OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

Critical analysis of OpenAI's business strategy, arguing the company lacks focus and direction despite massive funding. The piece examines OpenAI's scattered product announcements across social media, productivity tools, hardware, and advertising, while highlighting that ChatGPT subscriptions remain its primary revenue source. The author contends OpenAI operates like a typical AI startup with unsustainable R&D spending, commoditized products, and inherent technical limitations like hallucinations. Revenue growth is reportedly slowing while costs exceed income, with the company spending 150% of H1 2025 revenue on R&D that produced underwhelming results like GPT-5 and expensive-to-operate Sora 2.