U.S. media breaks the news! "A year of losses or up to 5 billion dollars '

According to reports and analysis, OpenAI is currently able to earn about $2 billion annually through ChatGPT, and is also expected to earn nearly $1 billion through large language modeling fees. According to recent data, OpenAI's total revenue for a month is around $283 million, and its annual revenue is estimated to be between $3.5 billion and $4.5 billion. Therefore, the "information network" judgment OpenAI company's annual loss may be as high as $ 5 billion, its cash flow may be exhausted in the next year. In this case, OpenAI may have to start another round of financing.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the Microsoft Build conference on May 21, 2024 local time. (Visual China)

The Washington Post published an article on the 24th, said that although a group of technology giants are strongly betting on artificial intelligence at the moment, Wall Street has already seen the beginnings of a bubble. Recently, Wall Street investment banks including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, as well as venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital, have released research reports expressing concern about the sustainability of the AI "gold rush", arguing that the technology may not be able to generate enough profits to justify billions of dollars in investment.

Pan Hailin, a member of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Information and Communication Economy Expert Committee, analyzed to the Global Times on the 25th that investment in the field of artificial intelligence is the need to adhere to "long-termism", and that the application of OpenAI is still in the stage of research and development investment and is not a "completed body". The application of OpenAI is still in the stage of R&D investment, and is not a "completed body". On the other hand, in the overseas "100 mode war", OpenAI has not yet been able to open the gap with its rivals Claude, Bard, etc. Therefore, Pan and Lin that the artificial intelligence industry may have to go through a round of reshuffling, the survival of the fittest before entering the profit return period, this path and the rise of the past and a lot of Internet platform enterprises is very similar. This path is very similar to the rise of many Internet platform companies in the past.

However, some analysts believe that the AI wave for technology giants "bubble" seems to be bursting. Since July 10 hit the latest peak, as of Wednesday's close, the seven stocks have fallen more than 10%, in the past 10 trading days, the market value has evaporated about 1.7 trillion U.S. dollars.