That isn't a fair comparison. Winrar has been here for decades, while OpenAI is relative new. Give OpenAI 2 decades of time and we can then see it loss 5 trillion dollar.

Fewer people have been driven to suicide by WinRar

Well maybe OpenAI has only made 0 dollars now. But, give it a few years and its sure to make at least $000,000,000,000.00.

To be honest I am more profitable than OpenAI. My salary covers my expanses and I still have some money left at the end of the month. Can Sam Altman say the same about OpenAI?

WinRAR sells a successful and effective product to companies. AFAIK, their main business is B2B.

I really love desktop applications. They do their job, you install it and it's done. And you can work towards next version and such while people can decide to not upgrade.

Now everything is cloud, they only maintain one version, they can change it whenever, you can't get any say, and have to always agree on their policies. And have Internet connection.

If I could make money making desktop applications, I would love that job. Everything is web and AI now

Winrar never made me go crazy and kill myself

The time I put some money to see how options worked and lost it all was more profitable than OpenAI. I only lost some $300.

The Metaverse is was more profitable than OpenAI. Pets.com was more profitable than OpenAI.

Did they ever found that guy that bought that WinRAR license? It's one of a kind and must be worth a lot more now.

I really wonder how many people pay for LLMs. I used to have my company pay for one product but that was company money. hard for me to believe I would've ever spent my own money on that. Unless it was $20 a year instead of $100, I guess then maybe I would have. I think the fact that every tech company is cramming LLMs for free into every product is a sign that most people wouldn't pay for them.

Not only more profitable, but more valuable as well. Not that it's particularly valuable.

I'm more profitable than OpenAI. Just me, working my shitty, dead end job.

I want the numbers