Sort of? Google and YT (which was google soon enough) had something called a “business plan” where they grew after they got new business - enough to “justify” growth.

Also, it was easy to see how they could turn a profit and how the pricing would work, which made it like every other business in the world.

With open AI, they set a price based on “feels” and it’s far too low to pay for the computing costs. Then they offered it free to everyone. And they only burn money, there’s not enough money coming in to pay anyone.

The thing is... uh... NO ONE LIKES AI. Regular people don't like when a technology is shoved in their face over and over and over without their consent so they're forced to use it. Google and Youtube were actually compelling things for the consumer and had real world usage. AI has very little actual real world usage because it's a text prediction algorithm that does not do anything that other things today wouldn't be able to.

The only people that like AI are TESCREAL-supporting billionaires who genuinely think LLMs will achieve AGI and thus replace humanity (refer to this video to know how absolutely INSANE those idiots are) and their right wing simps. Pretty much everyone in the creative, educational, and programming field that have actual coding experience hate it because it's literally making people dumber AND taking away jobs from artists AND creating programmers with no actual coding experience.