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		cool_dude85 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss I think trying to compete with Google in search is a big problem. First you have to deal with all the anticompetitive stuff they can do, since they control email and the browser and youtube etc. Second they could probably stand to cut the price of advertising by 5 times and still be turning a profit. Will ads in ChatGPT be profitable competing against Google search ads at 1/5 the price, hypothetically?

almogo 4 months ago [–]

If they're better - yes. ChatGPT is a very different product from Google Search. Return on Ad Spend could be significantly higher than even Google/Meta/ByteDance can offer.

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