HSBC just dropped a wild number: OpenAI's staring down a $207 billion funding gap that needs plugging by 2030. That's not a typo—we're talking about a financing hole bigger than most countries' GDP. Makes you wonder if the AI gold rush is turning into a money pit, or if traditional finance is finally waking up to how capital-intensive this whole machine learning revolution really is. Either way, someone's gonna need to write some seriously big checks over the next five years.