Comment by coldtea

10 hours ago

Even the pay per use is heavily VC subsidied at current prices.

All indications are that inference for API use is margin positive for Open AI and Anthropic not the subscription.

It will basically cut the hobbyist out and entrench large corporations that can pay the real costs.

If that happened and I was working for myself, I would just buy the beefiest computer I could finance and do everything locally.