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by energy123 134 days ago
There was some credible analysis that I don't have the link to which estimated 50% gross margins for OpenAI, largely eaten up by operational expenses. So not awful unit economics, but not good either.

Assuming that's even true, the big asterisk is uncertainty around efficiency gains in the future. The intelligence divided by cost ratio is changing very quickly. It is hard to make confident predictions more than 3 months out.