{"id":456760,"date":"2025-12-19T01:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456760\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:51:17","slug":"openai-is-going-into-the-new-year-with-some-real-loser-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456760\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Is Going Into the New Year With Some Real Loser Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI needs more compute. It\u2019s not clear what it expects you or anyone else to do about that, but it would very much like you to know that it needs more compute. In a strange video posted by the company on X<\/a>, OpenAI President Greg Brockman explained with a sense of desperation that demand for its products, like image generation, is making it hard for the company to launch new features and invest in research.<\/p>\n

In the video\u2014which reads like one part justification for the company\u2019s massive investments into data center projects despite having nowhere near the revenue needed to fund the buildout, and one part an attempt to justify falling behind in the AI race on the grounds of being too popular\u2014Brockman basically flags compute as the key to the company\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpenAI did not set out with the thesis that compute was the path to progress. It\u2019s that we tried everything else, and the thing that worked was compute, was scale,\u201d he says, in what could be read as the head of the company trying to insist to investors that if they just let OpenAI spend endlessly, it\u2019ll eventually crack the code that has made generating meaningful revenue so elusive.<\/p>\n

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Compute enabled our first image generation launch (and a +32% jump in WAU over the following weeks) as well as our latest image generation launch yesterday. We have a lot more coming\u2026 and need a lot more compute. pic.twitter.com\/rHfQv1aLKS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 OpenAI (@OpenAI) December 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For now, OpenAI\u2019s compute is capped, and it\u2019s put the company in the unfortunate position of having to make a Sophie\u2019s\u00a0Choice-style decision on which parts of its model it cares about the most. \u201cWhen we had our image generation launch in March that went viral, we did not have enough compute to keep that going. And so we made some very painful decisions to take a bunch of compute from research and move it to our deployment to try to be able to meet the demand. And that was really sacrificing the future for the present,\u201d Brockman explained.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly not lost on OpenAI that the general perception is that it\u2019s fallen behind in the AI race. Following the launch of Google\u2019s Gemini 3 model, which became the talk of the AI space<\/a>, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a \u201ccode red<\/a>\u201d and pushed out a new model to try to make up for lost ground. With that knowledge, it\u2019s hard not to hear Brockman\u2019s explanation as something of an excuse, as if to say, \u201cWe would have loved to have made some incredible breakthroughs, but we had to prop up our very popular slop machine, remember how much everyone loved that?\u201d<\/p>\n

To drive home the point of how important computing power is to the company\u2019s prospects, OpenAI followed up the video with an infographic titled<\/a> \u201cOpenAI\u2019s Compute Flywheel,\u201d showing how more compute leads to better products, which leads to more revenue. That does seem like a better flywheel than its current one, in which it shifts money around between a handful of companies while boosting their bottom line with no obvious indication that money was actually used for anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be ahead of the curve,\u201d Brockman said. \u201cAnd the truth is, I don\u2019t think we will be, no matter how ambitious we can dream of being right now. I think demand will far exceed what we can think of.\u201d Of course, the prospect of just not pouring resources into making slop like Sam Altman with many collars<\/a> or Sam Altman as a sexy fireman on an inaccurate calendar<\/a> is apparently not feasible.<\/p>\n