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weakfish | on: Astral to Join OpenAI
What happens when OpenAI’s burn dries up their cash?
throwa356262 | parent | next
They mysteriously gain a lot of government contracts.

In a completely unrelated event, Donald sues Sam for 10M$ for calling him old, Sam grudingly agrees to pay him 16M$ and a beer.

gmerc | parent | next
That's where taxpayers come in a the ultimate bagholder.
Cthulhu_ | parent | next
They get more money from investors, go public, or get bought.
Fervicus | parent | next
Taxpayers bail them out.
prodigycorp | parent | next
$110B will surely last for at least a year.
ZenoArrow | root | parent | next
Was that $110B in cash? I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on something else (paid for using deals for stock).
morphology | root | parent
That money is going directly to Jensen as quickly as possible to secure OpenAI's place in the delivery queue
prodigycorp | root | parent
The investment version of "can you climb up a falling ladder fast enough to not fall"
sourcegrift | parent | next
RAM prices go down. My hope though is that the period RAM prices stay up will put electron apps out of market.
genthree | root | parent
All the vibe-coded webshitware these companies are putting out seems too be doing the opposite: it's all even more memory- and cycle-hungry than the webshit we were lovingly pooping out by hand for the last decade.
gedy | parent
"We must be regulated to contain the nuclear bomb like power of our products. Oh look it escaped again!", etc