The Graveyard Of OpenAI’s Dead Products And Incomplete Deals

As it announces one of the biggest funding rounds in history, OpenAI has trumpeted hundreds of billions in other deals and products—including Sora—that haven’t yet become reality.

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This is important context in the wake of yesterday’s “raise” announcement. A lot of this stuff seems to just quietly never happen once the ink on the PR puff dries.

The AI industry increasingly looks in scramble mode to keep the hype going as those storm clouds of financial and business reality get darker and darker on the horizon.

Anthropic does look healthier, with their enterprise focus. Or am I missing something?

> healthier

Correct. As compared to other AI companies. Tangible product, specific market segment and stable user base.

But whether it is worth a trillion dollars (like some of the peers are pretending to be) is yet to be seen. A lot of companies are using Anthropic products, but whether the spend is worth it, is also yet to be seen. A more realistic end state for Anthropic would be that they’d enterprise customers, with limited but steady spend due to Anthropic finally having to stop subsidizing tokens and a valuation in around $200-350B.