Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

About this episode

Ed Zitron discusses the financial pressures on OpenAI and the implications for Oracle.

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how OpenAI must grow its revenue by 1000% in the next three years and raise at least another $200 billion for it to be able to pay its compute deals with Oracle and other providers, and how Oracle dies if OpenAI fails to pay its bills. This week’s free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/   Premium newsletter out later today - How OpenAI Kills Oracle - save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to  https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Ed Zitron

Topics covered

• OpenAI
• Oracle
• revenue growth
• compute deals
• technology

Keywords

• OpenAI
• Oracle
• revenue
• compute
• technology
• Ed Zitron

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Oracle, Cool Zone Media, iHeartPodcasts

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