Nick Shippers

*OPENAI MISSED '25 REV TARGET FOR CHATGPT: WSJ Wow. OpenAI not only missed their 2025 revenue target, but they also missed their goal of reaching 1B weekly active users according to WSJ CFO Sarah Friar also reportedly told company leaders that she’s worried the company won’t be able to meet their spending commitments if revenue doesn’t grow faster. “OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year, according to people familiar with the goals. The company still hasn't announced that milestone, unnerving some investors. It also missed its yearly revenue target for ChatGPT as well after Google's Gemini saw massive growth late last year and ate into OpenAI's market share, the people said. The company has also struggled with defection rates among subscribers, according to people familiar with those figures.”

like I’ve said a few times, well within TOS to do this, they built the model, if they wanna give you inference at pennies on the dollar on the condition that you use their harness, great, they have the right to do this. On this topic in particular, I don’t understand the “evil” or “rugpull”, jeers. There was never any promise to give people cheap inference. Before the claude code max plan we were all paying per token to use this stuff. And we’re more or less happy to do it (sure the VC funding helps). Every enterprise I know pays per token because when you use subsidized inference, YOU are the product. “Have some cheap code, in exchange for helping to train the next gen of models” You can hate on that particular behavior if you want but nobody is making you take part in that particular market dynamic. Do I wanna see a world where model companies take some of their massive financial gains and use that to pull everybody up? Of course. I hope it happens some day. An allegory perhaps: If public e-bike company gave you a subscription on rides and you proceeded to around ripping out batteries and sticking them in your own bike and ride around town, you’d get banned for that too. Especially if your bike was poorly wired and overloaded the batteries/cause them to flame up etc. Banning that behavior would deliver far better results for the people who were using the system as designed

GPT-4o got an another update in ChatGPT! What's different? - Better at following detailed instructions, especially prompts containing multiple requests - Improved capability to tackle complex technical and coding problems - Improved intuition and creativity - Fewer emojis 🙃

Would hope you had more important things to worry about (you know the cost of eggs, childcare, veterans waiting for care…could literally go on) but hey since you raised it I purchased these myself to write notes to colleagues and staff to thank them for their work and also to write back to people who wrote me including kids. How dare I!