Google, Amazon, and Microsoft aren’t profitable?

notyourwork 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I assume the reference was AI use cases are not profitable. Those companies are subsidizing and OpenAI/grok are burning money.

	▲	lossyalgo 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah but OpenAI is adding ads this year for the free versions, which I'm guessing is most of their users. They are probably hedging on taking a big slice of Google's advertising monopoly-pie (which is why Google is also now all-in on forcing Gemini opt-out on every product they own, they can see the writing on the wall).
	▲	onion2k 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Google, Amazon, and Microsoft do a lot of things that aren't profitable in themselves. There is no reason to believe a company will kill a product line just because it makes a loss. There are plenty of other reasons to keep it running.

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josefx 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Aren't all Microsoft products OpenAI based? OpenAI has always been burning money.

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wolfram74 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you think it's odd you only listed companies with already existing revenue streams and not companies that started with and only have generative algos as their product?

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dangus 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many business units have Google and Microsoft shut down or ceased investment for being unprofitable?

I hear Meta is having massive VR division layoffs…who could have predicted?

Raw popularity does not guarantee sustainability. See: Vine, WeWork, MoviePass.

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