[infamous-oven]

It's really hard to be a generalist and better than all the specialists at everything. OpenAI wants to focus on the G in AGI, and optimizing for ecommerce is just not that interesting to them, so of course it can't compete with Walmart.

[hadlock]

openai has.... I'm not sure but let's say 500m free users, and it's not unreasonable to assume they eventually hit 1b. That is a lot of advertising revenue, which is what powers companies like Google and even smaller companies with only 300m users like Twitter. If ecommerce isn't a major focus for OpenAI then their board members are asleep at the wheel.

[MBCook]

And yet that’s what all the AI boosters are claiming.

What do you know. Reality does t match.

I wonder if returns on ChatGPT purchased items are also higher.

[bwestergard]

Good luck with that at the shareholder meeting.