OpenAI spends about $700,000 a day, just to keep ChatGPT going. The cost does not include other AI products like GPT-4 and DALL-E2. Right now, it is pulling through only because of Microsoft's $10 billion funding
And payment sharing will most likely be a percentage of revenue and right now their biggest hurdle is just scaling, and it’s incredibly rare that a startup with huge demand completely fails because of scaling challenges. Once they scale their profit margin will be huge, they’d be able to do payouts and still profit. But don’t get excited about payouts, it’ll probably amount to pennies like it does on Spotify.
And payment sharing will most likely be a percentage of revenue and right now their biggest hurdle is just scaling, and it’s incredibly rare that a startup with huge demand completely fails because of scaling challenges. Once they scale their profit margin will be huge, they’d be able to do payouts and still profit. But don’t get excited about payouts, it’ll probably amount to pennies like it does on Spotify.