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the leeway comes from the grotesque fanboyism the company benefits from

they haven't been number one for quite some time and still people can't stop presenting them as the leaders



People said much the same thing about Apple for decades, and they’re a $3T company; not a bad thing to have fans.

Plus, it’s a consumer product; it doesn’t matter if people are “presenting them as leaders”, it matters if hundreds of millions of totally average people will open their computers and use the product. OpenAI has that.


Actually, their speculative value is about 3 trillion. Their book value is around 68 billion. Their speculative value might be halved (or more) overnight based on the whim of the economy, markets and opinion. A company isn't actually worth its speculative value.




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