{"slug": "ask-hn-do-you-know-any-company-that-s-making-money-with-llms", "title": "Ask HN: Do you know any company that's making money with LLMs", "summary": "A Hacker News user challenged the community to identify companies generating real profits from LLM-based products, excluding firms selling infrastructure to AI developers. The user, who described themselves as an \"LLM-skeptic,\" requested examples of fully automated SaaS businesses with proven profitability rather than future profit promises.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nI am an LLM-skeptic: I think it’s an insanely good technology, propped up by the most egregious financial scam of all time.\nI would be open to be proven wrong though, so please: can anyone point at decent, profit making implementations of LLMs in companies? Can you point at a fully automated saas that’s actually turning a real relevant profit?\nNo, the promises of future profits don’t count. And no, the companies profiting from selling shovels to gold rushers also don’t count.\nThanks | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-know-any-company-that-s-making-money-with-llms", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409315", "published_at": "2026-06-05 07:40:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-05 07:47:04.278700+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-startups", "ai-products"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-know-any-company-that-s-making-money-with-llms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-know-any-company-that-s-making-money-with-llms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-know-any-company-that-s-making-money-with-llms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-do-you-know-any-company-that-s-making-money-with-llms.jsonld"}}