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I was interning at a company that made networking gear that was put out of business when their largest customer canceled an order within a week of the delivery date.

The customer ran out of money. In terms of where you are in line of debtors when you haven't even delivered the product to a customer, it's so far back as to be assured you won't get your money.

If the memory makers got a deposit from OpenAI as part of this deal, that is likely to be the only money they will get for any undelivered memory, particularly if OpenAI runs out of capital.