Many here are not accounting for other costs such as training, fine-tuning, inflated salaries and most importantly the competition from either other cloud-based AI models and especially $0 or close to free AI models and their services.

Eventually, they will catch up and GPT-5 will take much longer to train and right now, they currently cannot raise prices as their current AI models begin to degrade.

2024 is extremely unlikely, but the AI bros reacting here that it is fine to burn $2B+ a year over a $10B investment with rapidly increasing costs for one AI model with no sight of profitability is beyond amusing. (and of course the AI bros flagged the post)

The only result I can predict is that OpenAI will have to IPO with in the next 4 - 6 years or Microsoft just 100% acquires them.