift through useless SEO optimized bog-spam to learn about a new hot thing. Between these 2 activities, thats pretty much all I use the internet for in the first place and AI has become a core part of my life/work process. If this works out to be all AI is ever good for its still a win for me. I don't remember the last time I used the standard Google search for something.

I am glad to see this as the top comment, it is basically exactly my position (except I pay for Claude dot AI).

Having an infinitely patient expert (who's occasionally fuzzy on the details) summarize absolutely any topic and answer questions about it is so overwhelmingly valuable to me it's a little nuts.

With the intensive energy and compute requirements, does $20 yield a profit for openAI, even cover the costs of an active user?

How much would you be willing to pay for this service as it is now?

Asking ChatGPT it seems to be about $0.10 a query? I guess if you only ask 10 questions a day it works out? Is OpenAI profitable now?