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MrDarcyyesterday at 8:49 PM5 repliesview on HN

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft aren’t profitable?


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notyourworkyesterday at 9:02 PM

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

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wolfram74yesterday at 10:20 PM

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?

josefxyesterday at 9:15 PM

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

dangusyesterday at 10:25 PM

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.