So, you know that friend who—s always asking to —borrow— twenty bucks until payday, but payday never seems to come? Yeah, meet OpenAI. The genius behind ChatGPT is apparently the tech world—s most ambitious mooch, and the latest numbers are the kind of hilarious reality check you get from a brutally honest budgeting app.

A new analysis is making the rounds, suggesting OpenAI isn—t just burning cash—it—s building a bonfire visible from space. The gist? They might not see a profit until 2030, and to even get there, they—d need to find a spare $207 billion lying around. That—s not venture capital; that—s trying to fund a small country—s GDP. The Reddit thread on this is a mix of horrified gasps and popcorn-munching glee, because what else do you do when a company valued in the tens of billions has a business model that makes a lemonade stand look robust?

Let—s put that number in perspective. $207 billion is more than the market cap of Coca-Cola. It—s like needing to buy SpaceX, Netflix, and then a few private islands just to keep the lights on for your AI that sometimes tells people it—s a pirate. I—m starting to think their main product isn—t artificial intelligence, but artificial debt. They—re not training large language models; they—re constructing a large liability model.

The funniest part is imagining the pitch meetings. —So, we—ll need roughly the annual budget of a medium-sized military. In return, we promise more advanced ways for students to avoid writing their own book reports.— It—s the ultimate —we—ll figure out the monetization later— startup energy, just scaled to a level that would give an accountant nightmares. Every time ChatGPT helps me draft an email, I—ll now picture it quietly adding another zero to an invisible tab.

In the end, this is peak internet culture: we—re all happily using this incredible, world-changing tool that is, financially speaking, being held together by hope, hype, and what seems like an infinite line of rich uncles named Microsoft. It—s a reminder that in tech, sometimes you have to lose a mountain of money to make a— slightly smarter chatbot. Keep grinding, OpenAI. We—re all rooting for you, mostly because we—ve grown accustomed to free homework help and are now emotionally invested in your success.