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Comment by treis

2 days ago

Everyone could raise and build a search engine or social network. Many did and none of them dethroned Google or Facebook.

Google can offer their services for free for a lot longer than OpenAI can, and already does to students. DeepSeek offers their competitor product to ChatGPT for free to everyone already.

  • I don't think that's accurate. They're within the range of profitability on inference today and that's before theyve started selling ads.

Social networks have network effects, the value comes from other people on the network, not the platform itself.