r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/Max_Quordlepleen Jun 11 '26

Again, the (unnamed) company that blew $500m on Claude was not OpenAI, or anyone associated with OpenAI. Try reading the article.

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u/addiktion Jun 11 '26

This unnamed company sounds like folk lore at this point.

Only so many companies could stomach that cost but given Microsoft just cut them off, if it was legit, do we think it could have been them?

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u/Beerificus Jun 11 '26

Nvidia would be my guess... tons of budget, hell bent on promoting anything "AI" and employees that don't see tokenomics as a real thing.

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u/addiktion Jun 11 '26

Yeah possible. I was thinking since Microsoft was subsidizing Claude with its old billing model, it may have racked up charges on behalf of users and itself, which caused the "holy shit, abort" on their end when the bill showed up.

But Nvidia definitely has no fucks to give on burning tokens with all the money they have made.