It seems to me that there is a tight connection between the timing of this IPO and the windfall demand for their data from AI companies. The advertising and subscription revenue business models have not improved.<p>Edit: from the prospectus
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Data Licensing
Reddit is one of the internet’s largest corpuses of authentic and constantly updated human-generated experience. In an increasingly data-driven world, we recognize that this information is increasingly important for a multitude of different uses and applications. We believe the internet should work for consumers and they should be able to find the information they need or experiences they want. And, organizations need to prioritize sources of real-time human perspectives—from a company looking for feedback on a new consumer product to investors trying to capture market sentiments or signals—and Reddit provides a differentiated solution. Reddit data and information constantly grows and regenerates as users come and interact with their communities and each other in genuine and authentic ways. We expect our growing data advantage and intellectual property to continue to be a key element in the training of future LLMs.
We are in the early stages of allowing third parties to license access to search, analyze, and display historical and real-time data from our platform:
•Data API Access. Customers can pay to access real-time data streams of anonymous, public discussion on Reddit via data APIs once they exceed certain rate limits. These data APIs are able to provide real-time access to evolving and dynamic topics, such as sports, movies, news, fashion, and the latest trends, unlocking customer use cases such as building third-party applications, behavioral analysis, and algorithmic trading.
•Model Training. Reddit data is a foundational piece to the construction of current AI technology and many LLMs. We believe that Reddit’s massive corpus of conversational data and knowledge will continue to play a role in training and improving LLMs. As our content refreshes and grows daily, we expect models will want to reflect these new ideas and update their training using Reddit data.
“<p><a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024010137/reddit-sx1a1.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...</a><p>So it seems the stock value is speculation on this revenue significantly outgrowing the losses.