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@_winter_wonders A frequently cited example is OpenAI’s Sora, which reportedly incurred extremely high compute costs, widely estimated in the range of up to around $1 million per day, while struggling to match that with sustainable revenue. The product has since been pulled back, often framed as a mismatch between cutting-edge capability and viable unit economics. This connects to the broader pattern in AI commercialization, including the earlier cybersecurity discussion: significant spending is increasingly justified under “safety,” “risk,” or “capability” narratives, even when the underlying economic returns remain uncertain. Source: https://t.co/VTYh7hipAY

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