OpenAI pivots from “do everything” to “please someone pay us for something”

Turns out “we’ll figure out the business model later” is not, in fact, a business model.

Burning cash like there is no tomorrow, facing mounting pressure from Anthropic, and a growing pile of abandoned side projects, OpenAI is rethinking its strategy, if it can even be called such.

The company that launched a video generator, a browser, hardware ambitions, and even a TikTok-style app is now telling employees it needs to stop chasing “side qu…