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no they didn't. What they said was "positive adjusted operating income". The most important word there is "adjusted", ie. they are not profitable if you include all costs
That's "theoretical profit" - in some imaginary world where the free subscribers would pay the top tier cost.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/01/deepseek-claims-theoretica...
but you are taking advantage of a subsidised service. What happens when developers are forced to pay the full price (i.e. $2000 a month instead of $200 a month)
That will only happen when the bubble bursts and those companies will exit by going bankrupt
> NewValue = OldValue >> 3;
You need to be careful, because this doesn't work if the value is negative. A
OpenAI actually burnt $12B in just one quarter (not for the entire year as he claims)
https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/openai-a-i/329108/openai-lost-1...
For instance, if you want to avoid unnecessary copy operations when returning a string, just return it in variable that you pass by reference (eg. void doSomething(string& str);) likewise avoid the vector class making unnecessary copies, simply by creating the objects on the heap and use a vector of pointers instead of values. It's a bit more ugly, but it works, and you don't need to read a 24 page blog to understand all the corner cases where it can go wrong. modern c++ is all about syntactic suger.