There are an estimated 1 billion knowledge workers worldwide. The alleged operating costs of OpenAI are around $700,000/day. That's $0.25 billion / year. Add to that salaries and retraining. Salaries: 375 employees at an average $350,000 / year comes to $0.13 billion / year. And retraining cost seems to be on the order of tens of millions per training run.
With the right subscription fee it does seem possible to balance the books and be profitable. Especially when they start selling bulk contracts to governments and schools and big corporations.
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It seems possible for OpenAI to be profitable.
There are an estimated 1 billion knowledge workers worldwide. The alleged operating costs of OpenAI are around $700,000/day. That's $0.25 billion / year. Add to that salaries and retraining. Salaries: 375 employees at an average $350,000 / year comes to $0.13 billion / year. And retraining cost seems to be on the order of tens of millions per training run.
With the right subscription fee it does seem possible to balance the books and be profitable. Especially when they start selling bulk contracts to governments and schools and big corporations.
"There are an estimated 1 billion knowledge workers worldwide. The alleged operating costs of OpenAI are around $700,000/day."
And they're all our customers! I've seen pitch decks like that.
How many paid users do they have?