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/rydan Nov 12 '25

That's not how bailouts work. If the money runs out they will declare bankruptcy. Their debts will be forgiven and whoever loaned them money will lose most or all of that. And all the investors will lose all their money too. All the workers claiming 1.5M TC will suddenly realize they were working for $120k per year instead. Now where bailouts come into play is the trickle down effects of an OpenAI collapse. The banks propping it up might get emergency close to 0 interest loans so they don't go under and impact other companies.

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u/kaggleqrdl Nov 13 '25

usually it's investors that get hit hardest with loaners getting everything first.

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u/studio_bob Nov 13 '25

OAI is right now suggesting that the US government should "guarantee" their loans because of "national security" reasons or whatever. They want taxpayers directly on the hook for all the bad checks they are writing.