And who actually makes that much?

Or are you counting also VC money into that "profit"?

And pretty much most of them just resell OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/Meta's APIs and model access, with something repackaged on top.

And none is remotely profitable.

And which use case will that make sense then for?

Esp. when they aren't even sure whether they will commit to offering this long term? Who would be insane enough to build a product on top of something that may not be there tomorrow?

Those products require some extensive work, such a model finetuning on proprietary data. Who is going to invest time & money into something like that when OpenAI says right out of the gate they may not support this model for very long?

Basically OpenAI is telegraphing that this is yet another prototype that escaped a lab, not something that is actually ready for use and deployment.

Just going to put this here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/

Costs money (travel) and time (company's) plus a lot of this is outsourced to agencies to do the screening.

Yes, it is disgusting. Sadly also very common.