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> OpenAI needs 1 trillion dollars in next four years just to keep existing.

More like $115 billion based on your own link. The $1T is a guess based on promises made, far from "needs to spend that much just to exist".

Spending $30 billion a year doesn't sound that apocalyptic.

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> Spending $30 billion a year doesn't sound that apocalyptic.

they have $1000billion in future liabilities. https://www.ft.com/content/5f6f78af-aed9-43a5-8e31-2df7851ce...

they have income of about 4billion a half, with a loss of $13bn.

Those numbers still fall way short of $1T and the $4.3b in rev is only the first half of 2025 - they're projecting $12-13b for the year.

I have my own reservations about the company, but there's a pretty real path toward huge revenues and profitability for them that seems pretty obvious to me.

"signed about $1tn in deals" doesn't have to mean you have $1tn in future liabilities. It depends on what deals you've done.

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