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OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

it's been an ongoing exit scam

OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman’s other portfolio companies

which reminds me of one of my actual favourite parts of the bayfuckers playacting building companies: how absolutely self-cycling a lot of the funding ends up being. shartups burning fucking piles of money on other, also-VC-funded, shartups. totally normal and healthy way for money to flow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

it's not startup gambling if it's embezzlement