• brlemworld@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Isn’t it a private company? They could say it’s worth infinity trillion dollars…

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      9 hours ago

      No, not quite. They’re funded by venture capitalists, who put money into investment rounds on the understanding (speculative gamble?) that the company will have a given future value. The last funding round was $6.6bn on the basis that the company will be worth $157bn when it is floated on the stock market. Ed Zitron has quite a good analysis on his page, and also why their business is a complete pile of shite:

      https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

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        8 hours ago

        They still aren’t required to go through SEC regulations and can make up some PR nonsense evaluation.