[gizzlon]

> Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion .. That is, OpenAI spent 44% of their revenue on sales and marketing!

Anyone know what they are spending this on? Can't remember seeing one OpenAI ad.. Is it just pr and influencers? Ads in the US?

[9cb14c1ec0]

If it actually was spent on ads, it seems to me OpenAI would have to be one of the single biggest ad buyers in the world. Almost certainly they are using a somewhat broad definition of sales and marketing to cram a bunch of expenses into it to make some other category look better.

[zyuiop]

Likely free tokens to attract customers

[shaewest]

I've easily gotten (low) hundreds of OpenAI youtube ads. More recently they've been pushing 'Free OpenAI Image generation' to me, in the past they pushed Codex more, but I have a sub for that now, so I guess it works.

[chillfox]

Bribes and subsidies is my guess