Economy
OpenAI's Reported Deficit and Whether Generative AI Can Pay Off
Japanese netizens reacted to a report that OpenAI faces a business deficit of about ¥43.6 trillion. The figure is actually a Financial Times projection of cumulative negative free cash flow through 2030, not a confirmed single-year loss. The loudest voices doubted whether such spending could ever be recouped, while others defended it as the price of growth or of dominating AI. Rising memory and GPU prices at home gave the debate an added edge.