Why is OpenAI losing so much money?
According to reports, OpenAI is burning cash on compute, model training and infrastructure faster than subscription and API revenue can cover. Projections cited in the press put cumulative losses at roughly $44 billion through 2028, largely tied to the enormous cost of running and training frontier models at scale.
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