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Ask HN: Are companies making money by using AI?

1 points by vanh4lt ↗ HN
AI news is focused on the same companies improving their models. But I am really interested in getting opinions about companies that are actually making money by using AI, either by granting access to Claude or by including some sort of AI feature in their products.

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andsoitis
If you don’t embrace AI you stand very high chance of being irrelevant in the future.
soon_to_be_sb
If you embrace AI, you lose most of your skills in a couple of years, and then you become irrelevant anyway..

If you don't, at least you retain your experience.

bradknowles
There are companies making money in this business. They have names like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc….

Then there are other companies in this business who are also making money. They have names like Amazon, Google, Meta, etc….

Then there are some more companies who are making money in this business. They have names like NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, etc….

Now, how much profit any of them are making, compared to their costs and their committed outlays, that’s a different matter.

But while you’re riding that bubble, it is vital that you always sell the crap out of those shovels, so that you can keep making that bubble bigger.

ares623
We pray to OpenAI for giving us this gift of subsidized tokens. We thank Anthropic for giving us this gift of subsidized tokens.

May the tokens be everlasting.

Amen.

vanh4lt
My question goes exactly beyond the companies you mentioned, which are related to AI models.
ungreased0675
As a product manager, AI made my developers happier, but the product didn’t launch any faster.
segmondy
Some are making money, some are losing money, some see no difference.
basitanwer
In an e-commerce application, for example, it helped me categorize products, detect spam in reviews and listings and help with designing user interfaces. These are everyday uses where it can save time and reduce manual work.

The features are kind of hidden out and not public but it would be interesting if businesses publish these numbers out.

dangerface
No, it seems to help lower costs but it doesn't seem to help with revenue generation.