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Youtube lost billions of dollars of revenue for 5 years after it's been acquired by google. It took a long time to become profitable.

Basecamp didn't even have a way to bill customers when it launched it's first paid offer, they just believed they would figure it out before the first payment triggers.

That's the usual american startup strategy: don't wait until you know how to make money, learn on the way and stay on top. And if you have investor money, burn that to go faster.

The US gov wants the country to keep the lead on AI because they think it's the main tool to dominate tomorrow's world, economically and militarily. So they will facilitate it.

You will see openai bleed money for years and years to come. But given how cheap they managed to make the o model series compared to the beginning (API prices have been slashed!), and knowing I and many others would pay 2 times the current price for it, the problem will be eventually solved.

I don't believe we will reach AGI in the next decade, but saying the models aren't getting better because they haven't in a year just show we got used to the wonders and miracles the tech industry have been pulling off repeatably for so long.

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