What companies are making money on AI?

A super common business technique is to have an introductory price for a product and raise it after a lot of people are invested in it.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/openais-latest-ai-cost-more-214758857.html

OpenAIs latest query costs about $1000 per

https://forum.cursor.com/t/from-enthusiasm-to-disappointment-the-500-query-limit-is-stifling-cursor-ais-potential/15704

people aren’t willing to pay a lot

https://guides.lib.usf.edu/c.php?g=1315087&p=9678779

for hallucinations.

https://www.ciodive.com/news/tech-budget-growth-price-hikes-gartner-spending-forecast/737895/

tech spend to go up 10% for AI

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/nvidias-blackwell-ai-chip-will-cost-more-than-30000-ceo-says.html

the latest chip has $10 billion in development costs

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/running-2000-nvidia-ai-gpus-costs-2m-in-power-annually-in-texas/

millions in power

https://thebulletin.org/2024/12/ai-goes-nuclear/#:~:text=Microsoft%2C%20Amazon%2C%20and%20other%20tech,be%20developed%20by%20Kairos%20Power

including investing in nuclear power to support new datacenters

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/the-microsoft-365-copilot-launch-was-a-total-disaster/

to pay for it Microsoft is raising prices

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-earnings-ai-azure-copilot-7d11b44d6c0eecae11bdbb4327ae85f5

they’re earning $10 billion per year

https://www.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1htntkj/just_in_microsoft_is_set_to_spend_80_billion_on/

and spending $80 billion

it‘s a massive house of cards about to come tumbling down

What companies will survive actually needing to make money?