alt Hacker NewsWhy are we treating OpenAI and Anthropic differently than say, Amazon or Uber? Both companies invested in growth for many years before making a profit. Most tech companies in the last 2-3 decades lost money for years before making a profit.
Why are we saying that OpenAI and Anthropic can't do the same?
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Two reasons. They somewhat broke even, and kept getting investment. The potential for quasi monopoly was obvious.
Openai can't claim either.
>Most tech companies in the last 2-3 decades lost money for years
Yes
>before making a profit.
No
It's not even remotely comparable. Uber burnt some $30B over a decade or so.
> Why are we treating OpenAI and Anthropic differently than say, Amazon or Uber?
The dame Uber that lost close to 30 billion dollars over 10 years to subsidize its price dumping?
No, no we are not treating OpenAI differently than Uber
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Amazon had a clear business model. They had positive gross margin from, if not day 1, then pretty close to it.
I remain skeptical of Uber.
Sure, maybe OpenAI and Anthropic will make it work. It's not impossible. But it's far from guaranteed.