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OpenAI's Planned Cash Burn
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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Cashburn is like projecting profit but instead of profit you are just going to burn the pool of money you have so much your profits won't mean anything. Anything black on this line is profit, red is cash burn. All companies start in a cash burn state, but if you look at the ones listed, the initial cash burn when they launched was relatively small.
OpenAI is planning to burn more money than most of them profited.
9.3 billion isn't small. 218 billion is just stupid.