Whatsapp messages are incredibly cheap, while AI queries are expensive to the point nobody wants to pay the actual price of it.
And where is that new industrial revolution? AI revenues are abysmal, costs are astronomical, the integration into our way of working is massively unprofitable, conversion rates are microscopic both in the consumer and enterprise spaces, while even paid users cost a lot of money to companies.
My point is, OpenAI has been around for a decade, the original LLM papers for 8 years, ChatGPT for three years. There is no evidence it's going to even break even, much less be a "new industrial revolution". Research shows using AI does not speed up, and in some cases actually slows down work.
And the problem is, the VC money that can fund the kind of loss leaders you are speaking of is going to run out in six quarters. I don't mean that OpenAI has a six quarter runway, I mean the whole of the US venture capital sector has that. There is literally no time left for anything that is only "going to be". This is it. All of it.
That industrial revolution should have come already, at this point this thing is a flop like the Metaverse, only difference it's a much bigger crater.