ChatGPT and other AI-powered products from OpenAI are making the company a lot of money, but not enough simply because the cost of training and maintaining neural networks exceeds these earnings. The Information reports that it is burning through earnings and investment funds at a tremendous rate.
In particular, it is stated that OpenAI has already spent more than $8.5 billion on training AI and hiring personnel, and the next financial report may well show an operating loss of $5 billion. ChatGPT alone is reported to require more than $700,000 every day for its maintenance due to NVIDIA servers.
Currently, OpenAI’s largest investor is Microsoft, which reportedly could very well buy the ChatGPT authors outright. Let’s clarify that there is currently no information about such intentions.
