Comment by lelanthran
1 day ago
> OpenAI and others are already profitable on inference (inference is really really cheap)
If it's that cheap I'll soon be doing it self-hosted, or switching to a local provider.
It's a race to the bottom for tokens-providers.
It is that cheap. Look at Deepseek or GLM pricing.
> It is that cheap. Look at Deepseek or GLM pricing.
Then it's a race to the bottom.
Yep.
And unlike competitors, OpenAI has no ecosystem. Just a website and a domain name. Even a VSCode fork like Cursor is an improvement over that state.
Google pays over 15% of search revenue to be the default search engine on various browsers.