> What is the point - exactly - of profit?

It's what attracts capital investment, which businesses need

OpenAI seems to do reasonably well at attracting capital investment without profits.

As did Amazon, Google, Meta etc etc.

	▲	bandrami 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		OpenAI is great at attracting people who say "yeah, sure, I'll give you capital at some point in the future" who then never actually give them the capital (or at least haven't yet).