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OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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That's quite easy, the books are balanced, there are just more debits than credits. "Balancing the books" doesn't mean that the net result is zero, it means that all the money going in and going out is accounted for.
OpenAI can keep bleeding money as long as there are fools willing to fund it in exchange for the illusion of future profits.
You can't have balanced books where there are more debits than credits. That would be out of balance.
Balanced means debits = credits.
I'm not an accountant, but you can certainly balance books while showing a loss. Double-entry bookkeeping simply means that every transaction has two parts, and "balancing" simply means that all the transactions cancel out properly.
I joke with my accountant friends that their entire job is counting to zero.
A loss is not an imbalance of debits and credits, but how much of those debits end up in expenses and the credits end up in revenue.
With no other activity in a period, that is a $1,000 loss funded by cash.
Is a loss funded by borrowings.
Is 0 profit/expense as the sale was marked down to 0 (assuming no cost of sales).
Exactly. My terminology might not be correct, but my point is that their books can be perfectly balanced, and they can also be losing a shit-ton of money, as long as investors keep shoveling money in.
Yeah the terminology
is the opposite of everything discussed above.