"profitable on inference" means "marginal costs of inference are lower than revenue". It is very common to distinguish between upfront costs vs. marginal costs when judging the economic viability of a business.

You mention "debt servicing", but OpenAI has no debt. All the money they have raised is equity not debt.

There's been a huge amount of improvement in coding agent effectiveness since they ran that experiment. In a more recent follow up experiment, METR found 20% speed up from AI assistance and says they believe that is likely an underestimate of the impact. https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/

They are working on making a new measurement approach that will be more accurate.

You can use the "cameo" feature only with users who have gone through the cameo creation flow. Sama has an account and created a cameo likeness of himself. When you create your cameo you can choose who is allowed to make videos using it: "only me", "people I approve", "mutuals", or "everyone".

That's hiring for a role buying ads, not selling ads. i.e. this is ChatGPT buying ads on other platforms to promote ChatGPT.

Yes they do: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ljery5/gemini_just...