Sure, but until recently, OpenAI has been a not for profit researching platform.

That means, the R and D would have been written off as a cost of production for this product.

As far as publicly known info, $3 million a year is our best guess at what it costs to run.

Considering the excitement at future utility, I don’t imagine capital will be the constraint for future development.

Even a VERY conservative estimate here yields $4 000 000 a month in revenue which is more than enough to cover expenses and grow.

Very right that this is early days and yes, uninspired, but effective.

There will be new avenues for monetization once it matures. For example, opening the API for a fee would be another strategy that would earn huge dollars for OpenAI and allow some incredible apps to be developed!

Your right, it was just some quick napkin math, I’m not saying it’s guaranteed.

I would however say that even if you said only 10% of users would pay, you are still at $20 000 000.

5% is still $10 000 000.

Imagine having a product better than Google, being able to improve productivity and save hours in your business, and not having to fear that too many people are using it when you need it most.

I guarantee we see more than 5% of users willing to shell out $20/mo for this.

Edit: This is also a product that’s going to continue to get better over time!

So it costs them $100 000/day to run

30 days * $100 000/day = $3 million a month in costs

10 million users * 20% who will buy (Pareto Principle) = 2 million users who buy a subscription.

2 million * $20/month = $40 000 000/ month in revenue.

Assuming I did my math right, that’s some pretty amazing margins and it’s only going to get better!

A great tool big pharma can use to find high CLV targets and market too!

Talk about increasing ROI on marketing!!