Comment by Yizahi
15 hours ago
LLM monsters are deeply unprofitable, going by the industry hearsay (which is the only thing we have, given ultra secrecy of the LLM corporations). The only two LLM companies which disclosed their finances without lies, were two Chinese corporations and they, unsurprisingly, were deeply in red.
Remember the old saying about boiling a frog? LLM corporations need to make most of their users pay hundreds per month, asap. This is Anthropic increasing temperature regulator under the pot just a tiny little bit. Not the first and not the last time.
it would explain why tech is so hard on forcing it down everyones throats (need to get that scale asap and hope it holds)
I assume the Chinese corporations can operate in the red forever and be subsidized by the Chinese government.
That's true of any company in any country. If you can convince the government that your company is sufficiently important, you can get subsidized.
Their price point goal is a SWE salary.