Analysis: OpenAI's Financial Sustainability and Potential Future Bailouts
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Summary
The article criticizes OpenAI's financial sustainability, highlighting Sam Altman's defensive response to questions about the company's $1.4 trillion obligations versus $13 billion revenue. It suggests OpenAI may not be financially viable and hints at potential future government bailouts for AI companies, drawing parallels to the 2008 bank bailouts.
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In a long, but mostly empty answer Altman pointed to revenue that hasn't been reported and that maybe doesn't exist, attacked the questioner, and promised that future revenue would be awesome.
If you thought the 2008 bank bailout was bad, wait til you see the 2026 AI bailout.
We're doing well more revenue than that. Second of all, Brad, if you want to sell your shares, I'll find you a buyer. I just, enough.
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