[mrweasel]

So I don't necessarily disagree with your suggestions, but that is just not a $1T company you're describing. That's basically a X/Twitter size company, and most agree that $44B was overpaying.

It's not that OpenAI hasn't created something impressive, it just came at to high a price. We're talking space program money, but without all the neat technologies that came along as a result. OpenAI more or less develop ONE technology, no related product or technologies are spun out of the program. To top it all off, the thing they built, apparently not that hard to replicate.

[jsnell]

ChatGPT usage is already significantly higher than Twitter at its peak, and there is a lot more scope activity with explicitly or implicitly commercial intent. Twitter was entertainment and self-promotion. Chatbots are going to be asked for advice on how to repair a dish washer, whether a rash is something to worry about, which European city with cheap flights has the best weather in March for a wedding, and an indefinite stream of other similar queries.