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		loandbehold 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss Users' chat history is the moat. The more you use it, the more it knows about you and can help you in ways that are customized to particular user. That makes it sticky, more so than web search. Also brand recognition, ChatGPT is the default general purpose LLM choice for most people. Everyone and their mom is using it.

chrischen 4 months ago | [–]

Walling in my personal data would be a sure sign way to get me to not use OpenAI.

remarkEon 4 months ago | | [–]

Is there a way, today, for me to move the project folders I have in the paid version to another AI product?

what 4 months ago | [–]

Gemini is probably the default general purpose LLM since its answers are inserted into every google result.

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