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		nilsbunger 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss I think the biggest risk to ChatGPT as a consumer brand is that they don’t own the device surface. Google / Microsoft / Apple could make great AI that’s infused in the OS / browser, eliminating the need to go to ChatGPT.

eucyclos 12 days ago [–]

Since microsoft kinda sorta owns or is merging with openai it's probably already close to that... copilot is constantly down for me at least, but I assume that's not a hard thing to fix on Microsoft's end if it wants to start paying the server costs...

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