OpenAI does not care about money

I've recently been wondering why would OpenAI be ready to charge a ridiculously low fee for each prompt and lose money on it...

If you think the fee isn't low, think again: it would cost thousands of dollars per month to run a computer that's powerful enough to run a model that could respond in seconds. One would need to generate millions of tokens every month to justify such an investment...

Note: I don't have access to OpenAI insider's information and this is all hypothetical, it falls within the category of educated guesses.

So let's say you are starting a new business and face exceptional market fit. You could either charge your users a fair price so you can make a decent amount of money or you could keep it free (almost free) to grow with the least friction possible.

If you choose the second path, the first question to ask yourself is: When is it big enough that you have to monetize and turn a profit ?

For most startups, having 1M users is already big enough to think of either monetization or exit... When you have 100M and you still bleed money, something seems off. Open AI has reached 700M weekly active users at the time of writing and they still plan on losing money!

When you know that Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, clearly stated that he's willing to go all in to reach AGI (A.I is split in three categories, ANI which is what we have today, AGI which is a superior form of intelligence that can reason and understand like humans and ASI which is a Super Intelligence that will look down at us)

Things start to get clearer... OpenAI is not looking for paid users, it doesn't care about our money at all, all it cares about is to attract the portion of the market that wants a special treatment (faster response time, a headstart on the models etc...) but all of that serves only one purpose: Get as many users so they can get the most data possible to train their models and reach AGI faster.

What we should all be focused on is: What would be OpenAI's move once it gets there ?