I think the amount of money they’re burning on their operations would make that organizational lift a drop in the bucket. A few dozen annual 6 figure salaries? A few hundred? A bunch of normal CPU-based AWS services? They must spend 10 million per day on their current operating expenses.

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mattlondon 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Google and Meta are many thousands of sales people, managers, engineers, SREs, HR, masseuses etc. If you want to scale to Meta or Goog scale when doing ads you won't be able to do it with a few dozen people. Just sales will be hundreds or thousands spread across all the major territories

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Invictus0 13 hours ago | parent [-]

what's with all the naysaying? It's HN in 2025 and you think a company the size of OpenAI can't afford to build ads?

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emp17344 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Except OpenAI’s value is overinflated by an economic bubble. They don’t have the manpower or resources to effectively implement an ad network on the scale they’d need to become profitable. Why are you insisting we keep the conversation positive?

	▲	DrewADesign 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Just like people said of a bunch of saas companies going up against Oracle, IBM, etc. 20 years ago. I honestly don’t think open ai has the maturity or discipline for long-term viability, but their operating expenses for a week would eclipse the annual payroll required to hire a large corporate infrastructure that may be the best shot they have at transitioning from a company operating on hope and buzz to one that actually makes a few bucks. I’ll eat my hat if they become the next Google, but they didn’t pull the playbook out of thin air.
	▲	ThrowawayTestr 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		They have an app millions of people use that they can directly inject ads into. What makes you think this couldn't make money?
	▲	Invictus0 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		see you in 5 years