No one in the AI industry is making money. They are all burning through venture capital just to stay afloat. They don't have viable a economic plan, the pricing they would have to charge in order to make a profit makes the product unappealing to the vast majority of people. So either they continuously subsidize the product in which case they don't make profit, or they charge what they actually need to charge and then they don't have any customers.

It's a no win scenario created entirely by the fact that they are trying to put an in-development technology out into public before it's really ready.

They're doing a Tesla.

Yeah...and I suppose they all hauled ass out of there because their company was doing so incredibly well and they felt super optimistic about the near future?

Also, if you can't make a chatbot BF/GF company profitable, that's a pretty damning signal for the industry as a whole, certainly from an end-user perspective.

So all the rats abandoned ship when they saw that it was sinking. All the AI ships are sinking because there is no way to make it profitable. The operational costs are just too high. I imagine there are a lot of AI company CEOs watching this and deciding whether or not they too should be jumping ship now. Because it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.