Comment by WhyOhWhyQ
2 days ago
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.
2 days ago
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.
On what basis do you say they're within the range of profitability on inference today? Every source I see paints a different story based on their own bias.
Ed Zitron has a bias and a narrative differing from OpenAI's bias and narrative: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Sam Altman said they were.
Your article has 5 billion in inference cost vs 4.5 billion in revenue. That's within the range of becoming profitable.
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