Will OpenAI be the next tech giant or next Netscape?
- lastmansurfing
- Dec 16, 2025
- 1 min read

Three years after ChatGPT made OpenAI the leader in artificial intelligence and a household name, rivals have closed the gap and some investors are wondering if the sensation has the wherewithal to stay dominant.
Investor Michael Burry, made famous in the film "The Big Short," recently likened OpenAI to Netscape, which ruled the web browser market in the mid-1990s only to lose to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Yet ChatGPT was a tech launch like no other, breaking all consumer product growth records and now boasting more than 800 million -- paid subscription and unpaid -- weekly users.
OpenAI's valuation has soared to $500 billion in funding rounds, higher than any other private company.
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