OpenAI’s $850B Valuation: Because Fuck It, Why Not?
So these clowns at OpenAI are about to close a $100 billion funding round that values the company at over $850 billion. That’s right, billion with a fucking B. Not million. BILLION. For a company that can’t even keep ChatGPT from hallucinating shit about me that I never said.
The lead investor? SoftBank, because apparently Masayoshi Son woke up one morning and thought “You know what? I haven’t burned enough money this decade.” They’re throwing $20-40B into this bonfire, probably because their WeWork PTSD has worn off and they’re ready to get fucked again.
This whole shitshow was supposed to close last year but got delayed because OpenAI’s corporate structure is more convoluted than a fucking Russian nesting doll designed by Kafka. They’ve got this “capped-profit” bullshit where investors can only make 100x their money – because apparently making 100x your investment is “capped.” Fuck me sideways.
The money’s supposedly going towards “AI infrastructure” and that Stargate project – you know, the $500B data center circle-jerk they announced with Trump. Microsoft, Nvidia, and Oracle are all in on this too, because nothing says “sound investment” like joining a cult where the leader thinks AGI is coming next Tuesday.
And get this – they’re losing billions each year. The leadership’s a revolving door of egomaniacs. Their main product has the reliability of a chocolate teapot. But sure, let’s value them at nearly a trillion dollars. Why the fuck not? It’s not like we’ve learned anything from the last three tech bubbles.
The best part? This will supposedly “accelerate AGI development.” Because what the world really needs is a sentient chatbot that can generate shitty poetry faster while using enough electricity to power a small fucking country.
I’m sure this will end well. Just like the last time SoftBank led a massive round on hype. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s only the entire tech industry’s credibility on the line.
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Back in my early days, some suit decided we needed a “redundant” system. Spent $50 million on a backup data center that sat idle for three years. When we finally needed it during an outage, we discovered the geniuses had never actually tested the failover. The whole thing crashed harder than a toddler after a sugar high. We spent 48 hours manually rebooting everything while the CEO screamed about SLA violations. That’s what this OpenAI valuation reminds me of – a $850 billion failover system that nobody’s tested and will probably catch fire the moment we actually need it to work.
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