alt Hacker News$100 billion is the best estimate around of how much OpenAI took in investment to build ChatGPT.
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programjames • yesterday at 12:26 AM
Maybe for an Australian billion? But in American English it would be $100 million.
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$100 billion is the best estimate around of how much OpenAI took in investment to build ChatGPT.
Maybe for an Australian billion? But in American English it would be $100 million.
A top of the line consumer desktop, the Mac Pro, costs $7000. The commonly acknowledged first non-mechanical computer, the ENIAC, cost $400,000, which adjusted for inflation is $6,594,153 (see note). Will AI models follow the same pricing trajectory? Probably not but they no longer cost even close to $100 billion.
Note: 1946 CPI = 19.5, 2025 CPI = 321.465 which makes for an increase of 16.49.