And just like that, the bubble burst.
OpenAI to Take a Percentage from Customer AI-Assisted R&D Outcomes
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#12Does this mean I get to take a cut for assisting their training data?
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#13This sounds like the "idea guy" claiming you owe him money after you do all the work.
It's a step removed from that. It's a guy saying he's one hell of an idea guy and will be rich in the future.
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#14People are way misinterpreting OpenAI’s intentions here. The idea is that OpenAI could propose to enter into joint ventures with industry partners where each side gets a share of the rewards generated by the joint activity. This is would only happen in the cases where it’s an attractive proposition to both sides.
Why would it ever be attractive to the other side?
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#15How will they enforce this? The content coming out of the LLM cannot have copyright.
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#16People are way misinterpreting OpenAI’s intentions here. The idea is that OpenAI could propose to enter into joint ventures with industry partners where each side gets a share of the rewards generated by the joint activity. This is would only happen in the cases where it’s an attractive proposition to both sides.
Why would it ever be attractive to the other side?
From the pharma side, I have heard discussions with other technology companies who insisted on a share of discovery revenue. Nothing has ever killed discussions so quickly.
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#17Matt Levine (Dec 2025), https://archive.is/S3MPq
> Your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI”.. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.
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#18People are way misinterpreting OpenAI’s intentions here. The idea is that OpenAI could propose to enter into joint ventures with industry partners where each side gets a share of the rewards generated by the joint activity. This is would only happen in the cases where it’s an attractive proposition to both sides.
Why would it ever be attractive to the other side?
You're right that its only in rare circumstances that it is attractive to the other side and in fact OpenAI has yet to announce any such deal.
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#19This sounds like the "idea guy" claiming you owe him money after you do all the work.
It's a step removed from that. It's a guy saying he's one hell of an idea guy and will be rich in the future.
It’s an ex boyfriend saying “you’re nothing without me!” As he demands gas money for his car from the duration of the relationship, during the breakup
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#20This sounds like the "idea guy" claiming you owe him money after you do all the work.
Except in reverse: now the idea guy gives prompts and AI does all the work.