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OpenAI is losing three times more money than it earns, with 95% of ChatGPT's 800 million users not paying for the service. The company posted a $13.5 billion net loss in the first half of 2025 against $4.3 billion in revenue, while committing over $1 trillion in datacenter spending through partnerships with Nvidia, AMD, and others. Despite ChatGPT generating 70% of OpenAI's recurring revenue and dominating 80% of generative AI web traffic, the company faces significant challenges converting free users to paid subscribers, with only 5% currently paying compared to an industry average of 3%.

ChatGPT: so popular, hardly anyone will pay for it

We are programmers here, we use Claude, not that joke-for-armatures called ChatGPT. Not a serious product at all.

I cannot wait till in 4-6 years time from now when average consumer goods run LLM’s locally fast. Then cloud llm’s loose the point completely… But Big Sam must have considered that 🙃

ChatGpt will be the new WinRAR, won’t it?