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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.

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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