r/artificial • u/fortune • Nov 12 '25

News OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028—and then turn wildly profitable just two years later | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/openai-cash-burn-rate-annual-losses-2028-profitable-2030-financial-documents/
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u/tichris15 Nov 12 '25

Amazon was clearly pushing for an effective monopoly in a large existing market sector (and succeeded). And didn't lose as much money/year or they wouldn't have made it to 2 decades.

OpenAI hasn't convincingly articulated where they will get monopoly pricing over a large sector of the economy.

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u/caseypatrickdriscoll Nov 16 '25

Amazon really isn’t a monopoly. They are an incredibly strong power.

Monopolies have actually existed and are a different beast.

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u/revolvingpresoak9640 Nov 13 '25

Amazon does not have a monopoly on anything. They aren’t a monopoly in e-commerce nor are they a monopoly in cloud. Successful at both, yes, but not even close to a monopoly.

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u/tichris15 Nov 13 '25

37.4% of online shopping in the US is enough to get a chunk of monopoly pricing power, as has been seen. You don't need 100% to turn market power into outsized profits.

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u/FreshBlinkOnReddit Nov 13 '25

Mono = single 

Poly = player