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Alphabet (Google) made $102.35 billion in revenue last quarter, not $100bn in profit.

Also most of it is from ads, not from their AI or cloud products. I wonder when OpenAI will start to serve ads as much as Google does, they certainly have people's attention a lot of times throughout the day looking at how people around me use their services.

I find it funny that people think OAI can enter the ad business and just compete easily with Google, given the years Google has had investing in research etc to build the behemoth it is today in the market for online advertising.

By the time OAI even figures it out, they will have run out of funding. All they can do now is prop up usage numbers to signal to investors that their market position is durable.

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