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OpenAI's 2025 financials LEAKED

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The video (June 16 morning commentary) focuses on two main AI developments:

  1. Reported/ leaked financial results for OpenAI
  2. The evolving public discussion and governance around Anthropic’s Fable/Claude models, amid security and policy controversies

1) OpenAI financials reportedly leaked: massive losses

The presenter cites a report (credited to Ed Zitron) claiming OpenAI’s financial performance reflects extreme scale losses:

  • 2024
    • Net loss: ~$5.09B
    • Revenue: ~$3.7B
    • Costs/expenses: ~$12.4B
  • 2025
    • Net loss: ~$38B
    • Revenue: ~$13.07B
    • Implied: costs/expenses far outpace revenue

They also note:

  • Subscriptions may look “closer to profitability” depending on how revenue is compared to cost of revenue.
  • The bigger gap is attributed to other major expenses, especially:
    • R&D/training
    • Sales/marketing

The presenter adds they’re interested in Anthropic’s numbers too, speculating Anthropic may run “tighter,” given strategic differences.

2) Anthropic / Fable situation: politics, security, and shifting data policies

The presenter says Fable remains unavailable and that major leaks have not emerged.

They reference White House involvement, framing it as largely a political/power struggle rather than purely technical issues.

Key security claims discussed:

  • Fable allegedly refused initial prompt review of deliberately insecure code
  • Then reportedly complied when asked to fix it
  • Along with additional manual remediation steps

They also highlight that Anthropic’s public explanations appear tied to:

  • Guardrail security
  • Jailbreak prevention
  • A 30-day enterprise data retention policy, reportedly replacing or altering earlier behavior

3) A “vibe shift” in AI discourse: from comedy/psychosis to seriousness

The presenter argues that AI culture is changing:

  • During the GPT-4 era, there were many “AI psychosis” incidents/stories, which they characterize as more comedic/slapstick
  • Newer models are described as more “tame,” leading to fewer dramatic failures

They connect this to broader industry “sobriety”:

  • Demos and hype are fading
  • Companies face tougher engineering realities and slower progress

4) Why Anthropic might be “more credible than it looks”

Using a quote attributed to Ben Thompson (via Stratechery), the presenter claims there’s a growing view that Anthropic’s unusual actions may reflect real belief in its safety mission—not just cynicism.

Summary of the argument:

  • People increasingly think Anthropic is genuinely trying to persuade researchers about safe, responsible deployment
  • Even if messaging can appear inconsistent or strategic, the intent may be sincere
  • There’s also implied business logic:
    • better engagement/data retention
    • improved models over time
    • reduced jailbreak success

5) Agentic/engineering critique: “works on my machine” isn’t enough

The presenter cites a technical perspective attributed to Mitchell Hashimoto (connected to “Ghosty”) criticizing the “it works, who cares what the code looks like” mindset for agents.

Main technical points raised:

  • Agents can mishandle under-specified tasks and make bad assumptions
  • Agents may do fine with unit test coverage, but struggle to deliver cohesive human-facing experiences (e.g., APIs/CLIs/UX consistency)
  • Agents need clearer awareness of:
    • performance tradeoffs (e.g., CPU vs memory)
    • compatibility boundaries
  • These often require explicit design knowledge, not ad-hoc assumptions

Overall takeaway

The video blends:

  • Economic reporting (alleged huge losses at OpenAI)
  • Policy/security commentary on Anthropic’s model release and data practices
  • A broader claim that AI discourse is shifting from hype/comedy toward more grounded engineering and governance concerns

Presenters / contributors

  • Ed Zitron — source of the reported OpenAI financials
  • Main presenter (channel host) — not explicitly named in the subtitles
  • Ben Thompson — Stratechery quote/tweet referenced
  • Mitchell Hashimoto — technical perspective cited

Original video